Down Under Calls... Thursday, August 23

I got "the call" today... the call from my two donators to the Lil' Sistas Project from Australia.

It was the two young teens, one pre-teen actually, and their father who called me.  I anticipated it at 7pm and it was pretty much right at 7pm on the dot that my computer notification popped up.  Someone was video calling me.

Video call?!  Oh gosh.

I was sitting there in a towel.... oh gosh.

I quickly wrapped my legs in the towel and threw on the sweater that was draped over my chair.  As luck would have it, the sweater was the Lil' Sista Hoodie.  Perfect.  How appropriate, how humorous. 

Call accepted.

On popped the video screens, one of them and one of me.  We waved, said hi and I had to giggle at how cool I thought this was.  I've never actually video called anyone on the computer since video chatting with my ex-fiance back in the day, when I first moved to Korea.  Now here I was video chatting with these two kids and their dad.  

We didn't talk long, maybe about 20 minutes, and I tried to be motivating to them and tell them more about the Lil' Sistas Project.  Their father will be visiting the Philippines in the next couple of months so that'll be great to meet him.  It'd be awesome to meet them too though, his kids.  They've been through some hard times, hard times I don't think I'm at liberty to share, but I told them that it's through these hard times that we find strength.  Their hard times have definitely matured them.  What other 12 year boy do you hear donating some of his personal savings to a cause overseas, to help a person he's never met before?!  Exactly.  A 12 year old boy who is well beyond his age in maturity and intellect.  His sister is no different either.  She's shared his hard times.  

The things they've learned through such hard times are things that they just don't teach you at school and there's always good to be find in the bad.  The way I look at it is, if I didn't go through the bad that I did, I wouldn't be here.  I wouldn't be here in the Philippines, able to open up a business called Empowered because, had I opened this years prior, I wouldn't have been empowered myself to do so.  The good in the bad that these kids went through has lead them to cross paths with me and for that I'm forever grateful.  Bless their little hears.  I just wanted to reach out into that computer screen and give them a huge hug.  They really touched my heart.