The View from Seven Feet

Last night we hosted  2 boys from Nepal at our home.  Deepesh and Suresh are part of the Children of the World Choir, which was performing at my daughters school.  The choir, which consisted of 13 boys and girls from Uganda, Nepal, and Guatamala, are on an 11 month tour of US cities raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic in Africa.  All the choir members live in Christian run group homes and orphanages in their home countries.  All of them have lost one or both of their parents at young ages, and were placed in the Christian group homes by other relatives.  I have a new appreciation for those who “care for the least of these” in the forgotten places of the world. 

We did our best during our sleepover to help these two 10-year old boys have a great experience with our family.  We ate pizza (which they covered in the hottest hot sauce that we had), rode bikes, roller bladed, and splashed around in our hot tub.  And, interestingly, when we settled in to watch a movie before bed, they chose Disney’s High School Musical.  And these boys, from a tiny town in the Himalaya mountains, new all the words and sang out the songs!!  I guess High School Musical actually is a world wide phenomenon.