Thursday, September 9, 2010

And the day was saved byyy…. Facebook!



Murphy’s Law - Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.


Ms. Shameela had a brilliant idea to get pictures of the kids and blow them and display them in the foyer of the auditorium on the night of the concert. Since we needed really good quality photos I contacted my friend’s sister, Natalie Soysa, who is a professional photographer. She agreed to do it for free but we had to organize transport for her. So I told Ms. Shameela to organize a school van to go pick her up on Thursday since the group was planning to go to the hospital on Thursday, our first visit to the hospital this semester.
Since during these few months of organizing I’ve learnt to double check and that things  WILL go wrong at the last minute I went and checked with Ms. Shameela during lunch…. and found that she hadn’t organized anything! We both went to see Ms. Tanuja… and found out she hadn’t booked a van for Hope for Kids to go to the hospital! Ms. Shameela quickly ran around and sorted out the transport after a lot of begging and sweet talk.
Meanwhile I had to get in touch with Natalie to inform her of the time the van would be there to pick her up… and my phone died on me! And when I put my sim in Malindie’s phone I found I hadn’t saved Natalie’s number on the sim card’s memory. So I tried Facebook for Natalie’s number and then sent her a message hoping to god she’ll be on Facebook….
Malindie was busy Googling her and going through her Flicker, Twitter and Facebook for the number. She even tried online telephone directories! And I was next to her texting people hoping they’d know some way I could get in touch with her and calling all sorts of people to ask if they knew someone who knew someone who knew someone who might know Natalie’s number….
And then she replied on Facebook!
So after a few complications we all got to the hospital… to find the playroom padlocked and no one had the key! So we got some kids to come down and we played with them in the garden. We learnt that the playroom had been shut for three months now since the teacher we employed had a baby and she hasn’t been coming. It’s really not fair to expect her to come but we have to find a new teacher soon. They playroom can’t be shut up depriving the kids of some place to play.
Natalie was taking pictures of the kids… and some attendant starts yelling and making a scene that we can’t take pictures! I tried explaining to him that we had the director Dr. Kanisha’s permission but he kept insisting for a form. So I got Ms. Shameela on the phone and he calmed down. Finally.

But we had a nice time with the kids and I’m sure we got some lovely pictures. When we went up to the ward me and Thishakya saw a child not even a year old and we both felt so sick. A child that young having cancer! I held a little girl who had leukemia and I felt so sorry for her and the mother. The girl had the most beautiful eyes.

Really, we have no right to complain about life. 

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