love and poverty

these are my two words of the day! the biggest part of the whole day was the world hunger simulation. The thing is I knew it was coming and i have experienced it first hand, but it still hits me so deep. I wish i could let out my emotions through my tears, but my eyes are just that tired! for those of you who do not know what this is, we were all divided into four groups. some were set at a very nice table, some(my group) were set at a family home table, the others were set in small shapes on the floor in large numbers and small space. We were then given food. my table had a family style dinner of chicken and sides, the fancy group had the same thing but salad and people waited on them, group three on the floor had rice and beans but had to eat out of their hands, and the last group(the biggest) had two rolls to share. Do you actually know how hard it is to sit there and know the others around you are not eating. We talked about so many things. Can we Share? tried that and it didnt work. Maybe we should eat everything? Maybe we shouldnt? To say the least I am beond full. I just didnt want to see it all go in the trash knowing others would not eat. When this happened in real like in Haiti, I gave my food to the children watching because I knew they would just dig it out of the dumpster later why not save a step? But why could I not do it now? It wasnt fair at all. And then I had to choose a person to bring over to our table and eat. Why me? I looked to my table to help me figure it out and it was hard. I just wanted to scream and just give them all I had. But I finally went to the final group and told them that I could only take one, but that I was not choosing. They decided to send someone who was sick and needed to keep their strength. To sit there and watch Talicha eat was hard. She just cried because she wanted her group to have this too. She asked to be deported so she could smuggle things in. It was just a very real situation. I could go on but i think all has been said. Just take what you need and help when you can! There is real poverty, and myself as a college student am not one!