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href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>268</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-7122131411256269900</id><published>2012-01-29T15:28:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T15:28:11.548+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ser hermano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hermanos maristas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='to be a brother'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uwavutse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marist brothers'/><title type='text'>Qué bonito es ser Hermano. How beautiful is to be a Brother</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pfApTFad5vM/TyUQEG1FKqI/AAAAAAAAA34/P0RWzRXijVo/s1600/SAM_0937.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="124" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pfApTFad5vM/TyUQEG1FKqI/AAAAAAAAA34/P0RWzRXijVo/s320/SAM_0937.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;There isnothing sweeter than hearing a youth calling you "Brother". I am notgoing to say that everything in the life of a Brother is rose-colored; ofcourse not. But there are things in life that may not be paid with money: forexample going to sleep every night knowing that you are at the right place,doing the right work with the right people. Then there are tiredness,infidelities, sins and miseries, of course; but above all is that you're a Brotherto the people, especially to the young people.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Brothersare not part of the Church’s hierarchy, that’s why our institutions or ourpresences are, for many people, the only contact point with the Church. Peoplewho will never enter a parish and far away from any interest in the ecclesiallife, will come to us and entrust us their children’s education even if theybelong to another religion, as it is the case in Bangladesh. We are the friendly,competent, educative, and close face of Jesus to many people.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;After a lotof years being so, I am still enjoying every time someone calls me"Brother". If someone calls you "Father", you cannot callhim father in return, you'll have to call him "Son", but if someonecalls you "Brother", you can call him also brother in a symmetricrelation of fraternity with regard to our common father, the Good God.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ShciiP0st4I/TyUPwB5XT9I/AAAAAAAAA3w/NjCQdZcptaY/s1600/candidates+blessing+%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ShciiP0st4I/TyUPwB5XT9I/AAAAAAAAA3w/NjCQdZcptaY/s320/candidates+blessing+%25281%2529.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;No hay nada más dulce que oír a un joven llamarte “Hermano”.No voy a decir que todo en la vida de un Hermano es de color de rosa; porsupuesto que no. Pero hay cosas en la vida que no se pueden pagar con dinero:por ejemplo irte a dormir cada día con la conciencia de que estás en el lugaradecuado, haciendo lo adecuado con las personas que más te necesitan. Luegoestá el cansancio, las infidelidades, los pecados y miserias, por supuesto;pero por encima está que eres un Hermano para la gente, especialmente para losjóvenes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Los Hermanos no somos parte de la jerarquía de la Iglesia,por eso nuestrasinstituciones o nuestras presencias son, para muchísimas personas, el únicopunto de contacto con la Iglesia. Personas que no pisarán jamás una parroquia yque están lejos de cualquier interés por la vida eclesial, encambio, se acercan a nosotros, nos confían a sus hijos incluso aunquepertenezcan a otra religión, como es el caso en Bangladesh. Somos la caraamable, competente, educadora, cercana, de Jesús para muchas personas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Después de un montón de años siéndolo, todavía me sabe agloria que alguien me llame “Hermano”. Si alguien te llama “Padre”, tú nopuedes llamarle padre a tu vez, tendrás que llamarle “Hijo”, pero si alguien tellama “Hermano”, tú puedes llamarle también hermano en una relación simétricade fraternidad con respecto a nuestro Padre el Buen Dios.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-7122131411256269900?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/7122131411256269900/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=7122131411256269900&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/7122131411256269900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/7122131411256269900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2012/01/que-bonito-es-ser-hermano-how-beautiful.html' title='Qué bonito es ser Hermano. How beautiful is to be a Brother'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pfApTFad5vM/TyUQEG1FKqI/AAAAAAAAA34/P0RWzRXijVo/s72-c/SAM_0937.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-5227212257261184530</id><published>2012-01-26T08:54:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T05:50:14.581+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gracias a Dios'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aupacova'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uwavutse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='God'/><title type='text'>No podemos dejar de dar gracias a Dios. We cannot stop giving thanks to God.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;Two months ago, my niece Cova suffered a terrible car accident. She has been between life and death for weeks, he had a leg amputated. Thanks to the prayers of many people, to the care of the doctors and the courage of her parents, today Cova breathes by herself in long periods, the infection is zero, and the constants are very good. According to the doctors, it’s clear that she understands and obeys to simple instructions; she is able to move her head to where the voice comes from, obeys movements with his right hand, and reacts to simple jokes. She changes her face expression, sometimes tries to express herself, and sometimes turns to sleep… It is almost a miracle. We cannot stop giving thanks to God for his kindness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1ff3TqEUxAE/TyDALwVychI/AAAAAAAAA3o/5Y9xxeMnvZE/s1600/AupaCova.jpg"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1ff3TqEUxAE/TyDALwVychI/AAAAAAAAA3o/5Y9xxeMnvZE/s320/AupaCova.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hace cosa de dos meses, mi sobrina Cova sufrió un tremendo accidente de tráfico. Ha estado entre la vida y la muerte durante semanas, se le tuvo que amputar una pierna. Gracias a la oración de muchas personas, al cuidado de los médicos y a la entereza de sus padres, hoy Cova respira por sí misma en periodos prolongados, la infección es cero, las constantes muy buenas. A juicio de los médicos, ha sido evidente que entendía y obedecía órdenes sencillas, mira, mueve la cabeza hacia donde se le dirige la voz, medio-sonríe a bromas, obedece movimientos con la mano derecha. Cambia la expresión de la cara, a veces intenta expresarse, a veces mueca de contrariedad, a veces se vuelve a quedar dormida…  Es casi un milagro. No podemos dejar de dar gracias a Dios por su bondad.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-5227212257261184530?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/5227212257261184530/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=5227212257261184530&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5227212257261184530'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5227212257261184530'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-podemos-dejar-de-dar-gracias-dios-we.html' title='No podemos dejar de dar gracias a Dios. We cannot stop giving thanks to God.'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1ff3TqEUxAE/TyDALwVychI/AAAAAAAAA3o/5Y9xxeMnvZE/s72-c/AupaCova.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-6299994278086651243</id><published>2012-01-22T15:02:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2012-01-22T15:02:19.942+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Tiritando. Shivering</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Hm0uJOWKghA/TxvOZHWyjGI/AAAAAAAAA2Q/2KtCqzBZjiM/s1600/estudio+en+pirgacha.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Hm0uJOWKghA/TxvOZHWyjGI/AAAAAAAAA2Q/2KtCqzBZjiM/s320/estudio+en+pirgacha.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;As everyyear, we are having cold weather in Pirgacha. The temperature in the morning isaround 5 ° C; then, if there is sun, is okay, if not we feel cold all day long.People have no winter clothing, houses have no insulation, relative humidity isaround 90%, every morning there is thick fog... This makes us really cold. Inthese circumstances I admire once again people’s strength, stamina and guts; asthe students of our boarding school for example, they study and prepare theirclasses shivering in the morning, as you can see in the picture. They even have to putcoats up to the cows to the latest fashion (see another photo). Thank you, Lord, forthe ability of endurance of the people around me, who teach me to be strong,not to complain over nothing, to pull forward in difficult circumstances; theyteach me lots of things, but the truth is that I do not learn.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qAYcYL-Qoyk/TxvOjC0x8II/AAAAAAAAA2Y/NCW9fEtlCeE/s1600/vaca+abrigo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qAYcYL-Qoyk/TxvOjC0x8II/AAAAAAAAA2Y/NCW9fEtlCeE/s320/vaca+abrigo.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;Como cada año, estamos pasando frío en Pirgacha. Latemperatura por las mañanas está en torno a los 5ºC; luego, si sale el sol seestá bien, si no pues a pasar frío todo el día. La gente no tiene ropa deinvierno, las casas no tienen aislamiento, la humedad relativa está en torno al90%, cada mañana hay niebla cerrada... todo esto hace que pasemos realmente frío.En estas circunstancias admiro una vez más la resistencia, el aguante y laentereza de la gente, como los alumnos de nuestro internado por ejemplo, queestudian y preparan sus clases tiritando por la mañana, como puedes ver en lafoto. Fíjate el frío que hará que hasta a las vacas les ponen abrigos a laúltima moda (ver la otra foto). Gracias, Señor, por la fortaleza y la capacidadde aguante de las gentes que me rodean, que me enseñan a ser fuerte, a noquejarme por naderías, a tirar para adelante en circunstancias difíciles; ellosme enseñan montones de cosas, aunque la verdad es que no aprendo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thanks to Gloria for her comment on my previous post.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ah, y gracias a Gloria por su comentario en mi anterior post.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-6299994278086651243?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/6299994278086651243/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=6299994278086651243&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6299994278086651243'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6299994278086651243'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2012/01/tiritando-shivering.html' title='Tiritando. Shivering'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Hm0uJOWKghA/TxvOZHWyjGI/AAAAAAAAA2Q/2KtCqzBZjiM/s72-c/estudio+en+pirgacha.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-1344677107214089861</id><published>2012-01-20T11:44:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2012-01-20T11:46:10.656+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='boys'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='muchacho'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pirgacha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bangladesh'/><title type='text'>Vendió los zapatos para seguirnos. He sold his shoes to follow us</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;It’s beenalmost a month since it happened, and still I can’t wipe it away from my mind.On 29 December the Brothers of the community went to spend two days retreat andrest to the Taizé Brothers house in Mymensingh. There appeared the boy that yousee in the picture. Srabon is his name, 20 years old, belonging to one of the ethnicminorities on Chittagong Hill Tracks, Buddhist. We learned that he had hadproblems with his family and he had been expelled from his village. I startedtalking with him; he was the personified sadness. I concentrated on making himlaugh or, at least, smile, and I got it after a good while, as reflected in thephoto. The next day, once our retreat completed, we went back to Pirgacha. Whatwas not my surprise when arriving at my house, I found Srabon sitting at mydoor, barefoot. He had sold his shirt and his shoes to pay the bus ticket untilPirgacha. I try to make him see that he must return to his village and try toreconcile with his family. I try to give him money for the return. "I donot want your money, I want to stay with you, because you have treated me welland I am comfortable with you," he said. What to do. I discuss the matterwith George and Homrich, the parish priest. “You cannot stay here, this is notthe solution, you have to go back and resolve your problem”. So again I speakwith the boy, and try to convince him. Srabon realizes that he cannot stay,although is difficult for him to accept. I give him money, I put him in a busand he left. I still have in mind the expression of infinite sadness on hisface when the bus was leaving. I don't know what has happened to him. Probably Iwill never see him again. I don't even know if I did well or not sending himback. Perhaps he never returned home and is now rolling out anywhere in Dhaka.Perhaps he just wanted to cheat on us, as someone suggested at that time. I donot know, I really do not know. Forgive me, Lord, if I did wrong. And aboveall, take care of Srabon.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-O353b1mUoTs/Txj_EnwnSuI/AAAAAAAAA2I/4kGZx2QLXJk/s1600/srabon+%25282%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-O353b1mUoTs/Txj_EnwnSuI/AAAAAAAAA2I/4kGZx2QLXJk/s400/srabon+%25282%2529.JPG" width="297" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;Hace ya casi un mes que pasó, y todavía no me lo puedoquitar de la cabeza. El pasado 29 de diciembre nos fuimos los Hermanos de lacomunidad a pasar dos días de retiro y descanso a la casa de los Hermanos de Taizéen Mymensingh. Allí apareció el muchacho que ves en la foto. Se llama Srabon,20 años, perteneciente a unas de las minorías étnicas de Bangladesh en ChittagongHill Tracks, de religión budista. Nos enteramos de que había tenido serosproblemas con su familia y que le habían expulsado de su pueblo. Entabléconversación con él; era la tristeza personificada. Me concentré en hacerlereír o por lo menos sonreír, cosa que conseguí al cabo de un buen rato comoqueda reflejado en la foto. Al día siguiente, una vez terminado nuestro retiro,nos volvimos a Pirgacha. Cuál no fue mi sorpresa cuando, al llegar a mi casa, meencuentro a Srabon sentado a mi puerta, descalzo. Había vendido sus zapatos ysu camisa para pagar el autobús hasta Pirgacha. Trato de hacerle ver que debevolver a su pueblo e intentar reconciliarse con la familia. Trato de darledinero para el viaje de vuelta. “No quiero tu dinero, quiero quedarme convosotros, porque me habéis tratado y estoy a gusto con vosotros”, me dice. Quéhacer. Discuto el asunto con George y con el párroco Homrich. No puede quedarseaquí, esto no es la solución, tiene que volver y resolver su problema. Así quede nuevo hablo con el chico, y trato de convencerle. Srabon se da cuenta de queno puede quedarse, aunque le cueste aceptarlo. Le doy el dinero, le pongo en unautobús y se va. Todavía tengo grabada la expresión de infinita tristeza en sucara cuando el autobús se marchaba. No sé qué ha sido de él. Probablementenunca más vuelva a verle. Ni siquiera sé si hice bien o no al mandarle devuelta. Quizá no volvió a su casa y ahora esté rodando por ahí en cualquierrincón de Dhaka, la capital. Quizá sólo quería aprovecharse de nosotros, comoalguien sugirió en aquel momento. No sé. Perdóname, Señor, si hice mal. Y sobretodo, cuida de Srabon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-1344677107214089861?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/1344677107214089861/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=1344677107214089861&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1344677107214089861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1344677107214089861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2012/01/vendio-los-zapatos-para-seguirnos-he.html' title='Vendió los zapatos para seguirnos. He sold his shoes to follow us'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-O353b1mUoTs/Txj_EnwnSuI/AAAAAAAAA2I/4kGZx2QLXJk/s72-c/srabon+%25282%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-6575533200338514040</id><published>2012-01-14T20:34:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2012-01-14T20:34:21.910+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='charles howard'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hermanos maristas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uwavutse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='superior general'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marist brothers'/><title type='text'>La Cruz del Hermano Charles. Brother Charles' Cross</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Charles Howard: Hermano, Brother, Frère. Rest in peace&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_MkMb6NsKp8/TxGQTarI02I/AAAAAAAAA14/n9zxBn15ylU/s1600/charles+howard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_MkMb6NsKp8/TxGQTarI02I/AAAAAAAAA14/n9zxBn15ylU/s320/charles+howard.jpg" width="260" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;In 1993, after the General Chapter, I was about to leave forthe airport when Brother Charles handed me an envelope containing a gift forme. He told me that the envelope contained the cross which he had worn duringhis 8 years of Superior General, he said that that was a cross containing manymemories and great meaning for him. He also said that he was giving it to me asa sign of friendship, gratitude and union of heart in Jesus and Mary. He also toldme some other very personal, moving things. All this he said in two minutes,and in the simplest way you can imagine. There are things so great that you can’treact; you are disarmed. This is what happened to me at that time. The onlything that occurred to me was to say thanks and break into tears. God bless you,Brother Charles! May the Lord repay everything you have done for us. May theLord repay everything you have done for me, and the emergence of your life inmy life. Not knowing what else to say, I just end this page with the impressionthat the best things that happen in life, you do not know how to explain it.Rest in peace, Brother Charles.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ReB-jO-0z4A/TxGQZQaWtTI/AAAAAAAAA2A/R6fH0TGgmYs/s1600/cruz+de+Charles.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="226" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ReB-jO-0z4A/TxGQZQaWtTI/AAAAAAAAA2A/R6fH0TGgmYs/s320/cruz+de+Charles.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Después del Capítulo General del 93, a punto de salir yopara el aeropuerto, el H. Charles me entregó un sobre en el que había un regalopara mí. Me dijo que el sobre contenía la cruz que él había llevado durante sus8 años de Superior General, que era una cruz que contenía muchos recuerdos ygrandes significados para él. Me dijo también que me la daba como signo deamistad, de gratitud y de unión de corazón en Jesús y María. Me dijo tambiénotras cosas muy personales que me emocionaron. Todo esto lo dijo en dos minutosy de la manera más sencilla que te puedas imaginar. Hay cosas ante las que, porlo grandes que son, no sabes reaccionar; te desarman. Esto es lo que me pasó amí en ese momento. Lo único que se me ocurrió fue decirle gracias y romper allorar. ¡Dios le bendiga, Hermano Charles! Que el Señor le pague todo lo que hahecho por nosotros. Que el Señor le pague todo lo ha hecho por mí, y lairrupción de su vida en mi vida. Como no sé qué más decir, acabo esta páginacon la impresión de que lo mejor que te pasa en la vida luego no sabes cómoexplicarlo. Descanse en paz, Hermano Charles.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-6575533200338514040?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/6575533200338514040/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=6575533200338514040&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6575533200338514040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6575533200338514040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2012/01/la-cruz-del-hermano-charles-brother.html' title='La Cruz del Hermano Charles. Brother Charles&apos; Cross'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_MkMb6NsKp8/TxGQTarI02I/AAAAAAAAA14/n9zxBn15ylU/s72-c/charles+howard.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-5861415628335385012</id><published>2012-01-13T16:17:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2012-01-13T16:17:34.520+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obispo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bishop'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uwavutse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shayestagonj'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bangladesh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bijoy'/><title type='text'>Un obispo como Dios manda. A real Bishop</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;The personyou see on the left, with the cap, is a Bishop: Monsignor Bijoy. He has beenappointed Bishop of the newly created diocese of Sylhet. The diocese has 6priests. The Bishop has not yet a house; he is living in a rented apartmentwhere he cleans and cooks by himself. He has no car, traveling by train or bus.He doesn’t have any Cathedral, or money to build one, nor sources of income.The Christians of the new diocese are mostly workers in the tea plantations,living in subhuman conditions. I have had the privilege to know him last weekwhen he accompanied us to visit the area in which we are going to build thefirst Marist school in Bangladesh. Bishop Bijoy is a holy man, spiritual,alert, smiling, optimistic, unassuming. He has promised us all the support we could need dealingwith people from the surrounding area and with the local authorities. A marvelousperson.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b2Achi1yl2M/TxADoZucskI/AAAAAAAAA1w/mTFYP51oU8s/s1600/shayestagonj+%252811%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b2Achi1yl2M/TxADoZucskI/AAAAAAAAA1w/mTFYP51oU8s/s400/shayestagonj+%252811%2529.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Estudiando los planos de nuestra futura escuela con el Obispo Bijoy. Studying the plans of our future school with Bishop Bijoy&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;Este señor que ves a la izquierda, con la gorrilla, esun obispo: monseñor Bijoy. Le han nombrado obispo de la recién creada diócesisde Sylhet. La diócesis tiene 6 sacerdotes. El obispo no tiene todavía casa,está viviendo de alquiler en un apartamento en el que él mismo limpia y cocina.No tiene coche, viaja en tren o autobús. Tampoco tiene catedral, ni dinero paraconstruirla, ni fuentes de ingresos. Los cristianos de la nueva diócesis son ensu mayoría trabajadores de las plantaciones de té, que viven en condicionesinfrahumanas. He tenido el privilegio de conocerle la semana pasada cuando nosacompañó a visitar el terreno en el que vamos a construir la primera escuelamarista en Bangladesh. Monseñor Bijoy es un hombre de Dios, espiritual, atento,sonriente, optimista, sencillo. Nos ha prometido todo el apoyo que necesitemos con lagente de los alrededores y con las autoridades locales. Una maravilla depersona.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-5861415628335385012?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/5861415628335385012/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=5861415628335385012&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5861415628335385012'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5861415628335385012'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2012/01/un-obispo-como-dios-manda-real-bishop.html' title='Un obispo como Dios manda. A real Bishop'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b2Achi1yl2M/TxADoZucskI/AAAAAAAAA1w/mTFYP51oU8s/s72-c/shayestagonj+%252811%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-2158370544725722364</id><published>2012-01-10T13:53:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2012-01-10T13:53:55.817+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='srimongol'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='plantaciones de té'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='injustice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tea garden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bangladesh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='injusticia'/><title type='text'>Yo también estoy indignado. I am also an indignant</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f2CKbTkBJ2U/TwvrPW13z5I/AAAAAAAAA0s/3oV3cvFiaNE/s1600/sayestagonj+%252813%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f2CKbTkBJ2U/TwvrPW13z5I/AAAAAAAAA0s/3oV3cvFiaNE/s200/sayestagonj+%252813%2529.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Finlay Tea Garden Entrance&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Normally Itry to bring to this blog the good things that God and life offer me. But you'llallow me this time to show my indignation. Last week I visited along with otherpeople the tea plantations that the Finlay Company owns at Srimongol, northeastof Bangladesh. There I have seen that in the 21st century slavery (orsemi-slavery) still exists in the world. Workers in the tea plantations,working 8 hours a day, receive a salary of 48 takas (less than 50 cents of Euroa day). They live in houses (houses?) belonging to the company. They have theright to live in these houses while they work on the plantations, otherwisethey are expelled. It is allowed only one person per family to work in theplantations, implying that the 48 takas are the daily family wage, not theperson wage. We can easily understand that it is impossible to save any money,so that they cannot leave and go to another place; people in the tea gardensstay chained to the Company for ever. If a worker dies, another member of thefamily may take place; there have been cases of children who were studying at secondaryschool, for whom a better future seemed to be open, which have had to drop outof school because their father or mother died and had to replace them on theplantation, else the family would be expelled.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KyB9GypFtOw/TwvrYBDKoLI/AAAAAAAAA00/OMWIHljGz5I/s1600/sayestagonj+%252815%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KyB9GypFtOw/TwvrYBDKoLI/AAAAAAAAA00/OMWIHljGz5I/s200/sayestagonj+%252815%2529.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Beautiful Tea plants&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;All I say ofFinlay Company applies for all other companies having tea plantations inBangladesh. It is a shame; I'm outraged. The Marist Brothers want to dosomething to bring this people out of their plight and are going to build asecondary school for their sons and daughters. It will be a long, difficult andexpensive process, but we will try. They are the poorest of the poor inBangladesh and it is worth it, with the help of God.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nuBRd8XLQZs/TwvrkrJLgcI/AAAAAAAAA08/U6UI948ZJLc/s1600/shayestagonj+%252815%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nuBRd8XLQZs/TwvrkrJLgcI/AAAAAAAAA08/U6UI948ZJLc/s200/shayestagonj+%252815%2529.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Workers' children&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ls7aFcDa9AQ/TwvrHCwVRwI/AAAAAAAAA0k/9sovkL3ItyM/s1600/sayestagonj+%25287%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ls7aFcDa9AQ/TwvrHCwVRwI/AAAAAAAAA0k/9sovkL3ItyM/s200/sayestagonj+%25287%2529.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Workers' houses&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Normalmente trato de traer a este blog las buenas cosas queDios y la vida me ofrecen. Pero me vas a perdonar que esta vez muestre miindignación. La semana pasada he visitado junto con otras personas lasplantaciones de té que la compañía Finlay posee en Srimongol, al noreste deBangladesh. Allí he podido ver que en el siglo XXI todavía existe la esclavitud(o semiesclavitud) en el mundo. Los trabajadores de las plantaciones de tétrabajan 8 horas al día y reciben por ello un salario de 48 takas (menos de 50céntimos de euro al día), haga el clima que haga. Viven en casas (¿casas?) quepertenecen a la compañía. Tienen derecho a vivir en dichas casas mientrastrabajen en las plantaciones, sino son expulsados. Sólo se permite a unapersona por familia trabajar en las plantaciones, lo cual implica que las 48takas son el salario diario de la familia, no de la persona. Se puedecomprender fácilmente que les es imposible ahorrar nada, con lo cual no puedendejar el trabajo e irse a otro lugar; están encadenados a la compañía parasiempre. Si un trabajador o trabajadora muere, otro miembro de la familia puedetomar su lugar; se han dado casos de chicos que estaban estudiando secundaria ypara los que se abría un cierto porvenir, que han tenido que dejar los estudiosporque su padre o madre murió y tuvieron que reemplazarles en la plantación, sino la familia era expulsada.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;Esto que digo de la compañía Finlay es válido paratodas las demás compañías que poseen plantaciones de té en Bangladesh. Es unavergüenza; estoy indignado. Los Hermanos Maristas queremos hacer algo parasacar a esta gente de su penosa situación y vamos a construir una escuelasecundaria para sus hijos e hijas. Va a ser un proceso largo, difícil y caro,pero lo vamos a intentar. Son los más pobres de entre los pobres de Bangladeshy vale la pena hacerlo, con la ayuda de Dios.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-2158370544725722364?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/2158370544725722364/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=2158370544725722364&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/2158370544725722364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/2158370544725722364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2012/01/yo-tambien-estoy-indignado-i-am-also.html' title='Yo también estoy indignado. I am also an indignant'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f2CKbTkBJ2U/TwvrPW13z5I/AAAAAAAAA0s/3oV3cvFiaNE/s72-c/sayestagonj+%252813%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-1745071326410407842</id><published>2012-01-03T15:26:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2012-01-03T15:32:11.052+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kids'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='laughing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='niños'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uwavutse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pirgacha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='llorar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bangladesh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='risa'/><title type='text'>El llorón. The crybaby</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Usually Mandichildren do not cry, unless they have a good reason to do so, as for example whenthey are sick. They never cry on a whim because they have been taught that itwould be useless. The one you see here is an exception. We found him with hisolder brother next to our house crying inconsolably. There was no way ofknowing why he was crying. The funny thing is that the more he cried, the most hisbrother laughed at him; whereupon, after a few moments the kid had no choicebut to stop. It reminded me of times past when we used to do the same in myfamily; when someone cried, others would point out their fingers at him,mocking him (affectionately); the effect used to be immediate: all finished up laughingaloud, including the crybaby.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C81KcA9y-pw/TwLI3uq2YrI/AAAAAAAAA0c/2-ehwO2vFvE/s1600/llor%25C3%25B3n.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C81KcA9y-pw/TwLI3uq2YrI/AAAAAAAAA0c/2-ehwO2vFvE/s400/llor%25C3%25B3n.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;Habitualmente los niños Mandi no lloran, a no ser quetengan una buena razón para hacerlo, como por ejemplo estar enfermo. Nunca lloranpor capricho porque les han enseñado que no les va a servir de nada. Éste queves aquí es una excepción. Nos lo encontramos cerca de nuestra casa con suhermano mayor llorando desconsoladamente. No hubo manera de saber por quélloraba. Lo curioso es que cuanto más lloraba, más se reía de él su hermano,con lo cual, al cabo de unos instantes el chaval no tuvo más remedio que parar.Me recordó tiempos pasados cuando nosotros hacíamos lo mismo en mi familia;cuando alguno lloraba, los demás le señalábamos con el dedo y nos burlábamos(cariñosamente) de él; el efecto era inmediato: todos acabábamos riendo acarcajadas incluido el llorón.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-1745071326410407842?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/1745071326410407842/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=1745071326410407842&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1745071326410407842'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1745071326410407842'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2012/01/el-lloron-crybaby.html' title='El llorón. The crybaby'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C81KcA9y-pw/TwLI3uq2YrI/AAAAAAAAA0c/2-ehwO2vFvE/s72-c/llor%25C3%25B3n.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-3000633806747312685</id><published>2011-12-31T15:59:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-12-31T17:23:30.998+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mariko'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='homrich'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uwavutse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baker'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pirgacha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christine steiner'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='george valle'/><title type='text'>Lo mejor del año. The best of the year</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;I've beenthinking about the past year and I noticed that the best have been, without adoubt, the persons I have been with. I consider myself privileged for living ina place surrounded by extraordinary people who are giving their lives to Godworking for the poor in Bangladesh. Here I introduce some of them:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;He estado reflexionando acerca del año que termina y me hedado cuenta de que lo mejor han sido, sin duda alguna, las personas con las quehe tratado. Me considero un privilegiado por vivir en un lugar rodeado depersonas extraordinarias que están dando sus vidas a Dios trabajando por lospobres en Bangladesh. Aquí te presento algunos:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gfygjaLXUpU/Tv7az-Qm_HI/AAAAAAAAAzE/TMIcKG9sNkg/s1600/homrich.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gfygjaLXUpU/Tv7az-Qm_HI/AAAAAAAAAzE/TMIcKG9sNkg/s320/homrich.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Father&lt;b&gt;Eugene Homrich&lt;/b&gt;, American, 83. He has been Christianizing and developing the Mandi(or Garo) tribe for more than 50 years; they also owe him the preservation of theirancestral habitat and culture. A monument to evangelization. Surrounded by thelove and affection of the people, he is still working despite his age.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Padre &lt;b&gt;Eugene Homrich&lt;/b&gt;, americano, 83 años. Ha cristianizado ydesarrollado durante más de 50 años a las gentes de la tribu Mandi (o Garo),que le deben también la preservación de su ancestral hábitat y cultura. Todo unmonumento a la evangelización. Rodeado del cariño y del afecto de la gente,sigue al pie del cañón a pesar de su edad.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MoE0W5rTFDQ/Tv7bRXcgJGI/AAAAAAAAAzg/fUhVlsOJ4Hs/s1600/Baker1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MoE0W5rTFDQ/Tv7bRXcgJGI/AAAAAAAAAzg/fUhVlsOJ4Hs/s200/Baker1.jpg" width="147" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Doctor&lt;b&gt;Edric Baker&lt;/b&gt;, New Zealander. He has created from scratch a hospital inKailakuri, in a rural area. He has formed about 80 paramedics who provideservice to thousands of people. His hospital survives thanks to private donations.He lives in a small adobe house, sleeping on the floor. He has worked inBangladesh for more than 30 years.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Doctor &lt;b&gt;Edric Baker&lt;/b&gt;, neozelandés. Ha creado de la nada unhospital en Kailakuri, en plena zona rural. Ha formado a unos 80 paramédicosque dan servicio a miles de personas. Su hospital sobrevive gracias adonaciones privadas. Vive en una casita de adobe, duerme en el suelo. Hatrabajado en Bangladesh más de 30 años de su vida.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tiu36ZIKjmw/Tv7besURQ3I/AAAAAAAAAzs/dScEWeEKUO0/s1600/taize+%25283%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tiu36ZIKjmw/Tv7besURQ3I/AAAAAAAAAzs/dScEWeEKUO0/s200/taize+%25283%2529.JPG" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Taizé Brothers&lt;/b&gt;:Guillaume, Frank, Jacques, Jean-Jacques, Nigmar, Eric. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Men of God at the service of the poor. Theirmonastery made of bamboo, in Mymensingh, is a centre that radiatesspirituality, hospitality, sensitivity, love for the poor, simplicity of life.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="FR"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hermanos deTaizé:&lt;/b&gt; Guillaume, Frank, Jacques, Jean-Jacques, Nigmar, Eric. &lt;/span&gt;Hombres deDios al servicio de los pobres. Su monasterio hecho de bambú, en Mymensingh, esun centro que irradia espiritualidad, acogida, sensibilidad, amor a los pobres,sencillez de vida.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4-5ko7VeZis/Tv7bwpVo3tI/AAAAAAAAAz4/mO2-bGX6J7w/s1600/mariko.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4-5ko7VeZis/Tv7bwpVo3tI/AAAAAAAAAz4/mO2-bGX6J7w/s320/mariko.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Dr.&lt;b&gt; InuiMariko&lt;/b&gt;, Japanese, married with several children. When she retired, she decidedto come to Bangladesh to help the poor. Every three months he returns to Japanto spend a month with her husband and their children. She helps Dr. Baker inKailkauri. He is a prodigy of kindness, sensitivity, efficiency and adaptationto the people of the area.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Doctora &lt;b&gt;Inui Mariko&lt;/b&gt;, japonesa, casada, con varios hijos.Cuando se jubiló, decidió venir a Bangladesh a ayudar a los pobres. Cada tresmeses vuelve a Japón a pasar un mes con su marido y sus hijos. Ayuda al Dr.Baker en Kailkauri. Es un prodigio de eficiencia, amabilidad, sensibilidad yadaptación a las gentes de la zona.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u99wI7whZuc/Tv7b8aUB-NI/AAAAAAAAA0E/Gjca_JHefks/s1600/george.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u99wI7whZuc/Tv7b8aUB-NI/AAAAAAAAA0E/Gjca_JHefks/s320/george.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Brother&lt;b&gt;George Valle&lt;/b&gt;, filipino, Marist like me. We are a community in Pirgacha. Open,smiling, active, friendly. In the two months that he has been here he hasearned everybody’s affection. He knows how to be with people, to sit down withthem, to learn from them. His progress in Bengali and Mandi language arefantastic in so a little time. A gift of God for me.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hermano &lt;b&gt;George Valle&lt;/b&gt;, filipino, marista como yo. Formamoscomunidad en Pirgacha. Abierto, sonriente, activo, simpático. En los dos mesesque lleva aquí se ha ganado la afección de todos. Sabe estar con la gente,sentarse con ellos, aprender de ellos. Sus progresos en las lenguas bengalí ymandi son fantásticos en tan poco tiempo. Un don de Dios para mí.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fay5oXlqJIo/Tv7cIkr6PxI/AAAAAAAAA0Q/r7S5RQA21Eg/s1600/christine.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fay5oXlqJIo/Tv7cIkr6PxI/AAAAAAAAA0Q/r7S5RQA21Eg/s200/christine.JPG" width="164" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ChristineSteiner&lt;/b&gt;, New Zealand. She burned her ships before coming to Kailakuri to work ina rural hospital; I mean that she sold her house and came here. A great exampleof unconditional commitment.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Christine Steiner&lt;/b&gt;, neozelandesa. Quemó sus naves antes devenirse a Kailakuri a trabajar en el hospital rural; quiero decir que vendió sucasa y se vino sin más. Un gran ejemplo de entrega sin condiciones.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-3000633806747312685?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/3000633806747312685/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=3000633806747312685&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3000633806747312685'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3000633806747312685'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/12/lo-mejor-del-ano-best-of-year.html' title='Lo mejor del año. The best of the year'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gfygjaLXUpU/Tv7az-Qm_HI/AAAAAAAAAzE/TMIcKG9sNkg/s72-c/homrich.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-8266945127844769930</id><published>2011-12-26T17:05:00.002+06:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T17:10:53.912+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='navidad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='party'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uwavutse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fiesta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pirgacha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christmas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bangladesh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mandi'/><title type='text'>Skype en el pueblo. Skype at the village</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Today Ihave been through one of the most exciting experiences in my life. A Mandifamily was celebrating Christmas; they were all there, grandparents, parents,uncles, sons, nephews, grandchildren, cousins… All but one: one of theirdaughters working in Thailand. One of the children, which happen to be pupil,has come to ask me if I could bring my computer to the house to talk to theabsent daughter. Not without some apprehension I went and connected them viaSkype. Then it was a megaparty: all spoke to her, hailed her, told her how muchthey love her, waved, showed her the babies born after she left; many criedwith joy. It has been quite an event, something never seen. And when theyfinished, they turned back to me. They didn't know how to give thanks; they embracedme, kissed my feet and hands, cried with joy. They made me feel like a small god.Such is the gratitude of the poor and simple. But I know that I am not a smallgod, I only shared with them for an hour my computer, I've won much more thanthem because I have felt their indescribable warmth, their simplicity, theirlove. Thank you, Lord, for this second Christmas you have given me today,because today you has also come to me through the poor and simple.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DWqo69W92Q8" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;Hoy he vivido una de las experiencias más apasionantesde mi vida. Una familia Mandi estaba celebrando la Navidad; todos estaban allí,abuelos, padres, tíos, hijos, sobrinos, nietos, primos… Todos menos una: tienenuna hija en trabajando en Tailandia. Uno de los hijos, que alumno mío, havenido a pedirme si podría llevarles el ordenador para hablar con la hijaausente. No sin cierta aprensión he ido y les he conectado vía Skype. Aquellose convirtió en una megafiesta: todos hablaron con ella, la saludaron, ledijeron lo mucho que la quieren y añoran, le hicieron gestos, le mostraron alos bebés nacidos después de que se marchara; muchos lloraban de alegría. Hasido todo un acontecimiento, lo nunca visto. &amp;nbsp;Y cuando terminaron, se volvieron hacia mí. Nosabían cómo darme las gracias; me abrazaban, me besaban los pies y las manos,lloraban de alegría. Me hicieron sentir como un pequeño diosecito. Elagradecimiento de los pobres y sencillos. Y sin embargo yo SÉ que no soy undiosecillo, que sólo he compartido con ellos durante una hora mi ordenador, queyo he salido ganado más que ellos porque he sentido su calor humanoindescriptible, su sencillez, su cariño. Gracias, Señor, por esta segundanavidad que hoy me has regalado, porque hoy también has venido a mí a través delos pobres y sencillos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-8266945127844769930?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/8266945127844769930/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=8266945127844769930&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/8266945127844769930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/8266945127844769930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/12/skype-en-el-pueblo-skype-at-village.html' title='Skype en el pueblo. Skype at the village'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/DWqo69W92Q8/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-502566003139112808</id><published>2011-12-26T11:40:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-12-26T11:40:17.502+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christmas in bangladesh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='navidad en bangladesh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pirgacha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='villancicos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bangladesh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='carol'/><title type='text'>Kirton. Ronda de villancicos. Go caroling</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Here youcan see the Christian youth of our Pirgacha village, who have spent all nightsinging carols house to house. They call it "kirton". In every housethey sing, play their instruments and wish Merry Christmas to the family. Inreturn, every house gives them something to eat, especially cakes called"pita", and drinking rice wine (chu). After a whole night taking ashot here and a shot there, some end up singing Bollywood songs instead ofcarols… The celebration of Christmas is for our young Christians one of the fewexternal signs of identity that can be practiced in this mainly Muslim country. Blessed they be for their determination to follow Jesus and celebrateit publicly.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5-yp2PuLLpQ/TvgH0vRlPRI/AAAAAAAAAyQ/VBCBE3lARJc/s1600/chu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5-yp2PuLLpQ/TvgH0vRlPRI/AAAAAAAAAyQ/VBCBE3lARJc/s200/chu.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Drinking "chu". Bebiendo "chu"&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sZQEdWk3Ww8/TvgH2-BwAqI/AAAAAAAAAyY/CtnM2t-j1i0/s1600/kirton3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sZQEdWk3Ww8/TvgH2-BwAqI/AAAAAAAAAyY/CtnM2t-j1i0/s200/kirton3.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Singing carols. Cantando villancicos&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JTn16pvV3Fc/TvgH4xgkYNI/AAAAAAAAAyg/RnjIJpV1pMs/s1600/kirton4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JTn16pvV3Fc/TvgH4xgkYNI/AAAAAAAAAyg/RnjIJpV1pMs/s200/kirton4.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Eating "pita". Comiendo "pita"&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;Aquí tienes a los jóvenes cristianos de nuestro pueblode Pirgacha que se han pasado toda la noche cantando villancicos yendo de casaen casa. Aquí lo llaman “kirton”. En cada casa cantan, tocan sus instrumentos ydesean feliz navidad a la familia. A cambio, en cada casa les dan algo decomer, especialmente unos pastelitos que llaman “pita”, y vino de arroz parabeber (chu). Después de toda una noche tomando un chupito por aquí y un chupitopor allá, algunos acaban cantando canciones de Bollywood en lugar devillancicos… La celebración de la Navidad es para nuestros jóvenes cristianosuna de las pocas señas exteriores de identidad que pueden practicar en estepaís, musulmán en su mayoría. Benditos sean por su determinación en seguir a Jesúsy celebrarlo públicamente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-502566003139112808?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/502566003139112808/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=502566003139112808&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/502566003139112808'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/502566003139112808'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/12/kirton-ronda-de-villancicos-go-caroling.html' title='Kirton. Ronda de villancicos. Go caroling'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5-yp2PuLLpQ/TvgH0vRlPRI/AAAAAAAAAyQ/VBCBE3lARJc/s72-c/chu.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-3773942191062249996</id><published>2011-12-24T11:45:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-12-24T12:44:56.871+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christmas in bangladesh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='navidad en bangladesh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uwavutse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pirgacha'/><title type='text'>Pura Navidad. Pure Christmas</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Jesusbecomes one of us; assumes our fragility, our limitations, and our weaknesses.And he doesn't do it "in jest", but fully. God with us, one of us. Bornin the most absolute poverty, to identify himself more with the most destitute,those who are more out of the financial, political, scientific, intellectual centers.In Pirgacha, Modhupur jungle, it is easy to imagine how the birth of Jesus couldbe: from a young, poor, outcast, hardworking girl. And our people of the Mandi tribecelebrate it in a great way, which is actually quite poor. As an example,here's the crib that young people have built at the door of the church.Christmas without tinsel, Christmas without gifts, Christmas without TV advertising;only pure Christmas. Merry Christmas to all.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zjIFKmH5UIE/TvV0wXH1HPI/AAAAAAAAAyE/BDfCPt3ofrE/s1600/navidad+%25283%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zjIFKmH5UIE/TvV0wXH1HPI/AAAAAAAAAyE/BDfCPt3ofrE/s400/navidad+%25283%2529.JPG" width="322" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Jesús se hace uno de nosotros, asume nuestra fragilidad,nuestra debilidad, nuestras flaquezas. Y no lo hace “de mentirijillas”, sinoplenamente. Dios con nosotros, uno de nosotros. Además nace en la pobreza másabsoluta, como para identificarse más con los más indigentes, los que están másal margen de los centros financieros, políticos, científicos, intelectuales. EnPirgacha, en la selva de Modhupur, es fácil imaginarse cómo sería el nacimientode Jesús: de una joven pobre, marginada, trabajadora. Y nuestras gentes de latribu Mandi lo celebran a lo grande, que en realidad es bastante pobre. Comomuestra, aquí tienes el pesebre que los jóvenes han construido a la puerta dela iglesia. Navidad sin oropel, Navidad sin regalos, Navidad sin publicidad,sólo pura Navidad. Feliz Navidad a todos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-3773942191062249996?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/3773942191062249996/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=3773942191062249996&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3773942191062249996'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3773942191062249996'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/12/pura-navidad-pure-christmas.html' title='Pura Navidad. Pure Christmas'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zjIFKmH5UIE/TvV0wXH1HPI/AAAAAAAAAyE/BDfCPt3ofrE/s72-c/navidad+%25283%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-5190782467526465384</id><published>2011-12-18T16:35:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-12-18T16:35:04.576+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='niños'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hermanos maristas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='champagnat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pirgacha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bangladesh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marist brothers'/><title type='text'>Nuestra historia comenzó en los ojos de un muchacho moribundo. Our story began in the eyes of a dying boy.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;When I&amp;nbsp;took&amp;nbsp;thepicture&amp;nbsp;of this boy months ago,&amp;nbsp;I could never&amp;nbsp;imagine what&amp;nbsp;wasbehind&amp;nbsp;his eyes.&amp;nbsp;Today, by chance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;, when&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;zooming to&amp;nbsp;his face, I discovered that&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;there are alot&amp;nbsp;of things in their&amp;nbsp;reflection (you’ll&amp;nbsp;see too&amp;nbsp;if youzoom it).&amp;nbsp;There are&amp;nbsp;trees in the background, a house,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt; and also&amp;nbsp;my own image asI&amp;nbsp;was taking&amp;nbsp;the photo.&amp;nbsp;A landmark&amp;nbsp;for me.&amp;nbsp;A message.&amp;nbsp;Acall.&amp;nbsp;A mission&amp;nbsp;for a lifetime.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Our founder, Marcellin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Champagnat&amp;nbsp;discovered&amp;nbsp;hismission looking&amp;nbsp;into the eyes of&amp;nbsp;a&amp;nbsp;dying boy; today,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;as if bymagic, I also rediscover&amp;nbsp;my&amp;nbsp;mission in&amp;nbsp;the eyes of a&amp;nbsp;Bangladeshi&amp;nbsp;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Mandi boy,poor and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;marginalized.&amp;nbsp;It's worth fighting&amp;nbsp;for it, giveyour life&amp;nbsp;for it.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NoClQ4xwnQc/Tu2__VNTxQI/AAAAAAAAAxU/0MBOrIeuONc/s1600/ojos.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="206" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NoClQ4xwnQc/Tu2__VNTxQI/AAAAAAAAAxU/0MBOrIeuONc/s400/ojos.bmp" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Cuando le saqué esta foto a este niño hace ya meses, nunca pudeimaginar lo que se escondía detrás de su mirada. Hoy, por casualidad, alaplicar el zoom a su carita, he descubierto que hay un montón de cosas en sureflejo (lo verás si haces zoom tú también). Se ven árboles al fondo, una casa,y también se me ve a mí, que le estaba sacando la foto. Todo un símbolo paramí. Todo un mensaje. Toda una llamada. Toda una misión para toda una vida.Nuestro fundador, Marcelino Champagnat comprendió su misión mirando a los ojos aun muchacho moribundo; hoy, como por encanto, yo reconozco también mi misión enlos ojos de un muchacho bangladeshi, mandi, pobre, marginado. Vale la penaluchar por ello, dar la vida por ello.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-5190782467526465384?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/5190782467526465384/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=5190782467526465384&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5190782467526465384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5190782467526465384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/12/nuestra-historia-comenzo-en-los-ojos-de.html' title='Nuestra historia comenzó en los ojos de un muchacho moribundo. Our story began in the eyes of a dying boy.'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NoClQ4xwnQc/Tu2__VNTxQI/AAAAAAAAAxU/0MBOrIeuONc/s72-c/ojos.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-7653403635282308746</id><published>2011-12-13T16:28:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-12-13T16:29:04.197+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='work'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trabajo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pirgacha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alegría'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bangladesh'/><title type='text'>¿Cuánto pesa un vaso de agua? How heavy is a glass of water?</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;A lecturer infront of his audience raised a glass of water and asked, ‘How heavy is thisglass of water?’ Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g. The lecturerreplied, ‘The absolute weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long you try tohold it. If I hold it for a minute, that’s not a problem. If I hold it for anhour, I’ll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you’ll have tocall an ambulance. In each case, it’s the same weight, but the longer I holdit, the heavier it becomes.’ He continued, ‘And that’s the way it is. If wecarry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomesincreasingly heavy, we won’t be able to carry on. As with the glass of water,you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again. Whenwe’re refreshed, we can carry on with the burden. Working and resting, painingand enjoying, crying and laughing; such is life. In that sense, again Bangladeshipeople teach me how to live and keep balance in my life. Most of them sufferfrom poverty and carry on other burdens, but they also know how to enjoy the gift of life. They remind me Jesus' words:&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f9fdff; color: #001320; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qNUw_VtNYj4/TuckrlJ5_1I/AAAAAAAAAw4/zsmiltZtANc/s1600/youth+party+%252828%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qNUw_VtNYj4/TuckrlJ5_1I/AAAAAAAAAw4/zsmiltZtANc/s320/youth+party+%252828%2529.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_9SaiGzJG9A/Tuckky2187I/AAAAAAAAAww/KKIO1y7XMLA/s1600/SAM_1030.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_9SaiGzJG9A/Tuckky2187I/AAAAAAAAAww/KKIO1y7XMLA/s320/SAM_1030.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;Un conferenciante levantó un vaso de agua ante suaudiencia y preguntó: “¿Cuánto pesa este vaso de agua?” Las respuestasoscilaron entre los 20 y los 500 gramos. Entonces el conferenciante dijo: “Elpeso absoluto del vaso de agua no importa, lo esencial es por cuánto tiempo intentessostenerlo con la mano. Si lo tienes un minuto, no pasa nada. Si lo intentasdurante una hora, acabarás con el brazo dolorido. Pero si lo sostienes duranteun día entero, tendrán que sacarte en ambulancia. El peso es el mismo en todoslos casos, pero cuanto más tiempo pase, más pesado será”. Después continuódiciendo: “Así son las cosas. Si llevamos nuestras cargas sin interrupción,tarde o temprano, se volverán gradualmente más pesadas y no seremos capaces de resistirlas.Como con el vaso de agua, tendremos que dejarlo por un rato y descansar antesde sostenerlo otra vez. Cuando estamos frescos, podemos acometer cualquiercosa. La vida es eso: trabajar y descansar, sufrir y gozar, llorar y reír. Tambiénen este sentido, la gente de Bangladesh me enseña a vivir y lograr equilibrioen mi vida. Muchos de ellos sufren un montón a causa de la pobreza y otrassituaciones, pero también saben gozar del regalo de la vida. Me recuerdan constantemente las palabras de Jesús: "Venid a mi todos los que estáis cansados y agobiados, y yo os aliviaré"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mvBMubch3Pg/TucltaFsnCI/AAAAAAAAAxA/OiWsWkDXZEo/s1600/onustan+%25283%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mvBMubch3Pg/TucltaFsnCI/AAAAAAAAAxA/OiWsWkDXZEo/s320/onustan+%25283%2529.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C0b_0kN9KTs/Tucl6ayvv6I/AAAAAAAAAxI/0j-dZVcuswM/s1600/pirgacha+%252895%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C0b_0kN9KTs/Tucl6ayvv6I/AAAAAAAAAxI/0j-dZVcuswM/s320/pirgacha+%252895%2529.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-7653403635282308746?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/7653403635282308746/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=7653403635282308746&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/7653403635282308746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/7653403635282308746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/12/lecturer-infront-of-his-audience-raised.html' title='¿Cuánto pesa un vaso de agua? How heavy is a glass of water?'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qNUw_VtNYj4/TuckrlJ5_1I/AAAAAAAAAw4/zsmiltZtANc/s72-c/youth+party+%252828%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-4251940664552530319</id><published>2011-12-09T15:59:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-12-09T16:02:39.419+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='youth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='internet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pirgacha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ordenador'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jovenes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='computer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bangladesh'/><title type='text'>Computer Dokan</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;What yousee here&amp;nbsp;is a&amp;nbsp;"Computer&amp;nbsp;Dokan", i.e., a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;store where&amp;nbsp;peoplecan come&amp;nbsp;to use&amp;nbsp;a computer.&amp;nbsp;Generally&amp;nbsp;customers are&amp;nbsp;youngsters,mostly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;boys, rarely&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;girls.&amp;nbsp;They pay 40&amp;nbsp;taka&amp;nbsp;(40 centsof euro)&amp;nbsp;per hour; generally&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt; three&lt;/span&gt;, four&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;or five&amp;nbsp;guys go Dutch.&amp;nbsp;What&amp;nbsp;dothey do&amp;nbsp;in that hour?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Listen&amp;nbsp;to music or watch&amp;nbsp;videoclips (Bangladeshis&lt;/span&gt;, Indians&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;or Western, in that order&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;ofpreference).&amp;nbsp;If the&amp;nbsp;store is&amp;nbsp;connected to&amp;nbsp;the Internet,then&amp;nbsp;Facebook&amp;nbsp;is the favorite.&amp;nbsp;I have already&amp;nbsp;opened Facebook&amp;nbsp;accounts&amp;nbsp;formore&amp;nbsp;than a dozen&amp;nbsp;kids who&amp;nbsp;come&amp;nbsp;to my computer&amp;nbsp;becausethe connection&amp;nbsp;of the stores&amp;nbsp;is usually very&amp;nbsp;slow,&amp;nbsp;because theydo not understand&amp;nbsp;enough&amp;nbsp;English&amp;nbsp;to&amp;nbsp;fill in the&amp;nbsp;registrationquestionnaire,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;and because it is&amp;nbsp;free, of course.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;But theirbehavior&amp;nbsp;on Facebook is&amp;nbsp;more or less&amp;nbsp;like all&amp;nbsp;the world'syouth: the more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;friends&amp;nbsp;the better,&amp;nbsp;even if theydon’t&amp;nbsp;know&amp;nbsp;them;&amp;nbsp;uploading pictures and&amp;nbsp;looking at others’ photos.&amp;nbsp;Iwould&amp;nbsp;show them how to make a&amp;nbsp;better use of these&amp;nbsp;gadgets&amp;nbsp;called&amp;nbsp;computers,&amp;nbsp;andhelp them&amp;nbsp;to get more out&amp;nbsp;of this extraordinary&amp;nbsp;tool.&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KY-xlPEpLmA/TuHcWu2uP9I/AAAAAAAAAwo/cm_O5o4TGHY/s1600/computer+dokan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KY-xlPEpLmA/TuHcWu2uP9I/AAAAAAAAAwo/cm_O5o4TGHY/s400/computer+dokan.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;Esto que veis aquí es un “Computer Dokan”, es decir,una tienda a la que la gente puede venir a usar un ordenador. Generalmente losclientes son chavales jóvenes, casi siempre chicos, casi nunca chicas. Pagan 40takas (40 céntimos de euro) por hora, que generalmente es pagada “a escote” portres, cuatro o cinco muchachos. ¿Y qué es lo que hacen en esa hora? Escucharmúsica o ver videoclips (bangladeshis, indios u occidentales, por ese orden depreferencia). Si en la tienda hay conexión a internet, entonces Facebook es elfavorito. Yo ya he abierto cuentas Facebook a más de una docena de chavales quevienen a mi ordenador porque la conexión de las tiendas suele ser muy lenta,porque no entienden suficientemente el inglés como para rellenar elcuestionario de inscripción, y porque es gratis, claro. Pero su comportamientoen Facebook es más o menos como el de todos los jóvenes del mundo: cuantos másamigos mejor, aunque no los conozcas de nada; subir fotos y mirar las fotos delos demás. Me gustaría enseñarles a usar mejor estos cacharros llamadosordenadores, ayudarles a sacar mayor partido de esta extraordinaria herramienta.Ojalá pueda y sepa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-4251940664552530319?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/4251940664552530319/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=4251940664552530319&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/4251940664552530319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/4251940664552530319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/12/computer-dokan.html' title='Computer Dokan'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KY-xlPEpLmA/TuHcWu2uP9I/AAAAAAAAAwo/cm_O5o4TGHY/s72-c/computer+dokan.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-1788906299941830452</id><published>2011-12-05T20:27:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-12-06T19:25:31.705+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='madre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tienda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pirgacha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shop'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bangladesh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mother'/><title type='text'>Sin pasar factura. Expecting nothing in return</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;This lady&amp;nbsp;yousee&amp;nbsp;here is called&amp;nbsp;Purnima.&amp;nbsp;She runs&amp;nbsp;a small store (dokan&lt;/span&gt;) near&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;our house, whereyou can&amp;nbsp;find&amp;nbsp;soap, toothpaste, matches&lt;/span&gt;, biscuits, eggs, some vegetables, sugar, tea, in short the&amp;nbsp;basic daily necessities.&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;She has 4&amp;nbsp;childrento maintain, as well as&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;the grandparents, who live&lt;/span&gt; with them.&amp;nbsp;She spendsthe whole day&amp;nbsp;in the shop,&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;she still gets time&amp;nbsp;to cook&amp;nbsp;inthe evening.&amp;nbsp;During holidays time she&amp;nbsp;sends his son&amp;nbsp;Akash, 12,&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;to&amp;nbsp;servethe customers, so&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;that she&amp;nbsp;can devote herself to the houseand small children.&amp;nbsp;She is honest, efficient&lt;/span&gt;, hardworking, and also&amp;nbsp;beautiful,&amp;nbsp;as you can see&amp;nbsp;in thepicture.&amp;nbsp;It's amazing the&amp;nbsp;work that women&amp;nbsp;can perform&amp;nbsp;competentlyand&amp;nbsp;without complaint.&amp;nbsp;Mothers never&amp;nbsp;pass the&amp;nbsp;bill for what&amp;nbsp;theydo for their&amp;nbsp;children, because&amp;nbsp;they do&amp;nbsp;it lovingly.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a23JBm2qjSA/TtzV8vrGIAI/AAAAAAAAAtY/AHk2ZGPfINo/s1600/tendera.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a23JBm2qjSA/TtzV8vrGIAI/AAAAAAAAAtY/AHk2ZGPfINo/s400/tendera.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;Esta señora que ves aquí se llama Purnima. Lleva una pequeña tienda(dokan) cerca de nuestra casa, en la que puedes encontrar jabón, dentífrico, cerillas,galletas, huevos, algunas verduras, azúcar, té, en fin, los artículos deprimera necesidad. Tiene 4 hijos que mantener, además de los abuelos, que vivencon ellos. Se pasa el día en la tienda, y aún le queda tiempo para cocinar porla noche. Durante las vacaciones manda a su hijo Akash, de 12 años, a atender alos clientes; así ella se puede dedicar a la casa y a los hijos pequeños. Eshonrada, eficiente, trabajadora, simpática y, además, guapa, como puedes ver enla foto. Es increíble el trabajo que las mujeres pueden llevar a cabo concompetencia y sin quejarse. Las madres nunca pasan factura de lo que hacen porsus hijos, porque lo hacen por amor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-1788906299941830452?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/1788906299941830452/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=1788906299941830452&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1788906299941830452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1788906299941830452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/12/sin-pasar-factura-expecting-anything-in.html' title='Sin pasar factura. Expecting nothing in return'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a23JBm2qjSA/TtzV8vrGIAI/AAAAAAAAAtY/AHk2ZGPfINo/s72-c/tendera.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-7445871223136010771</id><published>2011-12-02T20:31:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-12-02T20:43:46.699+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='girl'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='homrich'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='niña'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='labio paladar hendido'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pirgacha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cleft palate'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bangladesh'/><title type='text'>La historia de Moriom. Moriom’s story</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;She wasleft&amp;nbsp;abandoned on the&amp;nbsp;back seat&amp;nbsp;of a bus.&amp;nbsp;It was a&amp;nbsp;littlegirl&amp;nbsp;just a few&amp;nbsp;days old. We know nothing of&amp;nbsp;her parents,&amp;nbsp;butwe suspect she&amp;nbsp;was left&amp;nbsp;because she suffers from&amp;nbsp;"cleftpalate"&lt;/span&gt;, a congenital malformation&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;of the palate and&amp;nbsp;the mouth&amp;nbsp;whichgives&amp;nbsp;the patient&amp;nbsp;a&amp;nbsp;deformed and&amp;nbsp;almost monstrous&amp;nbsp;appearance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;The driverand&amp;nbsp;the bus&amp;nbsp;conductor got&amp;nbsp;the baby to&amp;nbsp;our mission, knowing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;that"Christians&amp;nbsp;take care of these&amp;nbsp;things."&amp;nbsp;The&amp;nbsp;parishpriest, Fr. Homrich, quickly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;took&amp;nbsp;the little girl&amp;nbsp;as a priority&amp;nbsp;anddid everything he could so that she could be operated by a group&amp;nbsp;ofAustralian doctors from&amp;nbsp;“&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDLWVw0edu0" target="_blank"&gt;Aussi&amp;nbsp;Bangla&amp;nbsp;Smile&amp;nbsp;Team&lt;/a&gt;”, who&amp;nbsp;comeevery year to&amp;nbsp;Bangladesh&amp;nbsp;for a couple&amp;nbsp;of months&amp;nbsp;and operate&amp;nbsp;hundredsof&amp;nbsp;children for free.&amp;nbsp;Homrich named&amp;nbsp;the little girl,&amp;nbsp;Moriom,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;the Muslimname&amp;nbsp;for Mary.&amp;nbsp;Now&amp;nbsp;Moriom&amp;nbsp;is cured;&amp;nbsp;in a few months her&amp;nbsp;scars&amp;nbsp;willdisappear&amp;nbsp;and she will become&amp;nbsp;a beautiful&amp;nbsp;young lady.&amp;nbsp;When&amp;nbsp;recovered,&amp;nbsp;shewill be given&amp;nbsp;in adoption to&amp;nbsp;a trustful Muslim family, where she&amp;nbsp;willbe a&amp;nbsp;daughter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Lord, thank you for putting so many&amp;nbsp;wonderfulpeople around: those who&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;brought&amp;nbsp;the girl, P.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Homrich,&lt;/span&gt; the Australian doctors, thecook at&lt;span style="float: none;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;the mission who&amp;nbsp;is raising the baby,&amp;nbsp;thefamily&amp;nbsp;that&amp;nbsp;will&amp;nbsp;adopt her ...&amp;nbsp;God, how much to&amp;nbsp;learnfrom the&amp;nbsp;good people!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jNOzILFOw8M/TtjhfO4AgrI/AAAAAAAAAtQ/Ji6UMQgXEmg/s1600/before.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jNOzILFOw8M/TtjhfO4AgrI/AAAAAAAAAtQ/Ji6UMQgXEmg/s200/before.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Before. Antes&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nRBmuRIbNM0/Ttjhd7pJqmI/AAAAAAAAAtI/QQuACkVT4fo/s1600/after.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nRBmuRIbNM0/Ttjhd7pJqmI/AAAAAAAAAtI/QQuACkVT4fo/s200/after.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;After. Después&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;La dejaron abandonada en el último asiento de unautobús. Era una niñita de apenas unos días de vida. No sabemos nada de suspadres, pero sospechamos que fue abandonada por sufrir “labio y paladar hendido”,una malformación congénita del paladar y la boca que confiere a quien lo padeceun aspecto deforme y casi monstruoso. El conductor y el cobrador del autobúshicieron llegar a la niña a nuestra misión, porque saben que “los cristianos seocupan de estas cosas”. EL párroco, P. Homrich, rápidamente tomo a la niñitacomo asunto prioritario y removió Roma con Santiago hasta que encontró unosmédicos australianos pertenecientes a &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDLWVw0edu0" target="_blank"&gt;Aussi Bangla Smile Team&lt;/a&gt;, que vienen cadaaño a Bangladesh un par de meses y operan a cientos de niños gratis. Homrich lepuso nombre a la niña: Moriom, el nombre musulmán de María. Ahora Moriom estácurada, dentro de unos meses su cicatriz desaparecerá y se convertirá en unapreciosa jovencita. Cuando esté recuperada del todo, será dada en adopción auna familia musulmana de toda confianza, en la que será una hija más. Señor,gracias por rodearme de gente maravillosa: los que nos trajeron a la niña, elP. Homrich, los doctores australianos, la cocinera de la misión que la estácriando, la familia que la va a adoptar… ¡Dios, cuánto hay que aprender de lagente buena!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-7445871223136010771?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/7445871223136010771/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=7445871223136010771&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/7445871223136010771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/7445871223136010771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/12/la-historia-de-moriom-morioms-story.html' title='La historia de Moriom. Moriom’s story'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jNOzILFOw8M/TtjhfO4AgrI/AAAAAAAAAtQ/Ji6UMQgXEmg/s72-c/before.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-42512110596406575</id><published>2011-11-28T20:08:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-11-28T20:16:39.884+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marista'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='niña'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uwavutse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pirgacha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dios'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='God'/><title type='text'>En tus brazos, seguro y feliz. Safe and happy in your arms</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;The LORD ismy shepherd, I lack nothing.&lt;br /&gt;Even though I walk&lt;br /&gt;through the darkest valley, &lt;br /&gt;I will fear no evil,&lt;br /&gt;for you are with me.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Surely yourgoodness and love will follow me&lt;br /&gt;all the days of my life,&lt;br /&gt;and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-paEGk1K7i-4/TtOWkHuT3rI/AAAAAAAAAtA/b-7TJ24pXr8/s1600/SAM_0581.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-paEGk1K7i-4/TtOWkHuT3rI/AAAAAAAAAtA/b-7TJ24pXr8/s400/SAM_0581.JPG" width="326" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;El&amp;nbsp;Señor&amp;nbsp;es mi pastor, nada me falta;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;Aunque vaya por valles tenebrosos,&lt;br /&gt;no temo peligro alguno&lt;br /&gt;porque tú estás a mi lado.&lt;br /&gt;La bondad y el amor me seguirán&lt;br /&gt;todos los días de mi vida;&lt;br /&gt;y viviré para siempre en la casa del&amp;nbsp;Señor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-42512110596406575?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/42512110596406575/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=42512110596406575&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/42512110596406575'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/42512110596406575'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/11/en-tus-brazos-seguro-y-feliz-safe-and.html' title='En tus brazos, seguro y feliz. Safe and happy in your arms'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-paEGk1K7i-4/TtOWkHuT3rI/AAAAAAAAAtA/b-7TJ24pXr8/s72-c/SAM_0581.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-8938660341069484584</id><published>2011-11-25T10:45:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-11-25T10:49:47.485+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Su amor no tiene fin. His love is endless. Ishorer bhalobasha oshim</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;It isautumn time in Pirgacha, and for some reason, the spiders and their webs flourishas you can see on this tree, right next to my house. Many unwary insects getcaught in their nets, fight for a while and end up being digested by theravenous arachnids. They are digested precisely because they move and getworked up, which makes them stay more and more attached to the sticky web.These days when the misfortune seems to have&lt;a href="http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/11/reza-por-ella-por-favor-please-pray-for.html" target="_blank"&gt; hung over my family&lt;/a&gt;, I felt thesame way: trapped and restless, and that didn’t free me from the net, but makeme sink deeper and deeper. May God give us all the strength not to get caughtin the web of despair and hopelessness. We believe that God’s love is endless.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PFdAKSyfSvs/Ts8dlitsSuI/AAAAAAAAAs4/4RxXjW3R-04/s1600/spiderwebs.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PFdAKSyfSvs/Ts8dlitsSuI/AAAAAAAAAs4/4RxXjW3R-04/s400/spiderwebs.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Es otoño en Pirgacha, y por alguna razón, proliferan lasarañas y sus telarañas, como puedes ver en este árbol que está justo al lado demi casa. Muchos insectos incautos quedan atrapados en sus redes, se debaten porun tiempo y acaban siendo digeridos por los voraces arácnidos. Son digeridosprecisamente porque se debaten y se agitan, lo cual les hace quedarse más adheridosa la pegajosa telaraña. Estos días en los que la desgracia parece&lt;a href="http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/11/reza-por-ella-por-favor-please-pray-for.html" target="_blank"&gt; habersecernido sobre mi familia&lt;/a&gt;, me sentía de la misma manera: atrapado y agitado, locual no me libraba de la red, sino que me hundía más y más. Que el Señor nos déla fuerza a todos de no dejarnos atrapar en la red del desaliento y ladesesperanza. Confiamos en que el amor de Dios es eterno, sin límites.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-8938660341069484584?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/8938660341069484584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=8938660341069484584&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/8938660341069484584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/8938660341069484584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/11/su-amor-no-tiene-fin-his-love-is.html' title='Su amor no tiene fin. His love is endless. Ishorer bhalobasha oshim'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PFdAKSyfSvs/Ts8dlitsSuI/AAAAAAAAAs4/4RxXjW3R-04/s72-c/spiderwebs.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-1519202207400299863</id><published>2011-11-18T21:28:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-11-18T21:37:19.533+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='niños'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pobres'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='juguete'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='toy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pirgacha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bangladesh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poor'/><title type='text'>No es más rico el que más tiene, sino el que menos necesita. The richest is not the one who has more, but the one who needs least.</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Sincearriving in Bangladesh, I go from surprise to surprise. This photo is a goodexample, here you can see how far the inventiveness of these people can go. A bamboocane, a piece of a branch, two washers and some strings are enough to make this"baby taxi". The girl enjoys a lot carrying her little brother(though in the photo they look quite serious). Then once again I wonder why I needso many things to live, why so many children need so many expensive toys ...The poor need less to reach the same degree of happiness.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qVDKV5mYAxA/TsZ7S01B4FI/AAAAAAAAAsk/QJNk7B3LIbY/s1600/Baby%2BTaxi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qVDKV5mYAxA/TsZ7S01B4FI/AAAAAAAAAsk/QJNk7B3LIbY/s400/Baby%2BTaxi.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Desde que llegué a Bangladesh, voy de sorpresa en sorpresa.Un buen ejemplo es esta foto, en la que puedes ver hasta dónde llega el ingeniode estas gentes. Una caña de bambú, un trocito de una rama, dos arandelas yalgunas cuerdas son suficientes para fabricar este “baby taxi”. La niña se lopasa pipa paseando a su hermanito (aunque en la foto han salido los dos concara de circunstancias). Y yo me pregunto una vez más por qué necesito tantascosas para vivir, por qué muchos niños necesitan tantos juguetes caros… Los máspobres necesitan mucho menos para alcanzar el mismo grado de felicidad.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-1519202207400299863?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/1519202207400299863/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=1519202207400299863&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1519202207400299863'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1519202207400299863'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/11/no-es-mas-rico-el-que-mas-tiene-sino-el.html' title='No es más rico el que más tiene, sino el que menos necesita. The richest is not the one who has more, but the one who needs least.'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qVDKV5mYAxA/TsZ7S01B4FI/AAAAAAAAAsk/QJNk7B3LIbY/s72-c/Baby%2BTaxi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-6600851044409705443</id><published>2011-11-14T08:41:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-11-14T08:48:18.608+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bicho'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bug'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uwavutse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='internado'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hostel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pirgacha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bangladesh'/><title type='text'>Que no cunda el pánico. Do not panic!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Thismorning, before going for class, the boarding school kids have come screaming tomy door: "Brother, boro chengga" (Brother, a giant caterpillar!).They were excited and a little scared because the caterpillar was really hugeand they know that if you touch it, it's going to sting for two or three days.In addition, they had found it in their bedroom and were afraid that maybeothers are there and can run over them while they sleep. We have taken photos,and we made a general check in the dormitory, but we haven’t seen more.Incidentally I've done later on the same thing in my house, just in case ...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DJUvdfp37O0/TsCBANeGOfI/AAAAAAAAAsY/Jc_qg_m4nKA/s1600/oruga+gigante.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DJUvdfp37O0/TsCBANeGOfI/AAAAAAAAAsY/Jc_qg_m4nKA/s400/oruga+gigante.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Esta mañana, antes de ir a clase, los chavales del internadohan venido gritando a mi puerta: “Brother, boro chengga!” (¡Hermano, una orugagigante!). Estaban excitados y un poco atemorizados porque la oruga erarealmente enorme y saben que si la tocas te va a escocer durante dos o tresdías. Además la habían encontrado dentro de su dormitorio y temen que haya másy les puedan correr por encima mientras duermen. Hemos sacado fotos, y hemoshecho una batida general en el dormitorio, pero no hemos visto más. Dicho seade paso que yo luego he hecho lo mismo en mi casa, por si las moscas…&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-6600851044409705443?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/6600851044409705443/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=6600851044409705443&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6600851044409705443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6600851044409705443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/11/que-no-cunda-el-panico-do-not-panic.html' title='Que no cunda el pánico. Do not panic!'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DJUvdfp37O0/TsCBANeGOfI/AAAAAAAAAsY/Jc_qg_m4nKA/s72-c/oruga+gigante.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-2785930669868086240</id><published>2011-11-10T20:18:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-11-11T09:09:09.991+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uwavutse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trades'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pirgacha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oficios'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bangladesh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rural'/><title type='text'>Oficios en el Bangladesh rural. Trades in rural Bangladesh</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;"&gt;Weeks ago&amp;nbsp;I promised&amp;nbsp;a series of&amp;nbsp;photos about&amp;nbsp;thetrades that&amp;nbsp;people practice&amp;nbsp;in our area. Here I put a&amp;nbsp;veryinteresting&amp;nbsp;series of&amp;nbsp;photos&amp;nbsp;where you can see&amp;nbsp;people&amp;nbsp;making&amp;nbsp;adobebricks,&amp;nbsp;hauling firewood&amp;nbsp;baskets, brooms, mats, stones for&amp;nbsp;grindinggrain; you can&amp;nbsp;also see carpenters, mechanics&amp;nbsp;andseamstresses at work.&amp;nbsp;All are&amp;nbsp;scenes from&amp;nbsp;daily life in Pirgacha&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;surroundingvillages.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"&gt;Hace semanas prometí una serie de fotos acerca de losoficios que la gente practica en nuestra zona. Aquí pongo una serie deinteresantísimas fotos en las que puede verse gente fabricando ladrillos deadobe, canastas para transportar leña, escobas, esteras, piedras para moler elgrano; también puedes ver cómo trabajan los carpinteros, mecánicos ycostureras. Todas son escenas del día a día en Pirgacha y las aldeas dealrededor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6BzdroPJvHc/TrvdjxxnWqI/AAAAAAAAArQ/w2uxV0JT1Bk/s1600/adobe+bricks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6BzdroPJvHc/TrvdjxxnWqI/AAAAAAAAArQ/w2uxV0JT1Bk/s320/adobe+bricks.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Adobe-Brick makers. Haciendo ladrillos&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eW3i5wDaM6c/Trvdyk8wsdI/AAAAAAAAArY/_JVXCvS5-iI/s1600/canasta.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eW3i5wDaM6c/Trvdyk8wsdI/AAAAAAAAArY/_JVXCvS5-iI/s320/canasta.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Basket makers. Haciendo canastas&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w5VgyboGGXA/Trvd_-6XycI/AAAAAAAAArg/brMDQ1KwzHY/s1600/carpintero.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w5VgyboGGXA/Trvd_-6XycI/AAAAAAAAArg/brMDQ1KwzHY/s320/carpintero.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Carpenters. Carpinteros&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xVwNJ6MciBo/TrveWVWYmBI/AAAAAAAAAro/BUNeWyph5eQ/s1600/costurera.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xVwNJ6MciBo/TrveWVWYmBI/AAAAAAAAAro/BUNeWyph5eQ/s320/costurera.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Seamstress. Costurera&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GxriekwNdxA/TrvetvX6FII/AAAAAAAAArw/rg8MFkJvCnE/s1600/escobas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GxriekwNdxA/TrvetvX6FII/AAAAAAAAArw/rg8MFkJvCnE/s320/escobas.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Broom maker. Haciendo escobas&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TnHy60KkyVE/TrvfWbDwUOI/AAAAAAAAAr4/TJ2vuYzTDk0/s1600/estera.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TnHy60KkyVE/TrvfWbDwUOI/AAAAAAAAAr4/TJ2vuYzTDk0/s320/estera.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Mat makers. Haciendo esteras&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1cLZ_rKkFZs/TrvfstlsQdI/AAAAAAAAAsA/sJZNzsNzIyY/s1600/mecanico.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1cLZ_rKkFZs/TrvfstlsQdI/AAAAAAAAAsA/sJZNzsNzIyY/s320/mecanico.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Mechanics. Mecánicos&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KlRGICWOHBw/Trvf2Ur3TdI/AAAAAAAAAsI/yrXNoZvh6so/s1600/molino.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KlRGICWOHBw/Trvf2Ur3TdI/AAAAAAAAAsI/yrXNoZvh6so/s1600/molino.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Grinding grain. Moliendo el grano&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ieIat0vkT_E/TrvgRdMrWdI/AAAAAAAAAsQ/onK1gbPK5Ds/s1600/piedra+para+moler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ieIat0vkT_E/TrvgRdMrWdI/AAAAAAAAAsQ/onK1gbPK5Ds/s320/piedra+para+moler.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Making grinding stones. Haciendo piedra para moler grano&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-2785930669868086240?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/2785930669868086240/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=2785930669868086240&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/2785930669868086240'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/2785930669868086240'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/11/oficios-en-el-bangladesh-rural-trades.html' title='Oficios en el Bangladesh rural. Trades in rural Bangladesh'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6BzdroPJvHc/TrvdjxxnWqI/AAAAAAAAArQ/w2uxV0JT1Bk/s72-c/adobe+bricks.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-6876760314198514131</id><published>2011-11-06T14:40:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-11-06T15:40:47.150+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hermanos maristas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bangladesh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marist brothers'/><title type='text'>Diversidad, unidad. Diversity, unity</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;This picture is very special. There are the Marist Brothers who live in Bangladesh, meetingin our apartment in Mymensingh. We are six. And if you pay a little attention,you'll see that we are of all colors. Six brothers from five continents.Vigilio, from Africa; Hilario, from America; George, from Asia; Marti and I, fromEurope; and Mark, from Oceania. A world in miniature. Different languages,different cultures, different ways of seeing things. But one faith, onepurpose. Now that things get tough in the world, now that the economic crisisleads to social crisis, to be together being different and complementary showsthat unity is possible, if we really want to, with the help of God.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nqfm8atnkjM/TrZVcoPOtZI/AAAAAAAAAq8/x1EeyQQW6NU/s1600/Brothers+Bangladesh.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nqfm8atnkjM/TrZVcoPOtZI/AAAAAAAAAq8/x1EeyQQW6NU/s400/Brothers+Bangladesh.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;Esta foto es muy especial. Ahí estamos los hermanosmaristas que vivimos en Bangladesh, reunidos en nuestro apartamento deMymensingh. Somos seis. Y si te fijas un poco, verás que somos de todos loscolores. Seis hermanos de los cinco continentes. Vigilio, de África; Hilario,de América; George, de Asia; Martí y yo, de Europa; Mark, de Oceanía. Un mundoen pequeño. Lenguas diferentes, culturas diferentes, maneras de ver las cosasdiferentes. Pero con una sola fe, un solo propósito. Ahora que las cosas seponen difíciles en el mundo, ahora que la crisis económica desemboca en crisissocial, encontrarnos diferentes y complementarios, demuestra que la unidad esposible si nos lo proponemos, y con la ayuda de Dios.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-6876760314198514131?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/6876760314198514131/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=6876760314198514131&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6876760314198514131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6876760314198514131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/11/diversidad-unidad-diversity-unity.html' title='Diversidad, unidad. Diversity, unity'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nqfm8atnkjM/TrZVcoPOtZI/AAAAAAAAAq8/x1EeyQQW6NU/s72-c/Brothers+Bangladesh.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-5843941213713958215</id><published>2011-11-03T15:56:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-11-03T15:56:09.246+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='girl'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='adopción'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='niña'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uwavutse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pirgacha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bangladesh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='adoption'/><title type='text'>“Marcelina” Pan y Vino. “Marcelino Bread and Wine”</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;This beautyyou see here is called Kolli. Her short story resembles that of “MarcelinoBread and Wine”. Her parents were unwilling or unable to take care of her whenshe was born, and brought her to the pastor of our Pirgacha Mission a few hoursafter birth. Here immediately our cook adopted her. Now she is “her daughter,”one more in the family. Every day the cook takes her here, and here sheis the daughter of everybody. We all love her, play with her, surround her withaffection. Today, for example, Fr. Apollo has taken her for a short ride on hisbike; and, as you can see in the picture, the girl was delighted. I realizethat every day thousands of little, wonderful things happen. Thank you, Lord,for the generosity of the family who adopted Kolli, for the beautiful smilethat Kolli shows us every day. And keep giving me lessons on Humanity andChristianity through the poor.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1wviVjQIpTY/TrJkbkdlp7I/AAAAAAAAAq0/l8BPwMciptg/s1600/kolli+%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1wviVjQIpTY/TrJkbkdlp7I/AAAAAAAAAq0/l8BPwMciptg/s400/kolli+%25281%2529.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;Esta preciosidad que veis aquí se llama Kolli. Sucorta historia se parece a la de Marcelino Pan y Vino. Sus padres no quisierono no pudieron hacerse cargo de ella cuando nació, y se la trajeron al párrocode nuestra Misión de Pirgacha a las pocas horas de nacer. Aquí en seguida lacocinera la adoptó. Ahora es “su hija”, una más en la familia. Todos los díasla trae y la lleva, y aquí es la hija de todos. Todos la queremos, jugamos conella, la rodeamos de cariño. Hoy por ejemplo, el P. Apollo, le ha dado unavueltecita en su moto, como puedes ver en la foto; la niña estaba encantada dela vida. Me doy cuenta de que cada día pasan miles de cosas pequeñas, peromaravillosas. Gracias, Señor, por la generosidad de la familia que ha adoptadoa Kolli, por la preciosa sonrisa con la que Kolli nos obsequia cada día. Ysigue dándome lecciones de humanidad y cristianismo a través de los pobres.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-5843941213713958215?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/5843941213713958215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=5843941213713958215&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5843941213713958215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5843941213713958215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/11/marcelina-pan-y-vino-marcelino-bread.html' title='“Marcelina” Pan y Vino. “Marcelino Bread and Wine”'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1wviVjQIpTY/TrJkbkdlp7I/AAAAAAAAAq0/l8BPwMciptg/s72-c/kolli+%25281%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-4088197601240903318</id><published>2011-10-31T20:57:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-10-31T20:57:06.994+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='martyrs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bugobe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hermanos maristas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rwanda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uwavutse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='congo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='martires'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marist brothers'/><title type='text'>Hermanos de Bugobe. Brothers of Bugobe</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Today it’s 15years since that afternoon, after school on Save (Rwanda), when I learned ofthe death of Servando, Miguel Angel, Julio and Fernando, our Brothers whoworked in the Bugobe refugee camp in neighboring Congo. The Superior Generalhad asked for volunteers to go help Rwanda after the war and the genocide of1994. Some of us raised a hand and had the honor of being chosen for themission. Four of us went to the interior, and four others were sent to arefugee camp outside. The four of us are still alive today (Alvaro, Rene, Juanjoand I). The four who went to Bugobe gave their lives for the people they workedwith. Those were days of tremendous bustle back and forth, phone calls,uncertainty, fear. But over time, it’s more and more evident the tremendous courageof these four Marist Brothers, and the love with which they lived and died.Servando, Miguel Angel, Julio, Fernando, from heaven, pray for us.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gVkec-hpLLk/Tq626owirNI/AAAAAAAAAqs/_1fWPT0n_0c/s1600/Bugobe+%252834%2529_jpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="222" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gVkec-hpLLk/Tq626owirNI/AAAAAAAAAqs/_1fWPT0n_0c/s400/Bugobe+%252834%2529_jpg.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;Hace hoy 15 años desde que aquella tarde, al salir declase en Save (Rwanda), me enteré de la muerte de Servando, Miguel Angel, Julioy Fernando, nuestros Hermanos que trabajaban en el campo de refugiados deBugobe en el vecino Congo. El H. Superior General había pedido voluntarios parair a ayudar a Rwanda después de la guerra y el genocidio de 1994. Algunoslevantamos el dedo y tuvimos el honor de ser elegidos para la misión. Cuatrofuimos al interior del país, y cuatro fueron enviados al campo de refugiados enel exterior. Nosotros cuatro estamos hoy vivos (Alvaro, René, Juanjo y unservidor). Los cuatro que fueron a Bugobe dieron su vida por la gente con laque trabajaban. Fueron días de tremendo ajetreo, idas y venidas, llamadastelefónicas, incertidumbre, miedo. Pero con el tiempo, a mí me queda muy claroel tremendo valor de aquellos cuatro Hermanos Maristas, y el amor con el quevivieron y murieron. Servando, Miguel Angel, Julio, Fernando, desde el cielo,rezad por nosotros.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-4088197601240903318?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/4088197601240903318/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=4088197601240903318&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/4088197601240903318'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/4088197601240903318'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/10/hermanos-de-bugobe-brothers-of-bugobe.html' title='Hermanos de Bugobe. Brothers of Bugobe'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gVkec-hpLLk/Tq626owirNI/AAAAAAAAAqs/_1fWPT0n_0c/s72-c/Bugobe+%252834%2529_jpg.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-3953507458251055182</id><published>2011-10-26T08:13:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-10-26T08:13:18.090+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gift'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='regalo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='george valle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bangladesh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marist brothers'/><title type='text'>Con nocturnidad, pero sin alevosía. A gift from God called George</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Bro. Georgehas come to Bangladesh; he will be my companion in Pirgacha community. I'vebeen waiting his arrival for centuries; he has been waiting to come as amissionary to Bangladesh for centuries. It’s been twelve long months ofwaiting, but now he is here. George is Filipino, cheerful, friendly, talkative,and enthusiastic. After passing customs clearance, and picking up his bags, heran toward us laughing like a child and shouting: "I'm finally inBangladesh, blessed be God!" He is going to be a gift from God to the young peoplein Pirgacha . But for now, he's already a godsend fo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt; me.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XFiIhnjE1xU/TqdpzdnBFOI/AAAAAAAAAqY/kq0RAqiZy7Y/s1600/george.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="222" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XFiIhnjE1xU/TqdpzdnBFOI/AAAAAAAAAqY/kq0RAqiZy7Y/s400/george.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Ha llegado a Bangladesh el H. George, que será mi compañerode comunidad en Pirgacha. Llegó anoche al aeropuerto, con nocturnidad pero sinalevosía. Llevaba siglos esperándole; él llevaba siglos esperando poder venircomo misionero a Bangladesh. Han sido doce largos meses de espera, pero ya estáaquí. George es filipino, alegre, simpático, hablador, entusiasta. Cuando pasólos trámites de aduana, y recogió sus maletas, salió corriendo hacia dondeestábamos esperándole riendo como un niño y gritando: “¡Por fin estoy enBangladesh, bendito sea Dios!”Va a ser un don de Dios para los jóvenes dePirgacha. Pero de momento, ya es un regalo de Dios para mí.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-3953507458251055182?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/3953507458251055182/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=3953507458251055182&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3953507458251055182'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3953507458251055182'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/10/con-nocturnidad-pero-sin-alevosia-gift.html' title='Con nocturnidad, pero sin alevosía. A gift from God called George'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XFiIhnjE1xU/TqdpzdnBFOI/AAAAAAAAAqY/kq0RAqiZy7Y/s72-c/george.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-9142434238154576769</id><published>2011-10-21T15:54:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-10-21T21:21:33.251+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marista'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wangala'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uwavutse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pirgacha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bangladesh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mandi'/><title type='text'>Wangala. Life is beautiful. La vida es bella. Jibon holo shundor.</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Today,October 21, has taken place the Wangala Mandi Festival of the end of theharvesting. More than 5,000 people have come to this celebration that mixedancestral rites and Christian rites. It is very interesting especially theoldest part of the ceremony in which the elderly offered the fruits of theharvest to God through gestures, symbols, forgotten words, dance and songs. Allaccompanied by ancient instruments that make your hair stand on end when youlisten to them. Big feast day for the Mandi, an occasion to celebrate thefruits collected from the generous hand of God, a day to celebrate that we arealive and can we live fully. Time to say and sing from the rooftops that lifeis beautiful, in spite of everything. Here I put some pics with the mostinteresting moments of the day. &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/oEuI3jxKAks"&gt;You can also watch this YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"&gt;Hoy, 21 de octubre, ha tenido lugar el Wangala, el Festival Mandi del fin de las cosechas. Más de 5,000 personas han acudido a esta celebración en la que se mezclan ritos ancestrales y ritos cristianos. Es interesantísimo sobre todo la parte más antigua del ceremonial en la que los ancianos ofrecen los frutos de la cosecha a Dios mediante gestos, símbolos, palabras olvidadas, danzas y canciones. Todo ello acompañado de instrumentos antiquísimos que te ponen los pelos de punta cuando los escuchas. Día de fiesta grande para los Mandi, ocasión para celebrar los frutos recogidos de la mano generosa de Dios, día para celebrar que estamos vivos y podemos seguir viviendo plenamente. Tiempo para decir y cantar a los cuatro vientos que la vida es bella, a pesar de los pesares. Aquí pongo algunas fotos con los momentos más interesantes del día.&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/oEuI3jxKAks"&gt; También puedes mirar este YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qNdqeZ5VJwQ/TqE-pK5AiQI/AAAAAAAAAow/ZpawCxu5QyE/s1600/wangala%2B2011%2B%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qNdqeZ5VJwQ/TqE-pK5AiQI/AAAAAAAAAow/ZpawCxu5QyE/s320/wangala%2B2011%2B%25281%2529.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oVqH8HoD_KU/TqE-qPFmjyI/AAAAAAAAAo8/6Ev_fiXiC0Q/s1600/wangala%2B2011%2B%25282%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Life is beautiful. La vida es bella. Jibon holo shundor.'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qNdqeZ5VJwQ/TqE-pK5AiQI/AAAAAAAAAow/ZpawCxu5QyE/s72-c/wangala%2B2011%2B%25281%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-304147782415383939</id><published>2011-10-17T12:50:00.004+06:00</published><updated>2011-10-17T12:51:02.905+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Buen espíritu. Good spirit</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Leaves arealready starting to fall down in Pirgacha. And every day the boys in theboarding school have to spend a long time to sweep, do heaps with them andsetting them alight. As you can see in the movie, they do it with good humor.These kids are used to working and helping at home, and here they do it as well.People here are accustomed to a sober life without luxuries. They resistworking a lot more than I do and have greater capacity for effort and sacrificethan I do.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nHia6SCJD8c" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Ya están empezando a caer las hojas de los árboles enPirgacha. Y todos los días los chicos del internado tienen que dedicar un buenrato a barrer, hacer montones con ellas y prenderles fuego. Como puedes ver enla película, lo hacen con buen humor. Estos chavales están acostumbrados atrabajar y a ayudar en sus casas, y aquí también lo hacen. Son genteacostumbrada a una vida sobria, sin lujos. Resisten trabajando mucho más que yoy tienen mayor capacidad de esfuerzo y sacrificio.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-304147782415383939?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/304147782415383939/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=304147782415383939&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/304147782415383939'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/304147782415383939'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/10/buen-espiritu-good-spirit.html' title='Buen espíritu. Good spirit'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/nHia6SCJD8c/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-3257886884890510213</id><published>2011-10-13T17:36:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-10-13T17:37:37.433+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Maestros. Teachers</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;The bannerreads "World Teacher’s Day -2011." Today we have celebrated it in ourlittle school. There were also teachers from some primary schools around. Sothose you see here are the team trying to carry out education in Pirgacha area.We are Muslims, Hindus and Christians, men and women, Bengali, Mandis and oneEuropean. We are underpaid. Many do not make ends meet. The training theyreceived was not the best scientific nor pedagogically. But they are peoplewith a great deal of goodwill. They do not know many things, but try to teachwith perseverance, in a rural school in the middle of the jungle, with verylimited resources, but with enough dedication. They deserve applause andhomage. Serve this post as my consideration of these good people.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o-j3rlGY6D0/TpbMxxxUQXI/AAAAAAAAAok/ehtzEugD8vk/s1600/SAM_0342.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="235" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o-j3rlGY6D0/TpbMxxxUQXI/AAAAAAAAAok/ehtzEugD8vk/s400/SAM_0342.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;En la pancarta pone “Jornada mundial del Profesor-2011”. Hoy lo hemos celebrado en nuestra escuelita. Han venido tambiénprofesores y profesoras de las escuelas primarias de alrededor. Así que estos yéstas que aquí veis somos el equipo que intentamos llevar adelante la educaciónen la zona de Pirgacha. Somos musulmanes, hindúes y cristianos; hombres ymujeres; bengalíes, mandis y un europeo. Estamos mal pagados. Muchos no llegana fin de mes. La formación que recibieron no fue la mejor ni científica ni pedagógicamente.Pero son gente con una gran dosis de buena voluntad. No saben muchas cosas,pero intentan enseñarlas con tesón y dedicación, en una escuela rural, en mediode la jungla, sin grandes medios, pero con bastante dedicación. Se merecen unaplauso y un homenaje. Sirva este post como mi consideración por esta buenagente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-3257886884890510213?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/3257886884890510213/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=3257886884890510213&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3257886884890510213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3257886884890510213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/10/maestros-teachers.html' title='Maestros. Teachers'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o-j3rlGY6D0/TpbMxxxUQXI/AAAAAAAAAok/ehtzEugD8vk/s72-c/SAM_0342.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-5423127693824066132</id><published>2011-10-12T11:43:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-10-12T11:43:24.457+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Qué cosas pasan… These things happen ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;At Elenga,on my way from Dhaka to Pirgacha, I found this curiosity: A fan that playsbasketball or a basket feeling hot?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;En Elenga, camino de Dhaka a Pirgacha, me encontré con estacuriosidad: ¿Un ventilador que juega al baloncesto o una canasta que tienecalor?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P2GFNrAGGkA/TpUojg8j8YI/AAAAAAAAAoY/ftixT-2ASzM/s1600/SAM_0333.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P2GFNrAGGkA/TpUojg8j8YI/AAAAAAAAAoY/ftixT-2ASzM/s640/SAM_0333.JPG" width="481" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-5423127693824066132?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/5423127693824066132/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=5423127693824066132&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5423127693824066132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5423127693824066132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/10/que-cosas-pasan-these-things-happen.html' title='Qué cosas pasan… These things happen ...'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P2GFNrAGGkA/TpUojg8j8YI/AAAAAAAAAoY/ftixT-2ASzM/s72-c/SAM_0333.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-6755127695140843661</id><published>2011-10-09T19:51:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-10-09T19:51:59.033+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Su paso por mi vida. Their passage through my life</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;These kidsare the Class 10 boarders of this year. Tomorrow exams will begin at school,and later on they will take the national exam. They are going to be quite busyin the next months. So, today they decided to come and take this picture withme as a souvenir of their passage through the internship, as a reminder of theboarding passage through their lives. I will keep the picture as a souvenir oftheir passage through my life, and (although much hope) I hope they will keepit as a souvenir of my passage through their lives. Of course they are notalways that serious and formal as in the photo ... Lord, make them grow andbecome good Christians and good citizens.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_3-8w0c9mYM/TpGmQ0gNi1I/AAAAAAAAAoQ/KhBw7svjAoQ/s1600/class%2B10%2B2011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="342" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_3-8w0c9mYM/TpGmQ0gNi1I/AAAAAAAAAoQ/KhBw7svjAoQ/s400/class%2B10%2B2011.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Estos chavales son los internos de la clase 10 de este año.Mañana empiezan los exámenes en la escuela, y después tendrán que presentarseal examen nacional. Van a ser unos meses moviditos para ellos. Así que hoydecidieron venir y hacerse esta foto conmigo, como un recuerdo de su paso porel internado, como un recuerdo del paso del internado por sus vidas. Yoguardaré la foto como un recuerdo de su paso por mi vida, y (aunque es muchoesperar) espero que ellos la guarden como un recuerdo de mi paso por sus vidas.Por supuesto que no siempre son tan serios y formales como aparecen en la foto…Señor, hazlos crecer y llegar a ser buenos cristianos y buenos ciudadanos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-6755127695140843661?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/6755127695140843661/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=6755127695140843661&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6755127695140843661'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6755127695140843661'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/10/su-paso-por-mi-vida-their-passage.html' title='Su paso por mi vida. Their passage through my life'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_3-8w0c9mYM/TpGmQ0gNi1I/AAAAAAAAAoQ/KhBw7svjAoQ/s72-c/class%2B10%2B2011.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-5939722442471390544</id><published>2011-09-29T15:30:00.002+06:00</published><updated>2011-09-29T15:30:55.914+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Bangladesh rural. Rural Bangladesh</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;This time Ijust post a few scenes from the rural Bangladesh in which I live. Ithink that, without words, they give an accurate idea about the daily lifeof these people. Another day I promise to post craftsmen pictures.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;--------------------&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Esta vez me limito a poner unas cuantas fotos de escenas delBangladesh rural en el que vivo. Creo que, sin palabras, dan una imagenbastante certera de la realidad diaria de estas gentes. Otro día prometo ponerfotos de artesanos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tJU0hYIpIBw/ToQ0ggIb8MI/AAAAAAAAAnw/rZnt5JGn4sI/s1600/Rural+Bangladesh+%252827%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tJU0hYIpIBw/ToQ0ggIb8MI/AAAAAAAAAnw/rZnt5JGn4sI/s320/Rural+Bangladesh+%252827%2529.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3TDBHE88bgI/ToQ1WPS934I/AAAAAAAAAn0/qgJuFT94k6Y/s1600/Rural+Bangladesh+%252856%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3TDBHE88bgI/ToQ1WPS934I/AAAAAAAAAn0/qgJuFT94k6Y/s320/Rural+Bangladesh+%252856%2529.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6kLe32pRVew/ToQ2LGxdyaI/AAAAAAAAAn4/SwiAwAVm5M8/s1600/Rural+Bangladesh+%252863%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6kLe32pRVew/ToQ2LGxdyaI/AAAAAAAAAn4/SwiAwAVm5M8/s320/Rural+Bangladesh+%252863%2529.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8u3kwZw8I5c/ToQ3BKZlrpI/AAAAAAAAAn8/yqeGMjiJlZM/s1600/Rural+Bangladesh+%252876%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8u3kwZw8I5c/ToQ3BKZlrpI/AAAAAAAAAn8/yqeGMjiJlZM/s320/Rural+Bangladesh+%252876%2529.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--5U2eZAquTE/ToQ4vDcTooI/AAAAAAAAAoE/0tlr0dW89eg/s1600/Rural+Bangladesh+%2528103%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--5U2eZAquTE/ToQ4vDcTooI/AAAAAAAAAoE/0tlr0dW89eg/s320/Rural+Bangladesh+%2528103%2529.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ejwjNF0IUiw/ToQ5ixbUQxI/AAAAAAAAAoI/C3Tn96F7AXw/s1600/Rural+Bangladesh+%252826%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ejwjNF0IUiw/ToQ5ixbUQxI/AAAAAAAAAoI/C3Tn96F7AXw/s320/Rural+Bangladesh+%252826%2529.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-5939722442471390544?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/5939722442471390544/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=5939722442471390544&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5939722442471390544'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5939722442471390544'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/09/bangladesh-rural-rural-bangladesh.html' title='Bangladesh rural. Rural Bangladesh'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tJU0hYIpIBw/ToQ0ggIb8MI/AAAAAAAAAnw/rZnt5JGn4sI/s72-c/Rural+Bangladesh+%252827%2529.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-5423618695533703192</id><published>2011-09-22T21:28:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-09-22T21:29:05.611+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Los regalos se hacen por el gusto del que regala, no por mérito del que recibe. Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not for the merits of who receives them.</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Afterschool this afternoon there was a group of boys sitting and talking and eatingpeanuts. They called me from afar. "Hey, Brother, sit with us for a while."I sat with them and one offered me a bag of peanuts for me alone. I hesitatedwhether to accept it or not, because I know that he is poor, and I was about to rejectit and to tell him to keep it for himself. (In general, I find it hard toaccept gifts from people poorer than me). Then I remembered the words of CarlosRuiz Zafrón in "The Shadow of the Wind": "Presents are made forthe pleasure of who gives them, not for the merits of who receives them."And I saw pleasure in the boy's eyes when I took the peanuts and ate it withhim and his friends. It was like an image of God, who gives us gifts every day,not because we deserve them, but because he loves making gifts, because he enjoysloving us. Thank you, Lord, for coming to me today under the guise of a 12year-old boy.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9wpQBth8tvo/TntTpNqqLRI/AAAAAAAAAnk/hi6wq1ATka0/s1600/students%2B%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9wpQBth8tvo/TntTpNqqLRI/AAAAAAAAAnk/hi6wq1ATka0/s400/students%2B%25281%2529.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Al salir de clase esta tarde había un grupo de muchachossentados charlando y comiendo cacahuetes. Me llamaron desde lejos. “Eh,Hermano, siéntate con nosotros un rato”. Me senté con ellos y uno me ofrecióuna bolsa con cacahuetes para mí solito. Me dio reparo aceptarlo, porque sé queno anda sobrado de dinero, y estuve a punto de rechazarlo y de decirle que selos comiera él. (En general, me cuesta aceptar regalos de gente más pobre queyo). Entonces me acordé de la frase de Carlos Ruiz Zafrón en “La sombra delviento”: “Los regalos se hacen por el gusto del que regala, no por mérito delque recibe”. Y vi ese gusto en los ojos del muchacho cuando acepté loscacahuetes y me los comí con él y sus amigos. Era como una imagen de Dios, quenos da regalos todos los días, no porque los merezcamos, sino porque le encantahacer regalos, porque le gusta querernos. Gracias, Señor, por venir a mí hoybajo la apariencia de un muchacho de 12 años.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-5423618695533703192?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/5423618695533703192/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=5423618695533703192&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5423618695533703192'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5423618695533703192'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/09/los-regalos-se-hacen-por-el-gusto-del.html' title='Los regalos se hacen por el gusto del que regala, no por mérito del que recibe. Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not for the merits of who receives them.'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9wpQBth8tvo/TntTpNqqLRI/AAAAAAAAAnk/hi6wq1ATka0/s72-c/students%2B%25281%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-1876653788320107816</id><published>2011-09-18T22:43:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-09-18T22:43:28.322+06:00</updated><title type='text'>El terremoto. Earthquake. Bhumikompo</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Sunday.Seven o'clock in the evening. I'm at home reading. Suddenly the hostel boysburst into my room; they are nervous, one almost crying. "Whathappens," I asked in alarm. "Bhumikompo, Brother." There hasbeen an earthquake a few minutes ago. I haven’t felt anything; it seems I wasembedded in the reading. The kids tell me that the ground and the ceiling trembledin their dormitory. They ask me my cell phone to call their families. I sitwith them for over an hour, chatting, telling funny, scary and ghosts stories.They laugh, get scared, and laugh again. We have fun for a while. They calmdown, and I send them to study again. I put them near the gates, with orders to runif the ground moves again. At night, everyone should sleep on the lower part of thedouble beds. I enter the Internet and learn that earthquake strength has been 6.8;the epicenter is in India, 500 km away from here in the foothills of theHimalayas. After all this noise, I wonder how come I was the only one in the villagewho have not felt the earthquake ... I must be a fool.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Domingo. Siete de la tarde. Estoy en mi casa leyendo. Depronto los chicos del internado irrumpen en mi habitación, están nerviosos, unocasi llorando. “Qué pasa”, pregunto alarmado. “Bhumikompo, Brother”. Ha habidoun terremoto hace unos minutos. Yo ni me he enterado; se ve que estaba embebidoen la lectura. Los chavales me explican que el suelo ha temblado, así como eltecho de su dormitorio. Me piden el teléfono para llamar a sus familias. Mesiento con ellos durante más de una hora, charlando, contándoles historiasdivertidas e otras de miedo y fantasmas. Ríen, se asustan, vuelven a reír. Lopasamos bien durante un buen rato. Se tranquilizan, y les mando a estudiar otravez. Les coloco cerca de las puertas, con encargo de salir corriendo si elsuelo se vuelve a mover. Por la noche, todos deberán dormir en la cama de abajode las literas. Consulto Internet y me entero de que ha sido de fuerza 6.8; elepicentro está en India, a 500 km de aquí, en la cordillera de los Himalayas. Despuésde todo este barullo, me pregunto cómo es posible que yo haya sido el único entodo el pueblo que no he sentido el terremoto… Debo estar medio tonto.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-1876653788320107816?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/1876653788320107816/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=1876653788320107816&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1876653788320107816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1876653788320107816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/09/el-terremoto-earthquake-bhumikompo.html' title='El terremoto. Earthquake. Bhumikompo'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-3298526536324158937</id><published>2011-09-15T11:17:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-09-15T11:17:39.247+06:00</updated><title type='text'>La lección del pobre. A lesson from the poor</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Thismorning I went to the market at Dokhala to buy a little something I needed.It's a couple of miles away from Pirgacha. It was hot and I decided to go byrickshaw. When I got back I took 20 taka (30 cents) from the pocket to pay thefare, and then happened what had never happened yet to me: the rickshawalla(Tricycle driver) tells me I do not owe anything, it's free. I insisted onpaying, because he had done a hard job, because he is poor, because ...because, dammit. There was no way for him to charge me. After much discussion,the good man says: "Bless me and pray for me; that's enough." “Ishor apnakeashirbad korun" I said, and prayed for him and his family. Imagine, I wasjust coming from the market to buy things that I can probably do without‼ Whata great lesson this man has given me. There are things more important thanmoney, even when you're poor. Amazing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-holsWvTkiAo/TnGJ-DJwAQI/AAAAAAAAAnc/oztLDstJNNY/s1600/DSCN6461.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-holsWvTkiAo/TnGJ-DJwAQI/AAAAAAAAAnc/oztLDstJNNY/s400/DSCN6461.JPG" width="232" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Esta mañana he ido al mercado de Dokhala a comprar algunacosilla que me hacía falta. Está a un par de kilómetros de Pirgacha. Hacíacalor y decidí ir en rickshaw. Al volver saqué del bolsillo 20 takas (20céntimos de euro) para pagar la carrera, y entonces ocurrió lo que nunca mehabía ocurrido todavía: el rickshawalla (conductor del triciclo) me dice que nole debo nada, que es gratis. Insistí en pagar, porque había hecho un durotrabajo, porque es una persona pobre, porque… porque sí, caramba. No hubo manerade que me cobrara. Después de mucho discutir, el buen hombre me dice: “Bendícemey reza por mí; eso me basta”. “Ishor apnake ashirbad korun”, le dije y recé porél y su familia. Y yo que venía del mercado, de comprarme cosas de las queseguramente puedo prescindir… Qué gran lección me ha dado este señor. Hay cosasmucho más importantes que el dinero, incluso cuando eres pobre. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-3298526536324158937?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/3298526536324158937/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=3298526536324158937&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3298526536324158937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3298526536324158937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/09/la-leccion-del-pobre-lesson-from-poor.html' title='La lección del pobre. A lesson from the poor'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-holsWvTkiAo/TnGJ-DJwAQI/AAAAAAAAAnc/oztLDstJNNY/s72-c/DSCN6461.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-4098100787102969651</id><published>2011-09-07T14:39:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-09-07T14:39:51.424+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Ha venido Messi a Bangladesh. Messi in Bangladesh</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Yesterday Argentinanational football team has played a friendly match against Nigeria here inDhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Days before, Bangladeshis were quite excited,especially young people. Messi is an idol here. Everyone watched the game on TV;people crowded around small television sets screaming like maniacs every timeMessi touched the ball. By contrast, the stadium was not full because inBangladesh very few can afford paying US$ 100 (7,000 taka) to watch a footballgame. I have heard that Argentina got 2 million dollars to come to play here(last week they played in Calcutta). I wonder if the players from Argentina andMessi in particular are aware that they have charged for 90 minutes as much ashundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis together in a month. There are millionsof people in this country earning less than US$ 3 a day to work as farmers,carpenters, rickshawalas, etc. To charge those amounts in Europe or America seemsunethical to me, but to do so in the poorest country in Asia gives meheartache.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L3snnK1uAwQ/TmctrYhZN8I/AAAAAAAAAnM/8Fnu2J5DhtM/s1600/sigue-la-messimania-miles-de.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="223" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L3snnK1uAwQ/TmctrYhZN8I/AAAAAAAAAnM/8Fnu2J5DhtM/s400/sigue-la-messimania-miles-de.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;La selección nacional de fútbol de Argentina ha jugado ayer unpartido amistoso contra Nigeria aquí en Dhaka, la capital de Bangladesh. Desdedías antes, los bangladeshís estaban absolutamente excitados, especialmente losjóvenes. Messi es un icono aquí. Todo el mundo vio el partido por la tele, lagente se agolpaba en torno a los pequeños televisores gritando como energúmenoscada vez que Messi tocaba la pelota. Por el contrario el estadio no llegó allenarse porque en Bangladesh son muy pocos los que pueden pagar 100 dólares(7,000 takas) para ver un partido de fútbol. Dicen que la selección argentinaha cobrado 2 millones de dólares por venir a jugar aquí (la semana anteriorjugó en Calcuta). Yo me pregunto si los jugadores de Argentina, y Messi enparticular son conscientes de que han cobrado por 90 minutos de juego tantocomo cientos de miles de bangladeshís juntos en un mes. Son millones loshabitantes de este país que cobran menos de 3 dólares al día por trabajos como agricultores,carpinteros, rickshawalas, etc. Que se cobren esas cantidades en países deEuropa o América, me parece poco ético, pero que lo hagan en el país más pobrede Asia me da dolor de corazón.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-4098100787102969651?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/4098100787102969651/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=4098100787102969651&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/4098100787102969651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/4098100787102969651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/09/ha-venido-messi-bangladesh-messi-in.html' title='Ha venido Messi a Bangladesh. Messi in Bangladesh'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L3snnK1uAwQ/TmctrYhZN8I/AAAAAAAAAnM/8Fnu2J5DhtM/s72-c/sigue-la-messimania-miles-de.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-7296903701343133624</id><published>2011-09-04T09:43:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-09-04T09:57:12.180+06:00</updated><title type='text'>If you don't understand my silence, you will not understand my words. Si no comprendes mis silencios, ¿cómo podrás comprender mis palabras?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QNh3eFVRbWI/TmL19tqv-9I/AAAAAAAAAm8/UxLA_Ff5fJA/s1600/taize%2B%25284%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QNh3eFVRbWI/TmL19tqv-9I/AAAAAAAAAm8/UxLA_Ff5fJA/s320/taize%2B%25284%2529.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Sometimes God remains silent, sometimes He speaks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;A veces Dios se calla, a veces habla.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b9qfVXORcfM/TmL2tr4ILRI/AAAAAAAAAnE/6bEZZvaZZiY/s1600/vieja%2Bvecina.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b9qfVXORcfM/TmL2tr4ILRI/AAAAAAAAAnE/6bEZZvaZZiY/s320/vieja%2Bvecina.JPG" width="271" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-7296903701343133624?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/7296903701343133624/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=7296903701343133624&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/7296903701343133624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/7296903701343133624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/09/if-you-dont-understand-my-silence-you.html' title='If you don&apos;t understand my silence, you will not understand my words. Si no comprendes mis silencios, ¿cómo podrás comprender mis palabras?'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QNh3eFVRbWI/TmL19tqv-9I/AAAAAAAAAm8/UxLA_Ff5fJA/s72-c/taize%2B%25284%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-2297994984173541315</id><published>2011-08-30T15:27:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-08-30T15:27:50.355+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Se acabó el dinero, búscate un trabajo! No more money, find a job!</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Liptu is a15-year-old student in our school of Pirgacha. His family is poor and cannotafford to pay 10 dollars a month for him to stay at the parish boarding, sothat each day he comes and goes from home to school. This means walking 12 kmin the morning and so in the evening, daily. In the village where he lives thereis no electricity, so he has to study by candlelight or oil lamps.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;He cametoday to my house almost in tears. His mother has told him leave the school andfind a job. No more money at home, not even 5 dollars per month to pay forschooling. His father left home long ago and his mother can’t manage thesituation any longer.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Liptu getsgood grades, is smart, and could progress in life if he finishes his studies.He knows it. And suddenly all his dreams have come down. "We cannotcontinue paying for your studies. You have to find a job.” I assured him that we'llhelp him, that I am sure that someone with a good heart will pay not only forschool but also his internship so he can study in good condition. His face thenwas lit up and he showed me his best smile. Lord, help him; may no child be leftout of school for lack of 15 dollars a month, please!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_plxJoMM1_c/Tlys2y6XesI/AAAAAAAAAm0/iTfgpzI71jM/s1600/DSC00477.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_plxJoMM1_c/Tlys2y6XesI/AAAAAAAAAm0/iTfgpzI71jM/s400/DSC00477.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Liptu es un muchacho de 15 años que estudia en nuestraescuela de Pirgacha. Su familia es bastante pobre y no puede permitirse pagarlos 7 euros al mes para estar en el internado de la parroquia, de manera quecada día va y viene de su casa al colegio. Esto significa andar 12 kilómetrosde ida y otros tantos de vuelta. En la aldea en la que vive no hay luzeléctrica, así que tiene que estudiar a la luz de velas o quinqués.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hoy se ha presentado en mi casa casi llorando. Su madre leha dicho que tiene que dejar de estudiar y buscar trabajo. No hay más dinero encasa, ni siquiera los 3 euros mensuales para pagar la escolarización. El padrese fue de casa hace tiempo y la madre ya no da para más.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Liptu saca buenas notas, es inteligente, podría progresar enla vida si terminase los estudios. Él lo sabe. Y de repente todos sus sueños sehan venido abajo. “No podemos seguir pagando tus estudios. Tienes que buscartrabajo”. Le he asegurado que le vamos a ayudar, que seguro que alguien de buencorazón pagará no sólo la escuela, sino también su internado para que puedaestudiar en buenas condiciones. Se le ha iluminado la cara y me ha mostrado lamejor de sus sonrisas. ¡Señor, ayúdale, que ningún niño se quede sin estudiarpor falta de 10 euros al mes, por favor!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-2297994984173541315?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/2297994984173541315/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=2297994984173541315&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/2297994984173541315'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/2297994984173541315'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/08/se-acabo-el-dinero-buscate-un-trabajo.html' title='Se acabó el dinero, búscate un trabajo! No more money, find a job!'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_plxJoMM1_c/Tlys2y6XesI/AAAAAAAAAm0/iTfgpzI71jM/s72-c/DSC00477.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-7165047958694704586</id><published>2011-08-24T16:00:00.002+06:00</published><updated>2011-08-24T19:51:40.658+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Omor and Guillaume</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xuQVlyOG_jM/TlTLIw0n2VI/AAAAAAAAAmg/zemNe65nqtg/s1600/omor%2Bguillaume.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xuQVlyOG_jM/TlTLIw0n2VI/AAAAAAAAAmg/zemNe65nqtg/s320/omor%2Bguillaume.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;He is about9 years old. Omor is his name. He lives in the streets with his mother. He hasno history, doesn’t go to school, extremely poor. Many days he comes for lunch tothe Taizé Brothers’ house in Mymensingh, where I have come to have my retreat.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;The otherone is Brother Guillaume, a holy man, a man of God, the Superior of theBrothers of Taizé, who arrived in Bangladesh more than 30 years ago. Respectedby all, his mere presence makes you feel God's presence. Busy man in a thousandcases, an expert in ecumenical dialogue and in many other things.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Well, aftereating, Omor asks Guillaume: "Let’s sing a while, okay?" AndGuillaume, with all his humanity, sits on the floor next to Omor, he listens tohis singing, sings with him; applaud when each song ends, for over half anhour. The boy is ecstatic, he has found someone who listens to him, who loveshim. Guillaume focuses on this "insignificant and unimportant" child asif accompanying the Prime Minister or the pope, giving him all his attentionand affection.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;DoublePresence of God: the poor and the saint, the child and the wise man. Thanks, my God, for giving me thisexcellent lecture during my retreat.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Rhl5fuJT6j4/TlTLjW9tjqI/AAAAAAAAAmo/nDkv6tdrDk8/s1600/omor.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Rhl5fuJT6j4/TlTLjW9tjqI/AAAAAAAAAmo/nDkv6tdrDk8/s320/omor.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Tendrá unos 9 años. Se llama Omor. Vive con su madre, en lacalle. No tiene historia, no va a la escuela, pobre de solemnidad. Muchos díasse viene a comer a la casa que los Hermanos de Taizé tienen en Mymensingh,adonde he venido a hacer unos días de retiro. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;El otro es Brother Guillaume, un santo varón, un hombre deDios, el Superior de los Hermanos de Taizé, que llegó a Bangladesh hace más de30 años. Respetado por todos. Su sola presencia te hace sentir la presencia deDios. Hombre muy ocupado en mil asuntos, experto en el diálogo ecuménico y enmuchas otras cosas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Pues bien, después de comer, Omor le pide a Guillaume: “Vamosa cantar un rato, ¿vale?” Y Guillaume, con toda su humanidad, se sienta en elsuelo al lado de Omor, le escucha cantar, canta con él, aplaude cuando terminacada canción, durante más de media hora. El chaval está exultante, haencontrado alguien que le escucha, que le quiere. Guillaume se centra en esteniño “insignificante y sin importancia” como si estuviera acompañando al PrimerMinistro o al Papa, prestándole toda su atención y su cariño.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Doble presencia de Dios: el pobre y el santo, el niño y el sabio. Gracias, Diosmío, por darme esta excelente conferencia durante mi retiro.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-7165047958694704586?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/7165047958694704586/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=7165047958694704586&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/7165047958694704586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/7165047958694704586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/08/omor-and-guillaume.html' title='Omor and Guillaume'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xuQVlyOG_jM/TlTLIw0n2VI/AAAAAAAAAmg/zemNe65nqtg/s72-c/omor%2Bguillaume.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-4935903013116580776</id><published>2011-08-24T09:17:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-08-24T09:17:04.345+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Buena Madre. Good Mother</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="WordSection1"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Mary, GoodMother. Hail Mary.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Sweetnessof God. Hail Mary.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Finesse,delicacy.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;All thelove of God made motherly heart.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Hail Mary.Hail Mary.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;When I haveno desire or strength,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;to standbefore God, I only get the "Hail Mary."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Once, onceagain.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;And againand again. Hail Mary.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;As thewaves coming one right after another.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Hail Mary.Hail Mary.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Thesimplest prayer, measure of times and distances.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Maternalpresence of God.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Presence ofGod.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Hail Mary.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Recoursewhen there is no recourse.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Prayer whenthere is no prayer.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Consolationwhen there is no consolation.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Life whenthere is no life.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hail Mary. Hail Mary.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tWgaA0GhqJM/TlRs0T58A2I/AAAAAAAAAmY/dNXoAhogjDY/s1600/buena%2Bmadre.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" id=":current_picnik_image" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tWgaA0GhqJM/TlRs0T58A2I/AAAAAAAAAmY/dNXoAhogjDY/s400/buena%2Bmadre.jpg" width="272" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;María, Buena Madre. Dios te salve, María.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Dulzura de Dios. Dios te salve, María.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Finura, delicadeza.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Todo el amor de Dios hecho corazón maternal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Dios te salve, María. Dios te salve, María.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Cuando no tengo ganas, o fuerza, o vergüenza torera&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;de ponerme delante de Dios, sólo me sale el “Dios te salve,María.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Una vez, otra vez.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Y otra y otra. Dios te salve, María.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Como las olas del mar, que llegan repetidas, una detrás deotra.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Dios te salve, María. Dios te salve, María.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;La oración más simple.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Manera de medir tiempos y distancias.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Presencia maternal de Dios.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Presencia de Dios.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Dios te salve, María.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Recurso cuando no hay recurso.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Oración cuando no hay oración.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Consuelo cuando no hay consuelo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Vida cuando no hay vida.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Dios te salve, María. Dios te salve, María.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;br clear="all" style="mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: always;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-4935903013116580776?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/4935903013116580776/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=4935903013116580776&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/4935903013116580776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/4935903013116580776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/08/buena-madre-good-mother.html' title='Buena Madre. Good Mother'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tWgaA0GhqJM/TlRs0T58A2I/AAAAAAAAAmY/dNXoAhogjDY/s72-c/buena%2Bmadre.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-7285866269317254592</id><published>2011-08-13T08:25:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-08-13T08:25:30.569+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Jornada Mundial de la Juventud. World Youth Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;From WorldYouth Day (WYD) they have asked me a 90 seconds video contribution on the topic"Teaching the ignorant." This is what I have sent. (It is in Spanish)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Desde la Jornada Mundial de la Juventud (JMJ) me han pedido una contribución de 90 segundos de vídeo sobre el tema “Enseñar al que no sabe”. Esto es lo que he mandado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8OfUhyfxqXQ" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-7285866269317254592?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/7285866269317254592/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=7285866269317254592&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/7285866269317254592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/7285866269317254592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/08/jornada-mundial-de-la-juventud-world.html' title='Jornada Mundial de la Juventud. World Youth Day'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/8OfUhyfxqXQ/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-2170341465650805238</id><published>2011-08-09T17:01:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-08-09T17:01:30.467+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Lluvia y más lluvia. Raining and raining. Bonna</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nF3dKkhhaRE/TkES88y-0EI/AAAAAAAAAmA/R75iF5Z4lIk/s1600/bonna%2B%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nF3dKkhhaRE/TkES88y-0EI/AAAAAAAAAmA/R75iF5Z4lIk/s200/bonna%2B%25281%2529.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Within 24hours my house has become an island and so those of many people in Pirgacha. Ithas been raining heavily for more than 20 hours and all the fields around got flooded,as you can see in the photos. What now looks like a big lake, are actually ricefields. They are the death throes of the monsoon. At least this year's harvestwill be great. &lt;/span&gt;Thank God.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O5GM0qyl0xs/TkETMY9dBDI/AAAAAAAAAmI/23nrfmgK1co/s1600/bonna%2B%25286%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O5GM0qyl0xs/TkETMY9dBDI/AAAAAAAAAmI/23nrfmgK1co/s200/bonna%2B%25286%2529.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;En menos de 24 horas mi casa se ha convertido en una isla, asícomo la de muchos habitantes de Pirgacha. Ha estado lloviendo a cántarosdurante más de 20 horas y se han inundado todos los campos de alrededor, comopuedes ver en las fotos. Lo que ahora se ve como un gran lago, son en realidadcampos de arroz. Son los últimos coletazos del monzón. Al menos este año lacosecha será estupenda. Gracias a Dios.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-2170341465650805238?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/2170341465650805238/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=2170341465650805238&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/2170341465650805238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/2170341465650805238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/08/lluvia-y-mas-lluvia-raining-and-raining.html' title='Lluvia y más lluvia. Raining and raining. Bonna'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nF3dKkhhaRE/TkES88y-0EI/AAAAAAAAAmA/R75iF5Z4lIk/s72-c/bonna%2B%25281%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-8537160215492164130</id><published>2011-08-04T15:03:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-08-04T15:03:18.630+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Anjilus Soren</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;I am Anjilus Soren, son of Jamil Soren. I am a college student living at Radhanagar village&amp;nbsp;with my&amp;nbsp;parents. Radhanagar is a parish about 35 Kilometer east of Dinajpur town in Bangladesh. Chokarhat is a village market&amp;nbsp;and it is one kilometer away from my village. There are some tea&amp;nbsp;restaurants in this market&amp;nbsp;but I cannot get tea from there. Restaurant keepers refuse giving me tea&amp;nbsp;because I am&amp;nbsp;a&amp;nbsp;Christian Santali tribal boy. If I touch the tea cup, it will be unholy.&amp;nbsp;Local Bengali Muslims hate us. Santali tribal are not allowed to drink tea at Chokarhat&amp;nbsp;tea&amp;nbsp;restaurant.&amp;nbsp;It pains me to mention how much we struggle for our survival. We are behind economically, neglected politically and ignored socially. Sometimes, we don’t get human respect because of our background situation. We are double minority as tribal and Christian.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;(Anjilus is 17 years old. He belongs to the Santali tribe, which lives in Bangladesh and India.)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6lIuVNh73sc/Tjpf3XQ4KcI/AAAAAAAAAl4/tleKClzuOgQ/s1600/anjilus%2B-%2Bcopia.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6lIuVNh73sc/Tjpf3XQ4KcI/AAAAAAAAAl4/tleKClzuOgQ/s320/anjilus%2B-%2Bcopia.JPG" width="222" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Soy Anjilus Soren, hijo de Jamil Soren. Soy estudiante de bachillerato y vivo en Radhanagar con mis padres. Radhanagar es un pueblo a unos 35 km al este de Dinajpur, en Bangladesh. Hay un mercado llamado Chokarhat a un kilómetro de mi pueblo. Allí hay varios restaurantes, pero no puedo tomar té en ellos. Los camareros no quieren servirme té porque soy un cristiano de la tribu Santali. Si toco una taza de té, dicen, quedará impura. Los bengalíes musulmanes nos aborrecen. A los miembros de la tribu Santali no se nos permite beber té en los restaurantes. Me duele mucho decir lo que sufrimos para sobrevivir. Estamos económicamente atrasados, políticamente abandonados y socialmente ignorados. Con frecuencia no se respeta nuestra humanidad por causa de nuestro origen tribal. Estamos doblemente discriminados, por ser tribales y por ser cristianos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;(Anjilus tiene 17 años y pertenece a la tribu Santali, presente en Bangladesh e India)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-8537160215492164130?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/8537160215492164130/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=8537160215492164130&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/8537160215492164130'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/8537160215492164130'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/08/anjilus-soren.html' title='Anjilus Soren'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6lIuVNh73sc/Tjpf3XQ4KcI/AAAAAAAAAl4/tleKClzuOgQ/s72-c/anjilus%2B-%2Bcopia.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-5187378060820507859</id><published>2011-07-31T16:19:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-07-31T16:19:57.450+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Tú vida, ya la has dado. You have already given your life. Ta vie, tu l’as déjà donnée</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Today I dare to recommend you a movie, “Of Gods and Men” (Des homes et des dieux). It is about the last months of the monks assassinated in Algeria in 1994. I especially remember the words the Superior says to one of the monks, afraid of dying, “Staying here is as mad as becoming a monk. Remember. You’ve already given your life. You gave it by following Christ when you decided to leave everything: your life, your family, your country, the family you could have raised.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LbN9bNzsHvE/TjUsI_GBNfI/AAAAAAAAAlw/cr6mg7seQzo/s1600/hommes%2Bdieux.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="317" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LbN9bNzsHvE/TjUsI_GBNfI/AAAAAAAAAlw/cr6mg7seQzo/s400/hommes%2Bdieux.bmp" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hoy me atrevo a recomendar una película a aquellos que no la hayan visto aún. Se trata de “De dioses y hombres” (Des hommes et des dieux) acerca de los últimos meses de vida de los monjes asesinados en Argelia en 1994. Me quedo con las palabras del superior a uno de los monjes que tiene miedo a morir: “Quedarse aquí es tan loco como lo fue hacerse monje en su momento. Tu vida ya la has dado. La diste el día que decidiste seguir a Cristo y dejarlo todo: tu vida, tu familia, tu país, la familia que hubieras podido crear”.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-5187378060820507859?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/5187378060820507859/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=5187378060820507859&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5187378060820507859'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5187378060820507859'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/07/tu-vida-ya-la-has-dado-you-have-already.html' title='Tú vida, ya la has dado. You have already given your life. Ta vie, tu l’as déjà donnée'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LbN9bNzsHvE/TjUsI_GBNfI/AAAAAAAAAlw/cr6mg7seQzo/s72-c/hommes%2Bdieux.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-2301503256201306572</id><published>2011-07-27T09:43:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-07-27T09:43:11.638+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Rickshawala</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;¿Would you take 150 kg of pineapple 10 km away on a tricycle for 75 cents, by hot or cold weather, by day or by night? Neither would I. But in Bangladesh there are people who do it, whose job is that, and at that price. The rickshawalas transport, based on manpower, goods and people. They tend to be lean, thin, austere, frail looking, but with muscles of steel. Note that only the tricycle (rickshaw) weighs almost 100 kg. I tried to take a move and I could not advance even 5 meters, I almost went to the gutter with the all thing. The rickshaw does not normally belong to them; the boss asks somewhat by day or week, the rest is for them. That’s why they do a superhuman job (or rather sub-human) to have something to take home. People do not treat them well; they insult them, bargain prices. I admire them a lot; if I can, I use their services and do not discuss the price; I often give them more than they ask. After all they spend most of their energy helping people going where they have to go, like the angels do...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nlz28j8pcxY/Ti-JKiCcs2I/AAAAAAAAAlo/z9q3W8PTae8/s1600/richshawallah%2B-%2Bcopia.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nlz28j8pcxY/Ti-JKiCcs2I/AAAAAAAAAlo/z9q3W8PTae8/s400/richshawallah%2B-%2Bcopia.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;¿Llevarías 150 kilos de piñas a 10 km de distancia en un triciclo por 50 céntimos de euro, haga frío o calor, llueva o truene, de día o de noche? Yo tampoco. Pero en Bangladesh hay gente que lo hace, cuyo oficio es ése y a ese precio. Los rickshawalas transportan, a base de músculo, mercancías y personas. Suelen ser gente enjuta, delgada, austera, de apariencia enclenque, pero con unos músculos de acero. Ten en cuenta que sólo el triciclo (rickshaw) ya pesa casi 100 kilos. Yo intenté llevar uno y fui incapaz de avanzar ni siquiera 5 metros, casi me voy a la cuneta con todo el equipo. El rickshaw normalmente no les pertenece; el jefe les pide un tanto por día o por semana, el resto es para ellos. Por eso hacen un trabajo sobrehumano (o más bien infrahumano) para tener algo que llevar a casa. La gente no les trata bien; les insulta, discute el precio a la baja. Yo les tengo una gran admiración; si puedo, utilizo sus servicios y no discuto el precio, incluso les doy más de lo que piden. Al fin y al cabo dedican la mayor parte de su energía a ayudar a la gente a ir adonde deben, como los ángeles…&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-2301503256201306572?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/2301503256201306572/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=2301503256201306572&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/2301503256201306572'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/2301503256201306572'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/07/rickshawala.html' title='Rickshawala'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nlz28j8pcxY/Ti-JKiCcs2I/AAAAAAAAAlo/z9q3W8PTae8/s72-c/richshawallah%2B-%2Bcopia.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-7213472691972453176</id><published>2011-07-21T17:18:00.002+06:00</published><updated>2011-07-21T17:20:19.226+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Los caminos se convierten en ríos. Roads become rivers</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64829708@N00/5960275803/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="266" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6149/5960275803_a33d45a6d5_m.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 2px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px;" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What you see in the picture is not a river, is the way to go to one of the many villages around Pirgacha. It is monsoon time, the rainy season; in Bangla is called "Borshakal." It can rain at any time, sometimes for hours. The result is what you see: water everywhere. It's a blessing that enables this land’s extraordinary fecundity, but on the other hand makes communications and travels terribly difficult. Fr Apollo, one of the priests of our mission, goes every day to visit and say Mass at a different village with his motorbike, even in this rainy season. Hardly a day that he is not wet to the skin, and often the bike slips, he falls down and reaches absolutely mud-covered the places he goes to. It's really admirable the fervor of these Bengalis priests and the work they do to help the small Christian communities of Bangladesh. God will reward them for having been his arms and hands. I wish I had half their enthusiasm in my work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esto que ves aquí no es un río, es el camino para ir a una de las muchas aldeas alrededor de Pirgacha. Estamos en pleno monzón, la estación de lluvias; en bangla se llama “borshakal”. Puede llover en cualquier momento, a veces durante horas. El resultado es el que ves: agua por todas partes. Es una bendición que permite a esta tierra una fertilidad extraordinaria, pero por otra parte hace terriblemente difíciles las comunicaciones y los viajes. El P. Apolo, uno de los sacerdotes de nuestra misión, va cada día a visitar y decir Misa a una aldea diferente, con su moto, incluso en este tiempo de lluvias. Es raro el día que no viene calado hasta los huesos y con frecuencia la moto se resbala, se cae, y llega cubierto de barro allá a donde va. Es realmente admirable el celo de estos curas bengalíes y el trabajo que hacen por ayudas a las pequeñas comunidades cristianas de Bangladesh. Dios les va a premiar el haber sido sus brazos y sus manos. Ojalá tuviera yo la mitad de su entusiasmo en mi trabajo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-7213472691972453176?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/7213472691972453176/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=7213472691972453176&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/7213472691972453176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/7213472691972453176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/07/los-caminos-se-convierten-en-rios-roads.html' title='Los caminos se convierten en ríos. Roads become rivers'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6149/5960275803_a33d45a6d5_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-9050378413064325216</id><published>2011-07-16T15:41:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-07-16T15:41:32.331+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Luna llena. Full moon</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"&gt;In heryouth she must have been very beautiful; still she is at her seventy-odd years.But her beauty is now serene and mature. Here you see her coming from themarket where she bought something. Every day I see her sweeping the courtyardof his house slowly slowly. Sometimes she is seen picking up leaves from thebushes because she knows all their secrets: which leaves are good for cold, orfever, or diarrhea, or even for her grandson to pass the exams. By the way, hergrandson said to me one day that she knows several leaves and roots to sweetlypoison people. Every time I meet her, with much solemnity she join her hands ather forehead to greet me while her mouth opens giving way to the most beautifuland wonderful smile. She always lived here but, by accidents of history, she wasfirst Indian, then Pakistani and now she is Bangladeshi. Repository of wisdom,inexhaustible source of stories and tales, all surround her old age withrespect and affection until the Lord would one day take her to heaven. By the way,her name is Purnima, which means "full moon"&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BFCXwA0h1VM/TiFcUwR_fBI/AAAAAAAAAlE/1NKR9--WKtI/s1600/viejecita+-+copia.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BFCXwA0h1VM/TiFcUwR_fBI/AAAAAAAAAlE/1NKR9--WKtI/s400/viejecita+-+copia.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"&gt;En su juventud debió ser muy guapa; aún lo es a sus setentay pico años. Pero su belleza ahora es además serena y madura. Ahí la vesviniendo del mercado de comprar qué sé yo qué. Todos los días la veo barriendodespacito despacito el patio de su casa. Otras veces se le ve recogiendo hojasde los arbustos, porque ella sabe todos los secretos: qué hojas son buenas parael constipado, o para la fiebre, o para la diarrea, o incluso para que su nietoapruebe el examen. Por cierto que su nieto me dijo un día que ella conocevarias hojas y raíces para envenenar dulcemente a la gente. Cada vez que mecruzo con ella, se para y con mucha solemnidad junta sus manos a la altura dela frente para saludarme a la vez que su boca se abre dando paso a la más bellay maravillosa de las sonrisas. Siempre ha vivido aquí pero, por azares de lahistoria, primero fue india, luego pakistaní y ahora bangladeshí. Depósito desabiduría, fuente inagotable de cuentos e historias, en su ancianidad todos larodean de respeto y cariño hasta que el Señor un día se la lleve la jungla delcielo. Por cierto, se llama Purnima, que significa “luna llena”.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-9050378413064325216?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/9050378413064325216/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=9050378413064325216&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/9050378413064325216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/9050378413064325216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/07/luna-llena-full-moon.html' title='Luna llena. Full moon'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BFCXwA0h1VM/TiFcUwR_fBI/AAAAAAAAAlE/1NKR9--WKtI/s72-c/viejecita+-+copia.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-1210337173483719843</id><published>2011-07-12T14:43:00.002+06:00</published><updated>2011-07-12T14:47:51.779+06:00</updated><title type='text'>La puerta. The gate</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64829708@N00/5929119899/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="266" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6013/5929119899_ae48be740a_m.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 2px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px;" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Government has granted to our school an aid of 1.500 US$ (100.000 taka) to ... build a gateway to the campus. Now they will have a beautiful gate with the school name in large letters and bright colors. They have also already put a banner explaining everything as you can see in the picture. And I'm puzzled, because view the school situation, I would have preferred to regularize electricity supply, or water suply, or to build walls to separate four classes whose walls are rotting wooden panels, or to buy books or sports equipment ... anything but an superfluous gate, please! And therein is the big difference between my European, functional mentality, and their eastern mentality, because I have to say that here everyone is happy with the gate, from the headmaster to the last student. And they see nothing better that could have been done with 1.500 dollars. What can I do! I am who I am, and cannot change my mind, but I can try to understand their mind, their habits, their way of facing life. Help me, Lord.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El Gobierno ha concedido a nuestra escuela una ayuda de 1,000 euros (100,000 takas) para… construir una gran puerta de acceso al recinto escolar. Ahora van a tener una hermosa puerta con el nombre de la escuela en grandes letras y vivos colores. Además han puesto ya una pancarta explicándolo todo, como puedes ver en la foto. Y yo me quedo con cara de tonto, porque vista la situación de la escuela, yo hubiera preferido que regularizaran el paupérrimo suministro eléctrico, o el de agua, o que construyeran muros para separar cuatro clases cuyas paredes son paneles carcomidos de madera, o para comprar libros, o material deportivo… ¡cualquier cosa menos una puerta, por favor! Y ahí está la gran diferencia entre mi mentalidad europea y funcional, y su mentalidad oriental, porque aquí está todo el mundo encantado con la puerta, desde el director hasta el último alumno. Y no ven nada mejor que se hubiera podido hacer con los 1,000 euros. ¡Qué le voy a hacer! Yo soy como soy y muchas cosas no las puedo cambiar de mi mente, pero sí puedo intentar comprender su mente, sus costumbres, su manera de ver la vida. Ayúdame, Señor.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-1210337173483719843?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/1210337173483719843/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=1210337173483719843&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1210337173483719843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1210337173483719843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/07/la-puerta-gate.html' title='La puerta. The gate'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6013/5929119899_ae48be740a_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-6396296953133493840</id><published>2011-07-10T20:13:00.005+06:00</published><updated>2011-07-13T16:15:14.934+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='adobe house'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paint'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uwavutse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pirgacha'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bangladesh'/><title type='text'>No es tan fiero como lo pintan. It isn't as black as it's painted</title><content type='html'>'Interesting if you understand bangla.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interesante si entiendes el bangla.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/g-sSfbSMLyE" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-6396296953133493840?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/6396296953133493840/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=6396296953133493840&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6396296953133493840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6396296953133493840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/07/no-es-tan-fiero-como-lo-pintan-it-isn.html' title='No es tan fiero como lo pintan. It isn&apos;t as black as it&apos;s painted'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/g-sSfbSMLyE/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-8864367846035026923</id><published>2011-07-05T20:02:00.002+06:00</published><updated>2011-07-05T20:04:08.258+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Guru</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64829708@N00/5905161996/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="300" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5071/5905161996_87558ac077_m.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 2px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px;" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He phoned me almost in tears. He is one of our students (2nd from left in photo) that ended in our school last year. To continue his studies he had to leave the village and go to the city, like many others. There his family found a seedy room in the basement of a house where they were asked 30 dollars a month. They agreed, but after a couple of days the landlord got another boy and later someone else. Things got worse when the landlord gave him 24 hours to leave, without any explanation. "I am calling you to pray for me," he says between sobs. The boy is a Hindu, but he calls me because I am a religious supposedly a "man of God." I promise to pray and encourage him a bit. Two days later he called again. "Thanks," he says. "Why?" "Because thanks to your prayers I found another place to live." He has faith, this boy. When it finds new room cannot think that it was by luck or by the efforts of his mother, he believes it was through prayer. In the years I am living in Bangladesh, more and more I realize that people do not expect us to make large financial aid or social work. To those who know us, we are gurus, "people close to God," and expect us to really be. From us they expect prayers, blessings, and to be images of God's love. Nothing more nothing less.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me llamó por teléfono casi llorando. Es uno de nuestros alumnos (el 2º por la izquierda en la foto) que terminó en nuestra escuela el año pasado. Para continuar los estudios ha tenido que irse del pueblo a la ciudad, como muchos otros. Allí su familia encontró una habitación de mala muerte en los bajos de una casa, por la que le pedían 20 euros al mes. Aceptaron, pero al cabo de un par de días el casero metió a otro muchacho y al poco a otra persona. La cosa se complicó cuando el casero le dio 24 horas para marcharse de allí, así sin contemplaciones. “Te llamo para que reces por mi”, me dice entre sollozos. El muchacho es hindú, pero se dirige a mí porque soy un religioso, teóricamente un “hombre de Dios”. Le prometo rezar y le animo un poco. Dos días después me vuelve a llamar. “Gracias”, me dice. “¿Por qué?” “Porque gracias a tu oración he encontrado otro sitio donde vivir”. Tiene fe, este chico. Cuando encuentra nueva habitación no se le ocurre pensar que ha sido por suerte, o por las gestiones de su madre; él cree que ha sido gracias a la oración. En los años que voy pasando en Bangladesh, me voy dando cuenta que la gente no espera de nosotros grandes ayudas económicas o hacer un trabajo social. Para la mayoría de los que nos conocen somos gurus, “personas cercanas a Dios”, y esperan de nosotros que realmente lo seamos. De nosotros esperan oración, bendición, y ser imágenes del amor de Dios. Ni más ni menos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-8864367846035026923?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/8864367846035026923/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=8864367846035026923&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/8864367846035026923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/8864367846035026923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/07/guru.html' title='Guru'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5071/5905161996_87558ac077_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-3132182614517496213</id><published>2011-07-04T10:43:00.002+06:00</published><updated>2011-07-04T10:46:14.759+06:00</updated><title type='text'>No estamos solos. We are not alone</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64829708@N00/5896966566/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5277/5896966566_c645d31e9f_m.jpg" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last weeks, for various reasons, we are only three Brothers left in Bangladesh. Holidays and sickness are responsible for some colleagues leaving temporarily the country. And we felt a bit solitude. But then, from Rome the Superior General has sent Br. Teofilo to visit us on his behalf and bring back the feeling that we are not alone, that there are many people behind us supporting us, praying for us, remembering us. Thank you, Teofilo, for coming. Thanks, Emili, for sending him. I hope, with the help of our Good Mother, we will be able to take root in this Bengali land.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta última temporada, por diversas razones, estamos sólo tres Hermanos en Bangladesh. Vacaciones y enfermedades han hecho que algunos compañeros hayan tenido que dejar temporalmente el país. Y nos quedaba un poco la sensación de soledad. Pero hete aquí que desde Roma el Superior General nos ha enviado al H. Teófilo para visitarnos en su nombre y traernos de nuevo la sensación de que no estamos solos, que hay mucha gente detrás de nosotros apoyándonos, rezando por nosotros, acordándose de nosotros. Gracias, Teófilo, por venir. Gracias, Emili, por enviarle. Ojalá que seamos capaces, con la ayuda de nuestra Buena Madre, de echar raíces en esta tierra bengalí.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-3132182614517496213?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/3132182614517496213/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=3132182614517496213&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3132182614517496213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3132182614517496213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/07/no-estamos-solos-we-are-not-alone.html' title='No estamos solos. We are not alone'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5277/5896966566_c645d31e9f_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-138673968408671892</id><published>2011-06-28T14:12:00.002+06:00</published><updated>2011-06-28T14:16:37.299+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Saltar al vacío. Jump into the void</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64829708@N00/5880388516/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="165" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5192/5880388516_6e95dca4c3_m.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 2px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; cursor: move;" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Now that is hot in Bangladesh (when it stops raining), the kids come to cool off in the pool of the Mission after school. They cry, swim, splash, give each other a ducking, and jump from the small dock. It's nice to see them and I gladly would enter the water ... if it were not so dirty. This photo evokes deep feelings in me: to jump into the void. In fact that is what we do in life when we get in God's hands. "Jump!” I hear in my inner being. "I'm afraid," I reply. "Fear not, I am with you" is the answer. And sometimes I jump ... and sometimes not. Give me courage, Lord, to follow you in the small and large jumps you ask me to take every day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahora que hace calor en Bangladesh (cuando deja de llover), los chavales vienen después de clase a refrescarse en el estanque de la Misión. Gritan, nadan, chapotean, se hacen aguadillas, y saltan desde el pequeño muelle. Da gusto verles y de buena gana me metería yo en el agua… si no estuviera tan sucia. Esta foto evoca en mí sentimientos profundos: saltar al vacío. En el fondo es lo que hacemos en la vida cuando nos ponemos en manos de Dios. “¡Salta!”, oigo en mi interior. “Me da miedo”, respondo. “No tengas miedo, yo estoy contigo”, es la respuesta. Y a veces salto,… y a veces no. Dame valor, Señor, para seguirte en los pequeños y grandes saltos que me pides dar cada día.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-138673968408671892?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/138673968408671892/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=138673968408671892&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/138673968408671892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/138673968408671892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/06/saltar-al-vacio-jump-into-void.html' title='Saltar al vacío. Jump into the void'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5192/5880388516_6e95dca4c3_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-4411372502558752659</id><published>2011-06-24T13:26:00.002+06:00</published><updated>2011-06-26T06:37:24.352+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Las tres culturas. Three cultures</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64829708@N00/5865986670/" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3197/5865986670_1a69899553_m.jpg" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the picture below you can see Brother Mark and I with three teachers at the school where we work. The curious thing about the picture is that the three teachers belong to three different religions: Muslim, Hindu and Christian. It should also be noted that the difference is not only of religious practice, is also (and perhaps more than anything) a cultural difference, customs, clothing, food, drink, marriage ... The whole life. Well, our school is a living example of that coexistence is possible and rewarding, both for students and teachers. We all know about others and try to respect each other and not to offend each other with words or actions. May this God in whom we believe help us continue on this path of tolerance that will lead one day to unity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En la foto estamos el Hermano Mark y yo con tres profesores de la escuela en la que trabajamos. Lo curioso de la foto es que los tres profesores pertenecen a tres religiones diferentes: un musulmán, un hindú y un cristiano. Además hay que tener en cuenta que la diferencia no es sólo de práctica religiosa, es además (y quizá más que nada) una diferencia cultural: las costumbres, el vestido, la comida, la bebida, el matrimonio,… Toda la vida. Pues bien, nuestra escuela es un ejemplo vivo de que la convivencia es posible y enriquecedora, tanto a nivel de alumnos como de profesores. Todos sabemos cosas de los demás, y tratamos de respetarnos y no ofendernos mutuamente con palabras o acciones. Ojalá que este Dios en el todos creemos nos ayude a seguir en este camino de tolerancia que nos llevará un día a la unidad.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-4411372502558752659?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/4411372502558752659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=4411372502558752659&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/4411372502558752659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/4411372502558752659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/06/las-tres-culturas-three-cultures.html' title='Las tres culturas. Three cultures'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3197/5865986670_1a69899553_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-6409609626831257127</id><published>2011-06-14T08:18:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-06-14T08:18:57.853+06:00</updated><title type='text'>La misma vieja y triste historia. Same old sad story</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;I recommend you read &lt;a href="http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=189633"&gt;this article in the Daily Star&lt;/a&gt; (Bangladeshi newspaper) about the working conditions of many children in Bangladesh, especially in Dhaka, the capital. It tells the stories of Rubel (8 years old), Maidul (10), Shakib (5) and Shohel (14), working 12 hours a day, without any safety measures, often handling toxic substances, and who earn less than one dollar a day. I hope the families of these and other children realize that the best place for their children is the school, however difficult the circumstances, however miserable their life could be. May God help us all make them understand. Insh Allah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="250" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p8tQeXG3mFs/TfbEOWUH_VI/AAAAAAAAAkY/pN1Qc2plc5k/s400/SAM_2556.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Te recomiendo que leas &lt;a href="http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=189633"&gt;este artículo del Daily Star&lt;/a&gt; (diario de Bangladesh, en inglés) acerca de las condiciones de trabajo de muchos niños en Bangladesh, especialmente en Dhaka, la capital. Cuenta las historias de Rubel (8 años), Maidul (10), Shakib (5) y Shohel (14), que trabajan jornadas de 12 horas, sin ninguna medida de seguridad, frecuentemente manejando sustancias tóxicas, y que ganan menos de un euro al día. Ojalá las familias de estos y otros niños se den cuenta de que el mejor lugar para sus hijos es la escuela, por muy difícil que sean las circunstancias, por muy miserable que sea su vida. Que Dios nos ayude a hacérselo entender a todos. Ojalá.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-6409609626831257127?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/6409609626831257127/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=6409609626831257127&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6409609626831257127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6409609626831257127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/06/la-misma-vieja-y-triste-historia-same.html' title='La misma vieja y triste historia. Same old sad story'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p8tQeXG3mFs/TfbEOWUH_VI/AAAAAAAAAkY/pN1Qc2plc5k/s72-c/SAM_2556.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-3129450407071025547</id><published>2011-06-11T19:41:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-06-11T19:41:50.293+06:00</updated><title type='text'>24 horas de cielo. 24 hours of heaven</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;My brother Gonzalo and his colleague Alfonso, on business trip to Bangladesh, have had the nice gesture of coming to see me in Pirgacha for a 24-hour visit. It’s been a moment of heaven for me. They have brought me lots of things from family and friends. To all, thanks you for your kindness: Thanks to Luis for the medicines, Pepe for the documents, Mom and Pablo for the stamps, other anonymous for cookies, turrón, movies ... But above all, what Gonzalo and Alfonso have brought me is the joy of being able to chat in my mother tongue for a few hours, the warmth of friendship, love, confidence, courage, and so many things that cannot be said with words. Angels are messengers of God, so I can say that yesterday a couple of angels appeared to me ... not to mention the one who easied it all, Sudip. Today my heart sings with joy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kYYPxvAM3Jg/TfNv8YdWXLI/AAAAAAAAAkU/I6EYAuocFOw/s1600/10062011101.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="225" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kYYPxvAM3Jg/TfNv8YdWXLI/AAAAAAAAAkU/I6EYAuocFOw/s400/10062011101.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Mi hermano Gonzalo y su colega Alfonso, en viaje de negocios por Bangladesh, han tenido el detalle de acercarse a hacerme una visita de 24 horas aquí a Pirgacha. Han sido unos momentos de cielo para mí. Me han traído montones de cosas de parte de familiares y amigos. A todos os agradezco vuestros detalles: gracias a Luis por las medicinas, a Pepe por los documentos, a Mamá y Pablo por las estampitas, a otras personas anónimas por las galletas, el turrón, las películas… Pero sobre todo, lo que Gonzalo y Alfonso me han traído ha sido la alegría de poder charlar en español durante unas horas, el calor de la amistad, cariño, confianza, ánimo, y tantas cosas que no se pueden decir con palabras. Los ángeles son enviados de Dios; así que puedo decir con toda propiedad que ayer se me aparecieron los ángeles… sin olvidar al que lo facilitó todo, Sudip. Hoy mi alma canta de alegría.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-3129450407071025547?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/3129450407071025547/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=3129450407071025547&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3129450407071025547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3129450407071025547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/06/24-horas-de-cielo-24-hours-of-heaven.html' title='24 horas de cielo. 24 hours of heaven'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kYYPxvAM3Jg/TfNv8YdWXLI/AAAAAAAAAkU/I6EYAuocFOw/s72-c/10062011101.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-3253763802211829578</id><published>2011-06-04T16:36:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-06-04T16:36:26.678+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Él llama a quien quiere, cuando quiere y como quiere. He calls whom He wills, when and how He wants.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_nsjDSggGoM/TeoJbpKHRzI/AAAAAAAAAjc/uHJbyc1h13Q/s1600/P4220142.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_nsjDSggGoM/TeoJbpKHRzI/AAAAAAAAAjc/uHJbyc1h13Q/s320/P4220142.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;I feel moved to write a note about these four boys. The pictures were taken at their homes, with their families, when Brother Mark visited them few days ago. As you can see, they are simple and hardworking people. They have finished high school and want to be Marist Brothers. The families agree, so we do. We do not know what the future holds, whether they will persevere... or take another route. Life is very long and the Lord leads us where He wants and not where we want. But in my heart I get a great joy to see that our lifestyle and our mission to educate young people has been echoed by several young hearts just two years after we put our feet in this blessed place of Pirgacha, in the Modhupur Jungle. Blessed be God for everything he does in us.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k-zgzNaCNtE/TeoJiv0zDNI/AAAAAAAAAjg/YqJSZhv-LOM/s1600/P4220144.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k-zgzNaCNtE/TeoJiv0zDNI/AAAAAAAAAjg/YqJSZhv-LOM/s320/P4220144.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qWqMLcPSVSw/TeoJqBfPlhI/AAAAAAAAAjk/kZa1u4HzCO0/s1600/P4230146.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qWqMLcPSVSw/TeoJqBfPlhI/AAAAAAAAAjk/kZa1u4HzCO0/s320/P4230146.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;No me resisto a escribir una nota acerca de estos cuatro chavales. Las fotos están tomadas en sus casas, con sus familias, cuando el Hermano Mark fue a visitarles hace unos días. Como ves, son gente humilde y trabajadora. Han acabado los estudios secundarios y quieren ser Hermanos Maristas. Las familias están de acuerdo. Nosotros también. No sabemos lo que el futuro les depara, si llegarán… o tomarán otro camino. La vida es muy larga y el Señor nos guía por donde Él quiere y no por donde nosotros queremos. Pero me sale de dentro una enorme alegría al ver que nuestro estilo de vida y nuestra misión de educar a los jóvenes ha encontrado eco en varios jóvenes corazones tan sólo dos años después de que pusiéramos nuestros pies en este bendito lugar de Pirgacha, en la jungla de Modhupur. Bendito sea Dios por todo lo que hace en nosotros.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_du25fplbH0/TeoJxLe4g4I/AAAAAAAAAjo/7CkuayAx77A/s1600/P4230150.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_du25fplbH0/TeoJxLe4g4I/AAAAAAAAAjo/7CkuayAx77A/s320/P4230150.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-3253763802211829578?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/3253763802211829578/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=3253763802211829578&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3253763802211829578'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3253763802211829578'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/06/el-llama-quien-quiere-cuando-quiere-y.html' title='Él llama a quien quiere, cuando quiere y como quiere. He calls whom He wills, when and how He wants.'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_nsjDSggGoM/TeoJbpKHRzI/AAAAAAAAAjc/uHJbyc1h13Q/s72-c/P4220142.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-8119570229466915227</id><published>2011-05-30T11:35:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-05-30T11:35:46.954+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Fortaleza interior. Inner strength.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;This tree was almost uprooted during one of the recent storms that have struck us last week. Many other trees are still standing around, some with broken branches, but still standing. As you can see in the picture, it fell because it was rotten inside. What a moving image, right? It happens to people as well, when storms come to our life; some resist and others fall down. The reason to fall or stand is not the storm, but our inner strength.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RIhFA46b1HE/TeMsdRneDQI/AAAAAAAAAjY/u2FMQZeTLP8/s1600/arbol+caido.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RIhFA46b1HE/TeMsdRneDQI/AAAAAAAAAjY/u2FMQZeTLP8/s400/arbol+caido.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Este árbol fue prácticamente arrancado de cuajo en una de las últimas tormentas que nos han sacudido en los últimos días. Muchos otros árboles alrededor siguen de pie, algunos con alguna rama rota, pero de pie. Como puedes ver en la foto, éste cayó porque ya estaba podrido por dentro. Qué sugerente imagen, ¿verdad? Nos pasa igual a las personas; cuando vienen tormentas en la vida, unos resisten y otros se caen. La razón para caerse o quedarse de pie no es la tormenta, sino nuestra fortaleza interior.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-8119570229466915227?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/8119570229466915227/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=8119570229466915227&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/8119570229466915227'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/8119570229466915227'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/05/fortaleza-interior-inner-strength.html' title='Fortaleza interior. Inner strength.'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RIhFA46b1HE/TeMsdRneDQI/AAAAAAAAAjY/u2FMQZeTLP8/s72-c/arbol+caido.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-8143367556637249195</id><published>2011-05-23T15:09:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-05-23T15:09:02.515+06:00</updated><title type='text'>El monzón ha llegado temprano. The monsoon has arrived early</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"&gt;Today at nine o'clock the day became dark, it was almost dark, and at one point it started to rain as if there was a hole in the sky. This year the monsoon has come a few weeks earlier. It rains every day, often with thunder and lightning. Water, water and more water. We will be suffer/enjoy it for a couple of months.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oxfMhFfxJww?hl=es&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oxfMhFfxJww?hl=es&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc;"&gt;Hoy a las nueve de la mañana el día se oscureció, se hizo casi de noche, y en un momento empezó a caer agua como si se hubiera hecho un agujero en el cielo. Este año se ha adelantado unas semanas el monzón. Llueve cada día, con frecuencia con rayos y truenos. Agua, agua y más agua. Lo sufriremos/gozaremos durante un par de meses.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-8143367556637249195?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/8143367556637249195/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=8143367556637249195&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/8143367556637249195'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/8143367556637249195'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/05/el-monzon-ha-llegado-temprano-monsoon.html' title='El monzón ha llegado temprano. The monsoon has arrived early'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-283806084587373121</id><published>2011-05-17T09:51:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-05-17T09:57:49.750+06:00</updated><title type='text'>El niño es el padre del hombre. The Child is father of the Man.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Wordsworth said that the child is father of the man. We will always keep with us what we learn in our childhood. The first thing you learn is the last thing you forget. The children you see in the picture are taking home part of the rice crop from their parents’ field, on top of a bicycle. They help their family to reap and transport the rice from a very young age. They participate in the works to the extent of its possibilities, and also participate in the joy of harvest and subsequent festivities. Therefore, when they get adult, they will be austere, used to work hard and not to have many amenities. Hardened people, yet loving family celebrations. They will carry with them all their lives what they have experienced and learned from their childhood. I have much to learn from these people who are satisfied with much less than I do, who need less things to be happy. Lord, thank you for teaching me through these children: austerity, love of work, endurance, ability to celebrate, and so many other things.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1vG038137Ps/TdHwHgP20wI/AAAAAAAAAjU/-q5gi52EBU4/s1600/cosecha.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1vG038137Ps/TdHwHgP20wI/AAAAAAAAAjU/-q5gi52EBU4/s400/cosecha.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Decía Wordsworth que el niño es el padre del hombre. Lo que aprendemos en la niñez lo llevaremos siempre con nosotros. Lo primero que se aprende es lo último que se olvida. Los niños que ves en la foto están llevando a casa parte de la cosecha de arroz del campo de sus padres, a lomos de una bicicleta. Ayudan a su familia a segar y transportar el arroz desde que son muy pequeños. Participan en los trabajos en la medida de sus posibilidades, y participan también en la alegría de la cosecha y los festejos que la acompañan. Por eso, de mayores van a ser personas austeras, acostumbrados a trabajar mucho y a no tener muchas comodidades. Gente aguerrida y a la vez &amp;nbsp;amantes de las celebraciones en familia. Llevarán consigo toda su vida lo que han vivido y aprendido de niños. Cuánto tengo que aprender de estas gentes que se conforman con mucho menos que yo, que necesitan menos cosas que yo para ser felices. Señor, gracias por enseñarme a través de estos niños la austeridad, el amor al trabajo bien hecho, la capacidad de celebrar, y tantas otras cosas más.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-283806084587373121?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/283806084587373121/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=283806084587373121&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/283806084587373121'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/283806084587373121'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/05/el-nino-es-el-padre-del-hombre-child-is.html' title='El niño es el padre del hombre. The Child is father of the Man.'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1vG038137Ps/TdHwHgP20wI/AAAAAAAAAjU/-q5gi52EBU4/s72-c/cosecha.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-6000225680573741817</id><published>2011-05-09T17:12:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-05-09T17:15:49.471+06:00</updated><title type='text'>La gran pregunta. The big question</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;His name is Mohammed Ariful Islam, Muslim, 18, and is one of my students in Pirgacha. The other day he was waiting for me at the end of the class time. After a little conversation and a lot of compliments, he put this question: "And you, why did you come to Bangladesh?" The boy is a Muslim, and it was going to be difficult for him to understand a theological discourse, so I replied: "Because I love being with the young Bangladeshis." Then, thinking and thinking, I realized that my answer was true, but the real reason why I am a missionary in Bangladesh is just for kids like Ariful to ask the question that he asked. That is, people wondering why you're here, why you do what you do, why you are as you are. May they realize that we love them, and that our love is a reflection of the love of God. Inch Allah.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uhloO_cRpf0/TcfL_p5MFII/AAAAAAAAAjQ/ozmXVHHCaOs/s1600/vocational+computer+%25289%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uhloO_cRpf0/TcfL_p5MFII/AAAAAAAAAjQ/ozmXVHHCaOs/s400/vocational+computer+%25289%2529.JPG" width="292" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;Se llama Mohammed Ariful Islam, musulmán, 18 años, y es uno de mis alumnos en Pirgacha. El otro día me estaba esperando al final de las clases. Tras un poco de conversación y dedicarme unos cuántos piropos, me largó esta pregunta: “Y tú, ¿por qué has venido a Bangladesh?” El chico es musulmán, y le iba a resultar difícil entender un discurso teológico; así que le respondí: “Porque me encanta estar con los jóvenes bangladeshis”. Luego, pensando, pensando, me di cuenta de que mi respuesta era verdad, pero que la verdadera razón por la que soy misionero en Bangladesh es precisamente para que chavales como Ariful me hagan la pregunta que me hizo. Es decir, que la gente se pregunte por qué estás aquí, por qué haces lo que haces, por qué eres como eres. Y que se den cuenta de que les queremos, y de que nuestro amor es el reflejo del amor de Dios.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-6000225680573741817?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/6000225680573741817/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=6000225680573741817&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6000225680573741817'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6000225680573741817'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/05/la-gran-pregunta-big-question.html' title='La gran pregunta. The big question'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uhloO_cRpf0/TcfL_p5MFII/AAAAAAAAAjQ/ozmXVHHCaOs/s72-c/vocational+computer+%25289%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-1809398012419374219</id><published>2011-05-07T19:25:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-05-07T19:25:21.531+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Dónde están los 4 centímetros que faltan. Where are the missing 4 centimeters?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AusXsHgt3iw/TcVHhfJHJCI/AAAAAAAAAjI/7zCZZ7Guhpk/s1600/asfalto+%25284%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AusXsHgt3iw/TcVHhfJHJCI/AAAAAAAAAjI/7zCZZ7Guhpk/s320/asfalto+%25284%2529.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;They are paving our road at Pirgacha. It is an event for everyone here. They do almost everything manually, as you can see in the photos. The only machine is an old roller. So far the good news. The bad news is that they are casting a layer of slightly more than one centimeter thick. We know that the government has paid for a 5 cm layer, which means that the other 4 cm have been falling in different pockets before the asphalt came to our road. So are things in Bangladesh: widespread corruption. Unfortunately, schools are no exception to this unwritten rule. Under these conditions it is difficult to educate young people in the honesty and sense of responsibility. Honest people in Bangladesh are really people of merit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9zZRI5eNNMY/TcVHPS8dOzI/AAAAAAAAAjA/xcdhVLj5Bx0/s1600/asfalto+%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9zZRI5eNNMY/TcVHPS8dOzI/AAAAAAAAAjA/xcdhVLj5Bx0/s320/asfalto+%25281%2529.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6rDRhnM_pRM/TcVHYspbYeI/AAAAAAAAAjE/Zp7LfrlkG4o/s1600/asfalto+%25282%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6rDRhnM_pRM/TcVHYspbYeI/AAAAAAAAAjE/Zp7LfrlkG4o/s320/asfalto+%25282%2529.JPG" width="213" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nos están asfaltando la carretera. Es un acontecimiento para todo el mundo por aquí. Lo hacen casi todo manualmente, como puedes ver en las fotos. La única máquina es una vieja apisonadora. Hasta aquí lo bueno. Lo malo es que están echando una capa de poco más de un centímetro de espesor. Hemos sabido que el gobierno ha pagado por una capa de 5 centímetros, lo cual quiere decir que los otros 4 centímetros se han ido quedando en diferentes bolsillos antes de que el asfalto llegase a nuestra carretera. Así son las cosas en Bangladesh: corrupción por todas partes. Lamentablemente, las escuelas no son una excepción a esta regla no escrita. En estas condiciones es difícil educar a los jóvenes en la honradez y el sentido de la responsabilidad. La gente honrada en Bangladesh tiene un mérito enorme.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-1809398012419374219?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/1809398012419374219/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=1809398012419374219&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1809398012419374219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1809398012419374219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/05/donde-estan-los-4-centimetros-que.html' title='Dónde están los 4 centímetros que faltan. Where are the missing 4 centimeters?'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AusXsHgt3iw/TcVHhfJHJCI/AAAAAAAAAjI/7zCZZ7Guhpk/s72-c/asfalto+%25284%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-3716733954286188229</id><published>2011-05-03T15:31:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-05-03T15:31:53.840+06:00</updated><title type='text'>De cháchara. Chitchatting</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;It's hot in this late Bengali spring. It requires searching for sites in the shade to find a little draft, and there you are sure you will find also young people. The conversation is assured; the kids love you sitting with them for a while, without looking at the clock, no rush, just to chat, listen, laugh, or whatever. It's time for funny stories, comments about football or cricket, embarrassing questions, and also for confidences. I always learn a lot when I sit down to talk with young people, I learn a lot from them, I learn a lot about them, and I learn a lot about myself. Young people leave you exposed, not worth the pretense with them. In addition, being with them rejuvenate you. Thank you, Lord, for giving me precisely the vocation to spend my life serving the youth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lVNHwEpPfaI/Tb_LMa4nI9I/AAAAAAAAAi8/N2gvP6qSLWs/s1600/talking+youth+conversacion+jovenes.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lVNHwEpPfaI/Tb_LMa4nI9I/AAAAAAAAAi8/N2gvP6qSLWs/s400/talking+youth+conversacion+jovenes.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hace ya calor en este final de la primavera bengalí. Se impone buscar sitios a la sombra donde corra un poco de aire, y allí seguro que te encuentras con chavales. La conversación está asegurada; a los chicos les encanta que te sientes un rato con ellos, sin mirar al reloj, sin prisas, sólo para charlar, escuchar, reír, o lo que se tercie. Es el momento de las historietas graciosas, de los comentarios sobre fútbol o cricket, de las preguntas embarazosas, y también de las confidencias. Siempre aprendo mucho cuando me siento a hablar con los jóvenes, aprendo muchos de ellos, aprendo mucho sobre ellos, y aprendo mucho sobre mí mismo. Los jóvenes te dejan enseguida al descubierto, no valen los disimulos con ellos. Además, estar con ellos te rejuvenece. Gracias, Señor, por haberme concedido precisamente la vocación de pasar mi vida al servicio de los jóvenes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-3716733954286188229?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/3716733954286188229/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=3716733954286188229&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3716733954286188229'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3716733954286188229'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/05/de-chachara-chitchatting.html' title='De cháchara. Chitchatting'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lVNHwEpPfaI/Tb_LMa4nI9I/AAAAAAAAAi8/N2gvP6qSLWs/s72-c/talking+youth+conversacion+jovenes.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-4599805655968931500</id><published>2011-04-26T17:01:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-04-26T17:01:06.307+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Algo extraordinario. Something amazing.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"&gt;Something amazing just happened in Pirgacha. For the first time so far this year, we have had electricity for 24 hours in a row. They usually give us 6 or 7 hours a day, and without any pattern, they give it any time and then cut it away when they want. Our parish priest says that they have forgotten to cut it this time ... I realize that I'm pretty electrodependent, without electricity there are plenty of things I cannot or don’t know how to do, and then I complain and I protest. On the contrary, people around us do not usually complain about lack of electricity, they are not electrodependent. No electric current is needed to work in the fields, or cooking, or to sit and chat. Their needs are much simpler than mine, I'm much more complicated. I wish I could learn from them to need less things to be happy. (NB. As I am finishing writing this post, they have cut it! &lt;/span&gt;It’s been 25 hours. Aleluya)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GApB0lqHWiI/TbalqQH4BFI/AAAAAAAAAi4/FJp2mswjrlY/s1600/SAM_0365.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GApB0lqHWiI/TbalqQH4BFI/AAAAAAAAAi4/FJp2mswjrlY/s400/SAM_0365.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Algo extraordinario ha pasado en Pirgacha. Por primera vez en lo que va de año, acabamos de tener corriente eléctrica durante 24 horas seguidas. De ordinario nos dan 6 o 7 horas al día, y sin ningún patrón; es decir te la dan a cualquier hora y te la quitan cuando les da la gana. Dice el cura que es que se han olvidado de cortárnosla… Y es que soy bastante electrodependiente; sin electricidad hay cantidad de cosas que no puedo o no sé hacer, y entonces me quejo y me lamento. Por el contrario, la gente alrededor de nosotros no se suele quejar de falta de electricidad, no son electrodependientes. No necesitan corriente eléctrica para trabajar en los campos, ni para cocinar, ni para sentarse a charlar. Sus necesidades son mucho más sencillas que las mías, yo soy mucho más complicado. Ojalá pudiera aprender de ellos a necesitar menos cosas para ser feliz. (NB. Según estoy acabando de escribir el post, se ha ido la luz. Han sido 25 horas seguidas. Aleluya)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-4599805655968931500?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/4599805655968931500/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=4599805655968931500&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/4599805655968931500'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/4599805655968931500'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/04/algo-extraordinario-something-amazing.html' title='Algo extraordinario. Something amazing.'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GApB0lqHWiI/TbalqQH4BFI/AAAAAAAAAi4/FJp2mswjrlY/s72-c/SAM_0365.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-6081686900434633696</id><published>2011-04-20T15:46:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-04-20T15:46:11.130+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kids'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='niños'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flores'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='derechos de los niños'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flower'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chidren rights'/><title type='text'>¿En qué estás pensando, chaval? What are you thinking, kid?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;He was there, as you see him, leaning against the railing, with a bunch of flowers in his hand, lost look in his eyes, in a beautiful Bengali spring afternoon. I came close to take a picture, and the boy was unfazed. What thoughts, what feelings and emotions, what dreams and fantasies, hiding behind the eyes of a child? ... Anyway, it pays to do everything possible for them to become true, to give all children the opportunity to be happy and grow up to their true size, i.e., give them a real education. In fact this is one of my reasons for living. May the Lord help us to build a world where the children’s rights are respected.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VoHA6RXVbC8/Ta6qzXCaUFI/AAAAAAAAAis/EV_Q9M2-R44/s1600/boy+flower.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VoHA6RXVbC8/Ta6qzXCaUFI/AAAAAAAAAis/EV_Q9M2-R44/s400/boy+flower.JPG" width="327" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Estaba así, como le ves, apoyado en la barandilla, con un manojo de flores en la mano, la mirada perdida, en una tarde de la preciosa primavera bengalí. Me acerqué a sacarle una foto, y el muchacho ni se inmutó. Qué pensamientos, qué sentimientos y emociones, qué sueños y fantasías, se esconden tras la mirada de un niño… En cualquier caso, vale la pena hacer lo posible para que se hagan realidad, para dar a todos los niños del mundo la oportunidad de ser felices y crecer hasta dar su verdadera talla, es decir, darles una auténtica educación. Ésta es una de mis razones de vivir. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Que el Señor nos ayude a conseguir un mundo donde los derechos de los niños son respetados.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-6081686900434633696?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/6081686900434633696/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=6081686900434633696&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6081686900434633696'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6081686900434633696'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/04/en-que-estas-pensando-chaval-what-are.html' title='¿En qué estás pensando, chaval? What are you thinking, kid?'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VoHA6RXVbC8/Ta6qzXCaUFI/AAAAAAAAAis/EV_Q9M2-R44/s72-c/boy+flower.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-422374231484055270</id><published>2011-04-14T18:51:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-04-19T11:43:12.379+06:00</updated><title type='text'>El tiempo pasa. Time passes by</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;A letter received from a great friend, going through a delicate moment, has reminded me of one of the best lessons I learned from my father. My father was an architect and used to draw very well. One day, suddenly, he asked a friend, "Hey, how old do you think you're going to live?" You can imagine the puzzled expression in the face of the person, but finally he answered that maybe about 75, which was the average in Spain at that time. My father carefully drew a straight line exactly 75 mm long, and kept asking, "Hey, how old are you right now?" This question was easier to answer: "55." My father carefully drew a line of 55 mm parallel to the first. Then he said, "Well, you see what's left ..." The effect was mesmerizing. What little is left. For example, myself, I'm now more or less at 75% of my life, I have still only 25% to live (God willing). What little remains, and look at the state I am in. I have almost nothing to take with me when I die (and we know that we will only take the love we have given).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9HrNoQJCf38/Tabs18TvQQI/AAAAAAAAAio/TXY--EUTeRY/s1600/tiempo.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="65" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9HrNoQJCf38/Tabs18TvQQI/AAAAAAAAAio/TXY--EUTeRY/s400/tiempo.bmp" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Una carta recibida de un gran amigo que atraviesa por un momento delicado me ha traído a la memoria una de las mejores leccio&lt;/span&gt;nes que aprendí de mi padre. Mi padre era aparejador y dibujaba muy bien. Un día, así de sopetón le preguntó a un amigo, “Oye, ¿tú cuántos años crees que vas a vivir?” Te puedes imaginar la cara de póker de la persona en cuestión; pero acabó respondiendo que quizá unos 75, que era la media de los varones en España en aquel momento. Mi padre dibujó cuidadosamente una línea recta de exactamente 75 mm, y siguió al ataque, “Oye, ¿y tú cuántos años tienes ahora?” Esta pregunta fue más fácil de contestar: “55 años”. Mi padre dibujó esmeradamente una recta de 55 mm paralela a la primera. Luego dijo, “Pues ya ves lo que te queda…” El efecto es fascinante. Qué poco queda. Yo por ejemplo estoy ahora más o menos en el 75% de mi vida, me queda el 25% (si Dios quiere). Qué poco queda. “Y yo con estos pelos”. Todavía sin tener casi nada que llevarme conmigo cuando me muera (ya sabemos que sólo nos llevaremos el amor que hayamos dado).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-422374231484055270?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/422374231484055270/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=422374231484055270&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/422374231484055270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/422374231484055270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/04/el-tiempo-pasa-time-passes-by.html' title='El tiempo pasa. Time passes by'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9HrNoQJCf38/Tabs18TvQQI/AAAAAAAAAio/TXY--EUTeRY/s72-c/tiempo.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-6084451938661729764</id><published>2011-04-10T20:43:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-04-10T20:43:12.137+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='adobe house'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='casa de adobe'/><title type='text'>Mi casa de adobe. My adobe house.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SZPKaRgssIw/TaHAVse1KuI/AAAAAAAAAik/kG52U_VzaXs/s1600/pirgacha+%25283%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SZPKaRgssIw/TaHAVse1KuI/AAAAAAAAAik/kG52U_VzaXs/s320/pirgacha+%25283%2529.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;I live in a mud house like everyone else in our area in Pirgacha. Of course, this type of house has the problem that the walls and floor are easily degraded by the action of insects and other vermin inside, and water and weather outside. So, occasionally you have to cover walls and floor with a layer made of a mixture of mud, water and cowshit. And for some mysterious reason, is women's work in the tribe Mandi. Therefore, every couple of months a small army of five or six women invade my house, and plaster the walls and floor so that everything is again ok. The smell lasts only a couple of days, the only bad thing is that there is a kind of brown beetles that love the cow dung, and for a few days I have them as unwanted guests. Blessed be God who allows us to share the lives of his favorites, the poor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IXTBhWOjDtY/TaHAMykb0RI/AAAAAAAAAic/WbKi9TQ899E/s1600/mud+house+%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IXTBhWOjDtY/TaHAMykb0RI/AAAAAAAAAic/WbKi9TQ899E/s320/mud+house+%25281%2529.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UXF0vAqahlM/TaHATbDe3sI/AAAAAAAAAig/NKjLlf70lt0/s1600/mud+house+%25282%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UXF0vAqahlM/TaHATbDe3sI/AAAAAAAAAig/NKjLlf70lt0/s320/mud+house+%25282%2529.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Vivo en una casita hecha de adobe como todo el mundo en nuestra zona de Pirgacha. Pero claro, este tipo de casa tiene el problema de que las paredes y el suelo se degradan fácilmente por la acción de insectos y otros bichos, por dentro; y del agua y la intemperie por fuera. Así que de vez en cuando hay que recubrir paredes y suelo con una capa hecha de una mezcla de barro, agua y caca de vaca (tal cual). Y, por alguna misteriosa razón, es trabajo de mujeres en la tribu Mandi. Por tanto, cada par de meses un pequeño ejército de cinco o seis mujeres invade la casa, y revocan las paredes y el suelo de manera que todo queda hecho un primor. El olor dura sólo un par de días; lo único malo es que hay una especie de escarabajos de color marrón clarito a los que les encanta el excremento de vaca, y durante unos días lo tengo como huéspedes no deseados. Bendito sea Dios que nos permite compartir las condiciones de vida de sus preferidos, los pobres.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-6084451938661729764?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/6084451938661729764/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=6084451938661729764&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6084451938661729764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6084451938661729764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/04/mi-casa-de-adobe-my-adobe-house.html' title='Mi casa de adobe. My adobe house.'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SZPKaRgssIw/TaHAVse1KuI/AAAAAAAAAik/kG52U_VzaXs/s72-c/pirgacha+%25283%2529.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-5577769702877806027</id><published>2011-04-04T19:48:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-04-04T19:48:08.244+06:00</updated><title type='text'>La vida te da sorpresas. Life surprises you</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;I usually spend a good part of my day teaching computers to the local youths. First I explain what to do; I give them a paper with the necessary information and then present them an exercise to practice. The other day, after doing all this, I see a boy sitting in front of his computer, turning it on and staying for a while closed-eyes, doing nothing. When I was going straight to him to see what was going on, and willing to scold him a bit, I suddenly realized he was praying. When later on I asked in private, he told me he had been offering his work to God and thanking him for having the opportunity of using a computer, which is not available to many in Bangladesh. God! What surprises you give me. And how many lessons every day!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aqIiio8jIH0/TZnL7k9knrI/AAAAAAAAAiY/8mkqR3kMf68/s1600/SAM_1825.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aqIiio8jIH0/TZnL7k9knrI/AAAAAAAAAiY/8mkqR3kMf68/s400/SAM_1825.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Paso una buena parte de mi jornada enseñando a utilizar un ordenador a los jóvenes de los alrededores. Primero les explico lo que hay que hacer, luego les doy un papel con las indicaciones necesarias y después les doy un ejercicio para que practiquen. El otro día, después de hacer todo esto, veo que un muchacho se sienta enfrente del ordenador, lo enciende, y se queda un rato como embobado, sin hacer nada. Ya me iba yo directo a él, a ver que le pasaba, y dispuesto a echarle una pequeña bronca, cuando de repente me di cuenta de que estaba rezando. Cuando luego le pregunté en privado, me dijo que había estado ofreciendo a Dios el trabajo y dándole gracias por poder usar un ordenador, cosa que no está al alcance de muchos en Bangladesh. ¡Dios! Qué sorpresas me das. Y qué cantidad de lecciones cada día.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-5577769702877806027?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/5577769702877806027/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=5577769702877806027&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5577769702877806027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5577769702877806027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/04/la-vida-te-da-sorpresas-life-surprises.html' title='La vida te da sorpresas. Life surprises you'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aqIiio8jIH0/TZnL7k9knrI/AAAAAAAAAiY/8mkqR3kMf68/s72-c/SAM_1825.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-3011971978498195407</id><published>2011-03-31T15:43:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-03-31T17:05:45.824+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Andrew</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mjg0GoXBQa0/TZRMBd3SqhI/AAAAAAAAAiI/Y7s3FKVXFh4/s1600/andrew+%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mjg0GoXBQa0/TZRMBd3SqhI/AAAAAAAAAiI/Y7s3FKVXFh4/s320/andrew+%25281%2529.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;His name is Andrew, 19, and is one of my students in computer classes. Now I want you to notice his right hand. Instead of a hand he’s got a stump, from birth. In addition he is not left-handed. This disability does not prevent him from coming and learning as others do. He doesn’t have any complex or feels embarrassed. With its single finger he types on the keyboard and do things just as well as others. Besides someone has told me that he plays cricket quite well. I keep amazed by things and people God puts in my path. When I feel some pain, or do I have any discomfort, then often I make it an excuse to stop doing things, or working at half speed. I teach Andrew to operate a computer, but Andrew teaches me something infinitely more important: the acceptance of oneself and one own limitations, without complaining, and with a smile. Thanks, Andrew.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--6vwx6zv_vE/TZRMRyQ68JI/AAAAAAAAAiM/UPMkcrfGdWE/s1600/andrew+%25282%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--6vwx6zv_vE/TZRMRyQ68JI/AAAAAAAAAiM/UPMkcrfGdWE/s320/andrew+%25282%2529.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Se llama Andrew, tiene 19 años, y es uno de mis alumnos en las clases de informática. Ahora quiero que te fijes en su mano derecha. En lugar de mano tiene un muñón; es de nacimiento. Además no es zurdo. Esta discapacidad no le impide venir y aprender como el que más. No le he notado acomplejado, ni cohibido. Con su único dedo escribe en el teclado y hace las cosas igual de bien que los demás. Además me dicen que juega divinamente al cricket. Yo no dejo de asombrarme de las cosas y las personas que Dios pone en mi camino. Cuando me duele algo, o tengo alguna molestia, en seguida hago de ello una excusa para dejar de hacer cosas, o trabajar a medio gas. Yo le enseño a Andrew a manejar un ordenador, pero Andrew me enseña algo infinitamente más importante: la aceptación de sí mismo y sus propias limitaciones, sin quejarse, y con una sonrisa en los labios. Gracias, Andrew.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-3011971978498195407?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/3011971978498195407/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=3011971978498195407&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3011971978498195407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3011971978498195407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/03/andrew.html' title='Andrew'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mjg0GoXBQa0/TZRMBd3SqhI/AAAAAAAAAiI/Y7s3FKVXFh4/s72-c/andrew+%25281%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-8572806807919060511</id><published>2011-03-26T20:41:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-03-26T20:41:03.132+06:00</updated><title type='text'>El Obispo. The Bishop</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-D57TZ2Swad8/TY35wFDSuJI/AAAAAAAAAhs/doerD7znmyQ/s1600/visita+obispo+%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-D57TZ2Swad8/TY35wFDSuJI/AAAAAAAAAhs/doerD7znmyQ/s200/visita+obispo+%25281%2529.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-T96avTcrX1g/TY350lsHEuI/AAAAAAAAAh0/T0nDGvXiYGc/s1600/visita+obispo+%25283%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-T96avTcrX1g/TY350lsHEuI/AAAAAAAAAh0/T0nDGvXiYGc/s200/visita+obispo+%25283%2529.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-w8Yotm4QZfs/TY35y56nG8I/AAAAAAAAAhw/iBSt3z_q-b4/s1600/visita+obispo+%25282%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-w8Yotm4QZfs/TY35y56nG8I/AAAAAAAAAhw/iBSt3z_q-b4/s200/visita+obispo+%25282%2529.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Today Bishop Ponen Kubi has come to visit our parish at Pirgacha. He will spend here a couple of days exercising his pastoral activity. But I would like to place on record the way people have received him, in the Mandi way. When he still had a mile to get to the church, people have made him get off the car, they have given him a bunch of flowers and made him walk the distance that remained. Everyone followed him, singing, clapping, and beating drums. It was a real festival. At the door of the parish, they have made him sit down; have put on his head the Mandi typical hat, along with a kind of scepter. They have washed his feet, and put a necklace of white flowers (mala), they have make him eat a sweet, and a sip of "chu" (rice wine). Then everyone has come to present their respect by bowing before him and touching his feet, while young people danced in concentric circles, traditional Mandi songs (Kirton). A full-fledged folk festival as rarely I have ever seen in my life. They were receiving their boss, but they also recalled him that his authority comes from Jesus.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-YeMz0mfCxaU/TY352dZ9MmI/AAAAAAAAAh4/t60GmQsoG6Y/s1600/visita+obispo+%25284%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-YeMz0mfCxaU/TY352dZ9MmI/AAAAAAAAAh4/t60GmQsoG6Y/s200/visita+obispo+%25284%2529.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-llRUxK9ymWg/TY356bLqnCI/AAAAAAAAAiA/PBazYlgKgdY/s1600/visita+obispo+%25286%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-llRUxK9ymWg/TY356bLqnCI/AAAAAAAAAiA/PBazYlgKgdY/s200/visita+obispo+%25286%2529.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-KxthPpi3o58/TY354dqPUqI/AAAAAAAAAh8/K2KqCLQj8Qo/s1600/visita+obispo+%25285%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-KxthPpi3o58/TY354dqPUqI/AAAAAAAAAh8/K2KqCLQj8Qo/s200/visita+obispo+%25285%2529.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Hoy ha venido de visita el Obispo Mons. Ponen Kubi a nuestra parroquia de Pirgacha. Va a pasar aquí un par de días ejerciendo su actividad pastoral. Y quisiera dejar constancia de la manera cómo&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;la gente le ha recibido, a la manera Mandi. Cuando todavía le quedaba un kilómetro para llegar a la iglesia, le han hecho bajarse del coche, le han plantado un ramo de flores y le han hecho caminar el trecho que le quedaba. Todo el mundo le seguía, cantando, aplaudiendo, tocando tambores. Era una auténtica fiesta popular. A la puerta de la parroquia, le han hecho sentarse, le han puesto el gorro típico de los jefes Mandi, junto con una especie de cetro. Le han lavado los pies, le han puesto un collar de flores blancas (mala), le han dado de comer un dulce, y de beber un sorbo de “chu” (el vino de arroz). A continuación todos han pasado a presentarle su respeto inclinándose ante él y tocando sus pies, mientras los jóvenes danzaban en círculos concéntricos canciones tradicionales mandi (kirton). Una fiesta popular en toda regla como pocas veces había visto en mi vida. Estaban recibiendo a su jefe, pero también le han recordado que su autoridad le viene de Jesús.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-8572806807919060511?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/8572806807919060511/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=8572806807919060511&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/8572806807919060511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/8572806807919060511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/03/el-obispo-bishop.html' title='El Obispo. The Bishop'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-D57TZ2Swad8/TY35wFDSuJI/AAAAAAAAAhs/doerD7znmyQ/s72-c/visita+obispo+%25281%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-4327245836884192339</id><published>2011-03-21T16:53:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-03-21T16:53:53.303+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Si las fotos olieran… If photos would smell ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;If the photos smelled, right now your computer would be like a perfume store. These days, in full Bengali spring (boshontokal), the flowers are bursting into Pirgacha. The flowers in the picture are remarkable for the fragrance they give off. A good part of my daily way from home to school and to the parish is full of these little wonders. It is as if someone had sprinkled the scent all the way, especially at sunset. And now I realize that it’s true: the Lord has perfumed my way, as He has been doing in countless ways throughout my life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-J33cp8sGsVc/TYcuDWHd22I/AAAAAAAAAho/UERVcyD0cP8/s1600/flores.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="397" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-J33cp8sGsVc/TYcuDWHd22I/AAAAAAAAAho/UERVcyD0cP8/s400/flores.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Si las fotos olieran, ahora tu ordenador sería como una perfumería. Estos días, en plena primavera bengalí (boshontokal), las flores están explotando en Pirgacha. Pero las que ves en la foto son espectaculares por la fragancia que destilan. Una buena parte de mi recorrido diario de casa a la escuela y a la parroquia está llena de estas pequeñas maravillas. Es como si alguien hubiera asperjado de aroma todo el camino, especialmente al atardecer. Y ahora que lo pienso, es verdad: el Señor ha perfumado mi camino, como lo viene haciendo de mil maneras durante toda mi vida.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-4327245836884192339?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/4327245836884192339/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=4327245836884192339&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/4327245836884192339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/4327245836884192339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/03/si-las-fotos-olieran-if-photos-would.html' title='Si las fotos olieran… If photos would smell ...'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-J33cp8sGsVc/TYcuDWHd22I/AAAAAAAAAho/UERVcyD0cP8/s72-c/flores.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-1584219376345160348</id><published>2011-03-17T16:57:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-03-17T16:57:27.814+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Las chuches. Titbits</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;These two boys should be sitting on benches in a school, but instead are selling sweets to students of their same age. They park their van next to our school and stay there from ten o'clock until five o'clock in the evening. I do not know how much money they can get, but in any case is enough for their parents to prefer them out of school rather than inside. They have all sorts of things that they blend into paper cones (very dirty, by the way) with puffed rice, which is in the large bag, and a sauce that is in the right bucket. I usually do not eat anything that has not been cooked before, (I've had a couple of diarrhea because of this) but sometimes I cannot resist buying something and give me the pleasure of eating these delicacies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-SgOR3Fb--3U/TYHoT9BdxlI/AAAAAAAAAhk/G6yjauebIpo/s1600/chuches.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-SgOR3Fb--3U/TYHoT9BdxlI/AAAAAAAAAhk/G6yjauebIpo/s400/chuches.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Estos dos chavales deberían estar sentados en los bancos de una escuela, pero en lugar de eso están vendiendo chuches a alumnos de su misma edad. Ponen su carrito al lado de nuestra escuela y se pasan allí desde las diez de la mañana hasta las cinco de la tarde. No sé cuánto dinero pueden recaudar, pero en cualquier caso es lo suficiente como para que sus padres prefieran tenerlos fuera de la escuela antes que dentro. Tienen toda clase de cosas que mezclan en cucuruchos de papel (bastante sucio, por cierto) con el arroz inflado, que es lo que hay en el saco grande, y con una salsa, que es lo que hay en el cubo de la derecha. Por sistema, no suelo comer nada que no haya sido cocido antes, ya he tenido un par de diarreas por esta causa, pero a veces no me resisto a comprarles algo y darme el placer de comer estas deliciosas chuches.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-1584219376345160348?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/1584219376345160348/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=1584219376345160348&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1584219376345160348'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1584219376345160348'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/03/las-chuches-titbits.html' title='Las chuches. Titbits'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-SgOR3Fb--3U/TYHoT9BdxlI/AAAAAAAAAhk/G6yjauebIpo/s72-c/chuches.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-2803633717717973546</id><published>2011-03-09T16:21:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-03-09T16:21:44.220+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Tú eres mío, mía. You are mine</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Many times we mark our belongings with a symbol (signature, stamp, mark, picture ...). That's what God does with us today when we go to get the ashes. God marks us, he says "you're mine, I choose you," which actually means "I love you." Today, like every Ash Wednesday, our little church in Pirgacha was crowded. People come to get on his forehead the brand of choice, of love, the kiss of God. To the people of this Hindu-based culture, the marks on the front are extremely significant, as you can read &lt;a href="http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2010/02/el-beso-de-dios-gods-kiss.html"&gt;on the article I wrote last year.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-yOkpTMSJzCQ/S3t2i8wFeqI/AAAAAAAAAXc/wbuOboCfC2Y/s1600/miercoles+ceniza.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-yOkpTMSJzCQ/S3t2i8wFeqI/AAAAAAAAAXc/wbuOboCfC2Y/s320/miercoles+ceniza.JPG" width="299" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span id="goog_2106860667"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_2106860668"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Muchas veces marcamos las cosas que nos pertenecen con algún símbolo (firma, sello, marca, dibujo…) Eso es lo que hace Dios hoy con nosotros, cuando vamos a que nos pongan la ceniza. Dios nos marca, nos dice “tú eres mío, a ti te elijo”, lo cual en realidad significa “a ti te quiero”. Hoy, como cada miércoles de ceniza, nuestra pequeña iglesia de Pirgacha estaba llena de gente. Vienen a recibir en su frente la marca de elección, de amor, el beso de Dios. Para la gente de esta cultura de base hindú, las marcas en la frente son tremendamente significativas, como puedes leer en &lt;a href="http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2010/02/el-beso-de-dios-gods-kiss.html"&gt;el artículo que escribí el año pasado&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-2803633717717973546?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/2803633717717973546/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=2803633717717973546&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/2803633717717973546'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/2803633717717973546'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/03/tu-eres-mio-mia-you-are-mine.html' title='Tú eres mío, mía. You are mine'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-yOkpTMSJzCQ/S3t2i8wFeqI/AAAAAAAAAXc/wbuOboCfC2Y/s72-c/miercoles+ceniza.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-4428164050507893539</id><published>2011-03-07T20:00:00.002+06:00</published><updated>2011-03-07T20:04:05.228+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Como no tienen muñecos, se los fabrican ellos mismos. Having no dolls, they make them themselves.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/64829708@N00/5505657175/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5013/5505657175_b4871b3d41_m.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 2px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I had noticed that children in the Pirgacha area have no toys. They play with things from the environment: stones, sticks, water, mud, reeds. One of the games they really enjoy is to put some pebbles on the back of their hand and pull it up while they turn over the hand. The winner is the one who collects the higher number of stones in the palm. I've tried and it is very difficult, even the smallest beat me, and they laugh at me very much every time. The other day I was excited to see how they had made themselves a kind of straw doll (see photo). And I bet they enjoy playing with those homemade dolls as much as European or American children with their expensive electronic toys.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me había llamado la atención que los niños de la zona de Pirgacha no tienen juguetes. Juegan con las cosas que encuentran en el campo: piedras, palos, agua, barro, cañas. Un juego que les gusta mucho consiste en ponerse unas piedrecitas en el lomo de la mano, las tiran hacia arriba al mismo tiempo que dan la vuelta a la mano. Gana aquel que recoge el mayor número de piedras en la palma. Yo he probado y es dificilísimo, hasta los más pequeños me ganan; por cierto les da la risa tonta cuando me ganan. El otro día me entusiasmó ver cómo se habían fabricado ellos mismos una especie de muñeco de paja (ver la foto). Y me apuesto algo bueno a que se lo pasan igual de bien con estos juguetes caseros que los niños europeos o americanos con sus caros juguetes electrónicos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-4428164050507893539?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/4428164050507893539/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=4428164050507893539&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/4428164050507893539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/4428164050507893539'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/03/como-no-tienen-munecos-se-los-fabrican.html' title='Como no tienen muñecos, se los fabrican ellos mismos. Having no dolls, they make them themselves.'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5013/5505657175_b4871b3d41_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-8558625465967066199</id><published>2011-03-03T19:45:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-03-03T19:45:48.502+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Tragicomedia en el cuarto de baño. Tragicomedy in the bathroom.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Now I laugh, but the shock was terrible. I was in the bathroom doing what everyone does in the bathroom, I was going to grab the roll of toilet paper, when from inside the cylinder came a spider of a more than respectable size that began to run on my arm. You can imagine the scene. The roll, the spider and I in position all but graceful, all forming a monumental mess. Sorry for this concession to eschatology, but I post it here because I've been laughing at myself for hours, nicknaming myself as “spider man”. Blessed be God who has given us laughter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Ahora me río, pero el susto fue morrocotudo. Estaba yo en el cuarto de baño haciendo lo que todo el mundo hace en el cuarto de baño, cuando al ir a echar mano del rollo de papel higiénico, de dentro del cilindro salió una araña de tamaño más que respetable que empezó a correr por mi brazo. Puedes imaginarte la escena. El rollo por un lado, la araña por otro y yo en posición poco airosa, todo ello formando un caos monumental. Perdón por esta concesión a la escatología, pero lo pongo aquí porque me he estado riendo de mí mismo durante horas, poniéndome el mote de “spiderman”. Bendito sea Dios, que nos ha dado la risa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-8558625465967066199?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/8558625465967066199/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=8558625465967066199&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/8558625465967066199'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/8558625465967066199'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/03/tragicomedia-en-el-cuarto-de-bano.html' title='Tragicomedia en el cuarto de baño. Tragicomedy in the bathroom.'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-3140899337566999302</id><published>2011-02-27T16:32:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-02-27T16:32:08.428+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Sukanto, gracias. Thank you, Sukanto</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Sukanto is one of my students. He is about 16 years old. Today he did something crazy with such bad luck that I caught him. They had rung the bell to end the classes. Everyone rushed out, but Sukanto walked all over the tables to come out first. I wanted to kick out a fuss, but instead I called him by name and asked him if at home also he walks on the tables. Sukanto is clever and understood. I did not need to say or do more. I looked into his eyes I saw repentance and a little shame, and then he said "Dhonobad, Bradar" (Thanks, Brother). Thank you, Sukanto, for your intelligence to understand things, and for accepting fraternal correction.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ifKaFMGASW4/TWonp6p57EI/AAAAAAAAAgk/LXqGkdfME4E/s1600/pirgacha+%2528168%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ifKaFMGASW4/TWonp6p57EI/AAAAAAAAAgk/LXqGkdfME4E/s400/pirgacha+%2528168%2529.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Sukanto es uno de mis alumnus. Tendrá unos 16 años. Hoy hizo una pequeña locura, con tan mala suerte que yo pasaba por allí. Habían tocado la campana para finalizar las clases. Todo el mundo salió de estampida, y a Sukanto no se le ocurrió más que caminar por encima de las mesas para salir antes. Me dieron ganas de echarle una bronca, pero le llamé por su nombre y le pregunté si en su casa también anda por encima de las mesas. Sukanto que es listo, lo entendió. No me hizo falta decir ni hacer más. Me miró, en sus ojos pude ver arrepentimiento y un poco de vergüenza; sin embargo lo que me dijo fue: “Dhonobad, Bradar” (Gracias, Hermano). Gracias a ti, Sukanto, por tu inteligencia para comprender las cosas, y por agradecer una corrección fraterna.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-3140899337566999302?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/3140899337566999302/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=3140899337566999302&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3140899337566999302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3140899337566999302'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/02/sukanto-gracias-thank-you-sukanto.html' title='Sukanto, gracias. Thank you, Sukanto'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ifKaFMGASW4/TWonp6p57EI/AAAAAAAAAgk/LXqGkdfME4E/s72-c/pirgacha+%2528168%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-250007100310819520</id><published>2011-02-25T16:08:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-02-25T16:08:10.648+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Entre los pucheros anda Dios. God is between the pots</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;I wanted to post this picture so that you could see how the kitchens in the houses of our neighbours are. No refrigerator, no microwaves, no glass ceramic, no programmable oven, nothing of that kind of things. I know more than one whose heart would sank into their boots if they enter this kitchen. Teresa of Avila used to say that God is between the pots, and I really believe in the presence of God in this kitchen and in all the poor kitchens of poor people. Moreover, this lady’s food in not less tasty than the ones from more stocked and furnished kitchens; I know it from my own experience.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--1N24UCw-rk/TWd_IhVHjpI/AAAAAAAAAgg/QFYRdi3PBvk/s1600/cocina.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--1N24UCw-rk/TWd_IhVHjpI/AAAAAAAAAgg/QFYRdi3PBvk/s400/cocina.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Quería poner esta imagen para que veáis cómo es una cocina en las casas de los campesinos de nuestra zona. No hay frigorífico, ni microondas, ni vitrocerámica, ni horno programable, ni nada que se le parezca. Yo conozco a más de uno/a a quien se le caería el alma a los pies al entrar a esta cocina. Decía Teresa, la de Jesús, que entre los pucheros anda Dios; yo sí creo que Dios está presente en esta cocina y en todas las cocinas pobres de la gente humilde. Y además la comida de esta señora no es menos sabrosa que la de otras cocinas más surtidas y amuebladas; lo digo por experiencia…&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-250007100310819520?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/250007100310819520/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=250007100310819520&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/250007100310819520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/250007100310819520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/02/entre-los-pucheros-anda-dios-god-is.html' title='Entre los pucheros anda Dios. God is between the pots'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--1N24UCw-rk/TWd_IhVHjpI/AAAAAAAAAgg/QFYRdi3PBvk/s72-c/cocina.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-6217051450286214604</id><published>2011-02-20T10:36:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-02-20T13:42:14.746+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Señas de identidad. Identity</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;We all need symbols to show our identity. Often symbols are flags, colors, mascots, badges, and gestures. In the case of the Christians in Bangladesh, particularly the Mandi tribal people I live with, they use as a hallmark something completely unexpected: the pig, or rather, eating pork. Christians in Bangladesh are a very small minority that is less than 0.1% of the population. The overwhelming majority is Muslim that, as everyone knows, cannot eat pork. That way, suddenly, eating pork becomes a symbol of Christian identity. Who was going to say to the pig that it was to play an important role in defining people? All this is fine, and I have nothing against it, but I would like our identity rather defined by what was said about the early Christians: "See how they love each other."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HbERrbNxp2Y/TWCaBvrfy7I/AAAAAAAAAgU/5Fg06VJsXZY/s1600/cerdo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HbERrbNxp2Y/TWCaBvrfy7I/AAAAAAAAAgU/5Fg06VJsXZY/s400/cerdo.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Todos necesitamos símbolos para mostrar nuestra identidad. Muchas veces los símbolos son banderas, colores, mascotas, carnets, gestos. En el caso de los cristianos de Bangladesh, concretamente la gente de la tribu Mandi con los que vivo, utilizan como seña de identidad algo completamente inesperado: el cerdo, o mejor dicho, comer carne de cerdo. Los cristianos en Bangladesh son (somos) una ínfima minoría que no llega al 0,1% de la población. La abrumadora mayoría es musulmana que como todo el mundo sabe tiene prohibido comer carne de cerdo. Pues bien, comer cerdo se convierte de pronto en un símbolo cristiano de identidad. ¿Quién le iba a decir al cerdo que iba a jugar un papel tan importante en la definición de las personas? Todo esto está bien, y no tengo nada contra ello, pero a mí me gustaría que nuestra más clara seña de identidad fuera aquello que se decía de los cristianos en los comienzos: “Mirad cómo se aman”.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-6217051450286214604?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/6217051450286214604/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=6217051450286214604&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6217051450286214604'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6217051450286214604'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/02/senas-de-identidad-identity.html' title='Señas de identidad. Identity'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HbERrbNxp2Y/TWCaBvrfy7I/AAAAAAAAAgU/5Fg06VJsXZY/s72-c/cerdo.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-673521722714174117</id><published>2011-02-12T20:09:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-02-12T20:09:18.668+06:00</updated><title type='text'>El rostro de Dios. The face of God.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Today I traveled from Mymensingh to Dhaka. At 9 o’clock in the morning when I arrived at the bus station I noticed immediately that something was wrong. One of the two companies that make the service between the two cities did not have buses and had a queue of about 800 people, if not more, waiting in line at the box office. I did not know what to do; queuing in Bangladesh involves elbowing and trampling right and left, and of course getting the same from others. And I was not in the mood for that. So I stayed out of the queue, surveying the scene and wondering what would be my next move. Then a young couple, he and she, Prodip and Tapati, came to me and asked where I am going. They told me to wait a minute, and after a while the girl came with a bus ticket. How did she get it, I do not know. They explained that when they saw me in trouble they felt the duty to "help" the foreigner. (In Bengali culture, "the guest is God" - Othiti Bhogoban). And not only they got the ticket for me, but they stayed with me the two hours I had to wait for the bus. "Until we see you inside the bus, we will stay with you." I have to say that all this was done with the utmost care, talking in English, with a smile. I wondered if in Europe we treat that way the people coming from abroad, if we make them feel at home as this couple has made me feel. I have rarely seen the face of God so clearly manifested as in the smiling faces of Prodip and Tapati. Thank you, Lord.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7bRb-73lqhk/TVaUavYIVTI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/QJrNeRe7bjM/s1600/el-rostro-de-dios.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7bRb-73lqhk/TVaUavYIVTI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/QJrNeRe7bjM/s400/el-rostro-de-dios.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hoy he viajado de Mymensingh a Dhaka. A las 9 y pico de la mañana cuando llegué a la estación de autobuses me di cuenta enseguida de que algo no iba bien. Una de las dos compañías que hacen el servicio entre las dos ciudades no tenía autobuses y había una cola de unas 800 personas, si no más, haciendo cola ante las taquillas. Yo no sabía qué hacer; hacer cola en Bangladesh implica dar codazos y pisotones a diestro y siniestro, y por supuesto también recibirlos. Y no estaba yo de humor para eso. Así que me quedé fuera de la cola, oteando el panorama y pensando cuál iba a ser mi siguiente jugada. En esto se me acerca una pareja de jóvenes, él y ella, Prodip y Tópoti, y me preguntan dónde voy. Entonces me dicen que espere un momento, y al cabo de unos minutos, mientras el chico me daba conversación, la chica viene con un billete de autobús. Cómo lo ha conseguido, no lo sé. Me explican que me han visto dudando y han sentido la obligación de “socorrer” al extranjero. (En la cultura bengalí “el huésped es Dios” – Othiti Bhogoban). Y no sólo me consiguieron el billete, sino que se estuvieron conmigo las dos horas que tuve que esperar para tomar el autobús. “Hasta que no te veamos dentro del autobús no nos vamos”. Tengo que decir que todo esto lo hicieron con la mayor delicadeza, hablándome en inglés, con una sonrisa en los labios. Yo me preguntaba si en Europa tratamos así a la gente que nos viene del extranjero, si les hacemos sentir en casa como esta pareja (por cierto son novios) me ha hecho sentir a mí. Pocas veces he visto el rostro de Dios tan claramente manifiesto como en los rostros sonrientes de Prodip y Tópoti. Gracias, Señor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-673521722714174117?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/673521722714174117/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=673521722714174117&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/673521722714174117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/673521722714174117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/02/el-rostro-de-dios-face-of-god.html' title='El rostro de Dios. The face of God.'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7bRb-73lqhk/TVaUavYIVTI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/QJrNeRe7bjM/s72-c/el-rostro-de-dios.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-982624977797764789</id><published>2011-02-05T16:46:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-02-05T16:56:57.716+06:00</updated><title type='text'>El teléfono. The Telephone.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Today Manuel has come to visit me as he uses to do many times. While I keep working, he goes on his own, inspecting everything, touching everything. Today he got interested on my mobile phone, he spent his time handling it, pressing all the buttons; then, bringing it to his ear he started doing as he has seen people do thousands of times. I did not know whether to laugh or mourn, whether the thing was comic or tragic, but I tell you that I almost started crying. I say this because Manuel is deaf-mute. With the phone on his ear, he laughed, nodded and emitted guttural sounds, the only ones his throat is able to produce. It was exciting to see him happy, laughing, and “talking." And it was sad to know that everything was "false", he can’t hear, he can’t speak, and he will never be able to do it. But I'm sure that at the other side of the phone line there was someone talking to Manuel; isn’t it, Lord, that you were there, on the other side?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TU0qMfut9vI/AAAAAAAAAgM/t9FpOykg_pA/s1600/manuel.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TU0qMfut9vI/AAAAAAAAAgM/t9FpOykg_pA/s320/manuel.JPG" width="282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Manuel ha venido a verme, como lo hace muchos días. Mientras sigo trabajando, él va a lo suyo; todo lo inspecciona, todo lo toca, todo le interesa. Hoy le dio por mi teléfono móvil; lo manoseó, apretó todos los botones, se lo puso en la oreja e hizo como ha visto hacer a la gente miles de veces. Yo no sabía si reír o llorar, si la cosa era cómica o trágica, aunque la verdad es que casi me echo a llorar. Lo digo porque Manuel es sordomudo. Con el teléfono en la oreja reía, asentía y emitía esos sonidos guturales que son los únicos que su garganta sabe emitir. Era emocionante verle feliz, riendo, “hablando”. Y era tristísimo saber que todo era “mentira”, que no oye, que no habla, y que nunca podrá hacerlo. Pero estoy seguro que al otro lado de la línea telefónica sí había alguien hablando con Manuel, ¿no es cierto, Señor, que tú estabas allí, al otro lado?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-982624977797764789?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/982624977797764789/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=982624977797764789&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/982624977797764789'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/982624977797764789'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/02/el-telefono-telephone.html' title='El teléfono. The Telephone.'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TU0qMfut9vI/AAAAAAAAAgM/t9FpOykg_pA/s72-c/manuel.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-4995462286432191058</id><published>2011-02-01T16:19:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-02-01T16:19:38.805+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Toco el futuro; doy clase. I touch the future, I teach.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TUfazxaTR8I/AAAAAAAAAfk/StRkfejrZ2g/s1600/arroz+%25283%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TUfazxaTR8I/AAAAAAAAAfk/StRkfejrZ2g/s1600/arroz+%25283%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TUfazxaTR8I/AAAAAAAAAfk/StRkfejrZ2g/s1600/arroz+%25283%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; background-color: #990000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"&gt;Again it all starts. Around my house these days the picture is beautiful, people are planting the rice. Weeded out, inundate the field, plow and then plant. All with the hope that the weather will be good, there will be no pests, it will be okay, and that the final harvest will be great, with God's help. And in the school we are doing the same thing, we are starting the school year, preparing the minds and bodies of the students so that at the end they obtain a harvest of good academic results and human growth. Farmers and educators are quite similar, I think. We touch the future every day with our hands… and with God’s help.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TUfazxaTR8I/AAAAAAAAAfk/StRkfejrZ2g/s1600/arroz+%25283%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TUfazxaTR8I/AAAAAAAAAfk/StRkfejrZ2g/s1600/arroz+%25283%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TUfazxaTR8I/AAAAAAAAAfk/StRkfejrZ2g/s320/arroz+%25283%2529.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TUfazxaTR8I/AAAAAAAAAfk/StRkfejrZ2g/s1600/arroz+%25283%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TUfat8xcYaI/AAAAAAAAAfg/PWU38oQaKJc/s1600/arroz+%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TUfat8xcYaI/AAAAAAAAAfg/PWU38oQaKJc/s320/arroz+%25281%2529.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TUfat8xcYaI/AAAAAAAAAfg/PWU38oQaKJc/s1600/arroz+%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TUfat8xcYaI/AAAAAAAAAfg/PWU38oQaKJc/s1600/arroz+%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"&gt;Otra vez empieza todo. Alrededor de mi casa estos días el panorama es precioso; la gente está plantando el arroz. Desbrozan, anegan el terreno, lo aran y después plantan. Todo con la esperanza de que el tiempo será bueno, que no habrá plagas, que todo irá bien y que al final la cosecha será estupenda con la ayuda de Dios. Y en la escuela estamos haciendo lo mismo: estamos empezando el curso, preparando las mentes y los cuerpos de los chavales para que el curso se dé bien y al final obtengan una cosecha de buenos resultados académicos y de crecimiento humano. Los labradores y los educadores nos parecemos mucho; al menos eso creo yo. Tocamos cada día el futuro con nuestras manos. Y con la ayuda de Dios.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TUfa6uIKb0I/AAAAAAAAAfo/OwnwrGY_g70/s1600/arroz+%25284%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TUfa6uIKb0I/AAAAAAAAAfo/OwnwrGY_g70/s1600/arroz+%25284%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TUfa6uIKb0I/AAAAAAAAAfo/OwnwrGY_g70/s320/arroz+%25284%2529.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-4995462286432191058?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/4995462286432191058/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=4995462286432191058&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/4995462286432191058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/4995462286432191058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/02/toco-el-futuro-doy-clase-i-touch-future.html' title='Toco el futuro; doy clase. I touch the future, I teach.'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TUfazxaTR8I/AAAAAAAAAfk/StRkfejrZ2g/s72-c/arroz+%25283%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-6848076818948544404</id><published>2011-01-27T06:41:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-01-27T06:41:51.318+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Se busca. Wanted</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Men wanted for difficult journey, low wages, intense cold, long months of darkness, permanent risk, return uncertain.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TUC-96DL9FI/AAAAAAAAAfc/hmwwEoLYUU0/s1600/ultima+cena.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="180" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TUC-96DL9FI/AAAAAAAAAfc/hmwwEoLYUU0/s320/ultima+cena.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Se buscan personas para arriesgado viaje: bajo salario, frío intenso, largos meses de oscuridad, riesgo permanente, retorno no asegurado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-6848076818948544404?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/6848076818948544404/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=6848076818948544404&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6848076818948544404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6848076818948544404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/01/se-busca-wanted.html' title='Se busca. Wanted'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TUC-96DL9FI/AAAAAAAAAfc/hmwwEoLYUU0/s72-c/ultima+cena.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-1736002750412295945</id><published>2011-01-19T20:18:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-01-19T20:18:38.820+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Cuentan de un sabio que un día... There is always someone to pick up what you threw away</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;We have&amp;nbsp;been using a&amp;nbsp;rubber&amp;nbsp;tablecloth&amp;nbsp;for two years.&amp;nbsp;Now it was old, dirty&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;half&amp;nbsp;eaten away,&amp;nbsp;so we&amp;nbsp;decided to&amp;nbsp;throw it away&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;buy&amp;nbsp;a&amp;nbsp;new one.&amp;nbsp;It costs&amp;nbsp;only&amp;nbsp;150&amp;nbsp;taka&amp;nbsp;(2 US$).&amp;nbsp;What was my&amp;nbsp;surprise&amp;nbsp;when&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;other&amp;nbsp;day, when I was visiting&amp;nbsp;a neighboring family, I&amp;nbsp;found&amp;nbsp;our blue&amp;nbsp; stamped&amp;nbsp;rubber&amp;nbsp;tablecloth&amp;nbsp; covering&amp;nbsp;their&amp;nbsp;table,&amp;nbsp;as&amp;nbsp;you can&amp;nbsp;see&amp;nbsp;in&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;picture.&amp;nbsp;The family&amp;nbsp;is poor - the&amp;nbsp;father&amp;nbsp;works as a&amp;nbsp;labourer&amp;nbsp;(mojur)&amp;nbsp;- and earns $ 1 per&amp;nbsp;day.&amp;nbsp;So&amp;nbsp;they found&amp;nbsp;that our&amp;nbsp;old&amp;nbsp;rubber&amp;nbsp;tablecloth suited very well their&amp;nbsp;table.&amp;nbsp;They also&amp;nbsp;probably&amp;nbsp;thought&amp;nbsp;how incredibly wasteful&amp;nbsp;we foreigners are.&amp;nbsp;Things have&amp;nbsp;value&amp;nbsp;for them,&amp;nbsp;and I&amp;nbsp;would like to&amp;nbsp;learn&amp;nbsp;to value things and&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;work&amp;nbsp;they have to do to&amp;nbsp;buy it.&amp;nbsp;Thank you,&amp;nbsp;Lord,&amp;nbsp;for this&amp;nbsp;lesson the poor give me once again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;  &lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TTbx_k5-MoI/AAAAAAAAAfY/_tkhXF8_CKw/s1600/cuentan+de+un+sabio+que+un+dia.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TTbx_k5-MoI/AAAAAAAAAfY/_tkhXF8_CKw/s400/cuentan+de+un+sabio+que+un+dia.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;Hemos estado usando un mantel de hule durante dos años. Ya estaba viejo, sucio y medio carcomido; así que decidimos tirarlo y comprar uno nuevo. Total, cuesta sólo 150 takas (1,5 €). Cuál no fue mi sorpresa cuando el otro día, al entrar en casa de una familia vecina, me encontré nuestro hule estampado azul cubriendo su mesa, como puedes comprobar en la foto. La familia es pobre, el padre trabaja de jornalero (mojur) y gana menos de 1 euro al día. De manera que encontraron que nuestro viejo hule les venía de perlas para su mesa. Además seguramente pensaron en lo increíblemente despilfarradores que somos los extranjeros. Las cosas tienen valor para ellos, y a mí me gustaría aprender a valorar más las cosas y el trabajo que algunos les cuesta comprarlas. Gracias, Señor, por esta lección que como casi siempre me dan los pobres.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-1736002750412295945?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/1736002750412295945/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=1736002750412295945&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1736002750412295945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1736002750412295945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/01/cuentan-de-un-sabio-que-un-dia-there-is.html' title='Cuentan de un sabio que un día... There is always someone to pick up what you threw away'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TTbx_k5-MoI/AAAAAAAAAfY/_tkhXF8_CKw/s72-c/cuentan+de+un+sabio+que+un+dia.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-1012485493232600122</id><published>2011-01-17T17:08:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2011-01-17T17:09:59.241+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Ya no está uno pa esos trotes. I am not up to that sort of thing anymore</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;I tried, I tell you, but I am not up to that sort of thing anymore. Of course, I missed the ball, we lost the point, and what is worse, I was the laughingstock of the crowd. But I had a good time, and the kids more. You have to see how the boys like us to play with them, to hear them, accidentally to make some funny mistake in Bangla, to stay with them outside of formal classes, in a word to spend time with them. I am convinced that we educate more outside the classroom than inside. And if you can score a point once in a while ... much better.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TTQicLkkplI/AAAAAAAAAfU/j2bjW5Qq7Aw/s1600/SAM_1102.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TTQicLkkplI/AAAAAAAAAfU/j2bjW5Qq7Aw/s400/SAM_1102.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Lo intenté, te lo aseguro, pero ya no está uno pa esos trotes. Por supuesto, la pelota se me escapó, nos ganaron el punto, y lo que es peor, fui el hazmerreir de la concurrencia. Pero me lo pasé bomba, y los chavales más. Hay que ver lo que les gusta a los muchachos que juegues con ellos, que les escuches, que te equivoques al hablar bangla y digas sin querer alguna barbaridad, que eches muchos ratos con ellos fuera del ámbito formal de las clases, en una palabra, que estés con ellos. Yo estoy convencido de que se educa más fuera de clase que dentro. Y si además puedes hacer algún tanto de vez en cuando… mejor.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-1012485493232600122?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/1012485493232600122/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=1012485493232600122&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1012485493232600122'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1012485493232600122'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/01/ya-no-esta-uno-pa-esos-trotes-i-am-not.html' title='Ya no está uno pa esos trotes. I am not up to that sort of thing anymore'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TTQicLkkplI/AAAAAAAAAfU/j2bjW5Qq7Aw/s72-c/SAM_1102.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-2480751177376357554</id><published>2011-01-13T09:16:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-01-13T09:16:47.182+06:00</updated><title type='text'>El frío. The cold weather</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;The photos below were taken this morning of 13&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; January. An unprecedented cold wave has swept Bangladesh. This morning we had 5 º C, with 95% humidity and thick fog. Even the oldest in the place can’t remember something like this. The houses in our area are not prepared for these temperatures, and people do not have warm clothing to deal with. So, you see people starting fires everywhere, huddled in the corners, shaking and shivering. Last night I've had to cover myself using even my towels. All this must be because of the "global warming", I guess ... Anyway, Lord, I pray for the poorest who are the ones suffering most from these low temperatures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TS5sl8VbPfI/AAAAAAAAAfI/PtkEol-YPJk/s1600/frio+%25282%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TS5sl8VbPfI/AAAAAAAAAfI/PtkEol-YPJk/s320/frio+%25282%2529.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Las fotos que ves están tomadas esta mañana del 13 de enero. Una inaudita ola de frío ha invadido Bangladesh. Esta mañana teníamos 5ºC, con 95% de humedad y niebla cerrada; ni los más viejos del lugar recordaban tamaño frío. Las casas en nuestra zona no están preparadas para estas temperaturas, y la gente no tiene ropa de abrigo para afrontarlas. Así que, ves a la gente encendiendo fuegos por todas partes, acurrucada por los rincones, temblando. Yo la noche pasada he tenido que echarme encima hasta las toallas. Todo esto debe ser por lo del “calentamiento global”, digo yo… En cualquier caso, Señor, te pido por los más pobres que son los que más sufren por estas bajas temperaturas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TS5uBWaudZI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/-nScx2Aqe-w/s1600/frio+%25283%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TS5uBWaudZI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/-nScx2Aqe-w/s320/frio+%25283%2529.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-2480751177376357554?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/2480751177376357554/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=2480751177376357554&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/2480751177376357554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/2480751177376357554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/01/el-frio-cold-weather.html' title='El frío. The cold weather'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TS5sl8VbPfI/AAAAAAAAAfI/PtkEol-YPJk/s72-c/frio+%25282%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-6761934529462259224</id><published>2011-01-09T17:16:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-01-09T17:16:22.530+06:00</updated><title type='text'>¿Qué llevas en tu saco, muchacho? What's in your bag, boy?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;I met him down the street in Mymensingh, a neighboring city to Pirgacha. Barefoot, carrying a sack almost bigger than him. He was collecting papers, cans, cartons, bottles, containers. This is a common sight in Bangladesh: kids who live working and learning in the school of the street. I asked him what he was doing, where he lived, what would be become when he gets an adult. To all he replied with the cross-eyed look and the charming smile you see in the picture. It's amazing the maturity these kids have and the sensitivity they have towards someone like me, interested in them even only for five minutes, treating them as human beings with respect and affection. Now I know, Aziz, in your bag as well as paper, paperboard and packaging, you take a treasure called dignity. I wish I could live with such dignity in all situations of my life. Thanks, Aziz, the sack boy, for your lesson.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TSmYTx9yaEI/AAAAAAAAAe8/M69M3Hmlx14/s1600/christmas+taize+%25286%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TSmYTx9yaEI/AAAAAAAAAe8/M69M3Hmlx14/s400/christmas+taize+%25286%2529.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Me lo encontré por la calle en Mymensingh, una ciudad vecina a Pirgacha. Descalzo, cargado con un saco casi más grande que él. Iba recogiendo papeles, latas, cartones, botellas, envases. Esta es una imagen muy común en Bangladesh: chavales que viven trabajando y aprendiendo en la escuela de la calle. Le pregunté qué hacía, dónde vivía, qué quería ser de mayor. A todo me respondió con la mirada bizca y la encantadora sonrisa que ves en la foto. Es asombrosa la madurez que muestran estos chavales y la sensibilidad que tienen para con quien, como yo, se interesan por ellos y les tratan aunque sea durante cinco minutos como personas, con respeto y cariño. Ahora ya sé, Aziz, que en tu saco, además de papeles, cartones y envases, llevas un tesoro llamado dignidad. Ojalá supiera vivir yo con tanta dignidad todas las situaciones de mi vida. Gracias, Aziz, muchacho del saco, por tu lección.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-6761934529462259224?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/6761934529462259224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=6761934529462259224&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6761934529462259224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6761934529462259224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/01/que-llevas-en-tu-saco-muchacho-whats-in.html' title='¿Qué llevas en tu saco, muchacho? What&apos;s in your bag, boy?'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TSmYTx9yaEI/AAAAAAAAAe8/M69M3Hmlx14/s72-c/christmas+taize+%25286%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-6303024120018022461</id><published>2011-01-04T19:55:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2011-01-04T19:55:45.063+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Una de monos. Monkeys</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TSMlP7KRuwI/AAAAAAAAAew/k2pDL6YGdek/s1600/monos.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TSMlP7KRuwI/AAAAAAAAAew/k2pDL6YGdek/s200/monos.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;In addition to wonderful people, we have another class of neighbors in Pirgacha. I mean monkeys. The kind of monkeys that thrives here are called honuman, Hindus consider them sacred. They are friendly, but mischievous: they eat all the mangoes of the mission before we can pick them up. The kids, that sometimes are worse than them, caught a newborn that you can see in the pictures. Needless to say that the whole family, with mother in the lead, pursued the boys to our home in a very threatening tone to recover the poor baby.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TSMlWO8RAII/AAAAAAAAAe0/CrGJOX_W68U/s1600/SAM_0447.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TSMlWO8RAII/AAAAAAAAAe0/CrGJOX_W68U/s200/SAM_0447.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TSMlajbI0DI/AAAAAAAAAe4/_sf4kRjKxaQ/s1600/SAM_0449.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TSMlajbI0DI/AAAAAAAAAe4/_sf4kRjKxaQ/s200/SAM_0449.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;Además de maravillosas personas, en Pirgacha tenemos otra clase de vecinos. Me refiero a los monos. La clase de monos que aquí prolifera se llama honuman, los hindúes los consideran sagrados&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;. Son simpáticos, pero traviesos: se comen todos los mangos de la misión antes de que podamos recogerlos.&lt;/span&gt; Los chavales, que a veces son más diablos que ellos, atraparon a una cría recién nacida que puedes ver en las fotos. Ni que decir tiene que toda la familia, con la madre a la cabeza, los persiguió hasta nuestra casa en un tono bastante amenazador para recuperar al pobre bebé.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nxHNTK_yS1w?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nxHNTK_yS1w?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-6303024120018022461?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/6303024120018022461/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=6303024120018022461&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6303024120018022461'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6303024120018022461'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2011/01/una-de-monos-monkeys.html' title='Una de monos. Monkeys'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TSMlP7KRuwI/AAAAAAAAAew/k2pDL6YGdek/s72-c/monos.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-70201076993579049</id><published>2010-12-31T15:37:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2010-12-31T15:37:36.838+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Todo me lo has dado. You have given me everything</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;There goes 2010. I was reading in my house and suddenly I noticed a special light. It was dusk time in this blessed place called Pirgacha. The evening light was orange, pink, purple ... changing every single minute. Wonderful. I ran to get the camera and only managed to take this insipid image of what was happening in the Bengali sky. God was giving me a splendid way to end this year, in which everything was grace, gift, present from Him. The many happy moments as well as those that I didn’t perceive so at first glance. Lord, you gave me everything: health, work, mission, friendship, the smiles of the people, the love of my family, the fraternity of my Brothers, the generosity of many people to our mission, the encouraging messages from known and unknown persons in this blog via internet. Everything is grace, everything is a gift. And I am sure that the best is still to come!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TR2jX7gXWFI/AAAAAAAAAek/se6JiPAAwlw/s1600/SAM_0502.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="275" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TR2jX7gXWFI/AAAAAAAAAek/se6JiPAAwlw/s400/SAM_0502.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"&gt;Así se va el 2010. &lt;/span&gt;Estaba yo leyendo en mi casa y noté como una luz especial. Era el atardecer en este bendito lugar llamado Pirgacha. La luz crepuscular era de colores naranjas, rosas, violetas… Cambiaba a cada minuto. Maravilloso. Corrí a buscar la cámara de fotos y sólo logré esta pálida imagen de lo que estaba pasando en el cielo bengalí. Dios me estaba regalando una espléndida manera de finalizar este año en el que todo ha sido gracia, don, regalo, presente, agasajo por su parte. Los muchos momentos felices y felicísimos, y los que no me lo parecieron tanto a primera vista. Señor, todo me lo has dado: la salud, el trabajo, la misión, las sonrisas de la gente, el cariño de mi familia, la fraternidad de mis Hermanos, la generosidad de mucha gente para con nuestra labor, la amistad, los alentadores mensajes de personas conocidas y desconocidas a través de internet. Todo es gracia, todo es don. Y además tengo la certeza de que lo mejor está aún por llegar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-70201076993579049?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/70201076993579049/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=70201076993579049&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/70201076993579049'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/70201076993579049'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2010/12/todo-me-lo-has-dado-you-have-given-me.html' title='Todo me lo has dado. You have given me everything'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TR2jX7gXWFI/AAAAAAAAAek/se6JiPAAwlw/s72-c/SAM_0502.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-5365552589516133190</id><published>2010-12-25T17:03:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2010-12-25T17:03:01.748+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Navidad, otro día estupendo. Christmas, another great day</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TRXOgBym6uI/AAAAAAAAAeU/IpVCi42yP8k/s1600/christmas+taize+%25283%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TRXOgBym6uI/AAAAAAAAAeU/IpVCi42yP8k/s200/christmas+taize+%25283%2529.JPG" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Today, Christmas Day, the Brothers of Taizé in Bangladesh have invited us to spend the day with them. This year also they had as guests at their table a group of physically and mentally disabled children from a neighboring institution, called L'Arche, with their supervisors (all volunteers). We were Christians, Hindus and Muslims celebrating Christmas together. Great! After a time of prayer chant, we had lunch sitting on the floor, as is customary here, and then a most funny play session with children and adults. Brotherhood and unity were palpable. What a nice way to celebrate that God becomes Man.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TRXOyolYtSI/AAAAAAAAAeY/0BUDmSyVTlA/s1600/christmas+taize+%25289%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TRXOyolYtSI/AAAAAAAAAeY/0BUDmSyVTlA/s200/christmas+taize+%25289%2529.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TRXPDg6KvWI/AAAAAAAAAec/9W3DhcE2EG8/s1600/christmas+taize+%25284%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="163" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TRXPDg6KvWI/AAAAAAAAAec/9W3DhcE2EG8/s200/christmas+taize+%25284%2529.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"&gt;Hoy, día de Navidad, los Hermanos de Tai&lt;/span&gt;zé en Bangladesh nos han invitado a pasar el día con ellos. Este año tenían además como invitados a su mesa a niños y niñas disminuidos físicos y mentales de una institución vecina, llamada L’Arche, con sus acompañantes (todos ellos voluntarios). Éramos cristianos, hindúes y musulmanes juntos celebrando Navidad. Una maravilla. Después de un rato de oración salmodiada, tuvimos la comida sentados en el suelo, como aquí se acostumbra, y más tarde una sesión de juegos con niños y mayores de lo más divertido. Se palpaba fraternidad y unidad. Qué manera más bonita de celebrar que Dios se hace Hombre.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-5365552589516133190?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/5365552589516133190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=5365552589516133190&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5365552589516133190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5365552589516133190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2010/12/navidad-otro-dia-estupendo-christmas.html' title='Navidad, otro día estupendo. 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Borodiner subeccha</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TRNP2FExfpI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/BKbu5w5YPLc/s1600/noheli.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="299" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TRNP2FExfpI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/BKbu5w5YPLc/s400/noheli.bmp" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TRNP2FExfpI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/BKbu5w5YPLc/s1600/noheli.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-6527843431178704750?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/6527843431178704750/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=6527843431178704750&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6527843431178704750'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6527843431178704750'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2010/12/best-wishes-meilleurs-voeux-con-mis.html' title='Best wishes, Meilleurs voeux, Con mis mejores deseos. Borodiner subeccha'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TRNP2FExfpI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/BKbu5w5YPLc/s72-c/noheli.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-5002059811306598470</id><published>2010-12-20T20:56:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2010-12-20T20:56:28.707+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Un día estupendo. A great day</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TQ9rqhj5mOI/AAAAAAAAAeE/rxfdvYNh9AU/s1600/youth+party+%252810%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TQ9rqhj5mOI/AAAAAAAAAeE/rxfdvYNh9AU/s320/youth+party+%252810%2529.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;We have held a Christmas party with the youth of the Pirgacha parish. It was a wonderful day. First we had Mass, then lunch, later on meeting with songs and poems, and finally round singing and dancing around Christmas songs. I even dared to sing a carol in Spanish. Wonderful boys and girls, good people who live their Christian faith in a Muslim environment. May God bless them all, and keep and increase the faith they carry in fragile earthen vessels. Here I post some pictures and a short video where you can see the "educated" way to eat in Bangladesh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TQ9r3BdM0WI/AAAAAAAAAeI/Q40zEC_lm_8/s1600/youth+party+%252819%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TQ9r3BdM0WI/AAAAAAAAAeI/Q40zEC_lm_8/s320/youth+party+%252819%2529.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; background-color: #990000; color: white;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; background-color: #990000; color: white;"&gt;Hemos celebrado una fiesta navideña con los jóvenes de la parroquia de Pirgacha. Fue un día maravilloso. Primero la Misa, después comida, más tarde sesión con canciones y poemas, y para finalizar ronda por los alrededores cantando y bailando canciones de navidad. Yo hasta me atreví a cantar un villancico en español. Chicos y chicas estupendos, buena gente que viven su fe cristiana en un medio musulmán. Que Dios les bendiga a todos/as y les conserve y acreciente la fe que llevan en frágiles vasijas de barro. Aquí dejo algunas imágenes y un corto vídeo en el puedes observar la manera “educada” de comer en Bangladesh.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TQ9sGqyFdTI/AAAAAAAAAeM/YtU2gQDe0d0/s1600/youth+party+%252826%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #990000; color: white;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TQ9sGqyFdTI/AAAAAAAAAeM/YtU2gQDe0d0/s320/youth+party+%252826%2529.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fvt3Pa_YY4M?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fvt3Pa_YY4M?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-5002059811306598470?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/5002059811306598470/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=5002059811306598470&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5002059811306598470'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5002059811306598470'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2010/12/un-dia-estupendo-great-day.html' title='Un día estupendo. A great day'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TQ9rqhj5mOI/AAAAAAAAAeE/rxfdvYNh9AU/s72-c/youth+party+%252810%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-1499544174566252319</id><published>2010-12-18T10:34:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2010-12-18T10:34:15.466+06:00</updated><title type='text'>La cosecha. Harvesting time</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;These past days it’s been harvest time. People go to the rice fields and share the work. Some reap rice, others tie it in bundles, others take it home, and others bark it. And all happen in the midst of greatest joy. They have been waiting for this moment for months. They planted, fertilized, watered, removed weeds, and waited for the weather and circumstances to be propitious. Now you can see the smiles on all faces when they harvest. It's time to reap the fruits of their labor, time to laugh. It's like the Psalm: "They were weeping, carrying seed; they came back singing, bringing in the sheaves." It is time to celebrate; when they finish the daily work, at night, they gather around the fire and eat, drink, sing and dance. They celebrate the end of the cycle of life, when collecting the fruits of their efforts. It's all a parable of life itself. Incidentally, the photo shows Bro. Mark reaping with some of the boys from our school.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TQw5LhhSSJI/AAAAAAAAAeA/4TMQq0TBOKs/s1600/PA220011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TQw5LhhSSJI/AAAAAAAAAeA/4TMQq0TBOKs/s400/PA220011.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Estos días pasados ha sido tiempo de cosechar. La gente se va a los campos de arroz y se reparten el trabajo. Unos siegan el arroz, otros los atan en gavillas, otros lo llevan a las casas, otros lo descortezan. Y todo en medio de una gran alegría. Han estado esperando este momento durante meses. Plantaron, abonaron, regaron, quitaron las malas hierbas, y esperaron a que las circunstancias y el clima fueran propicios. Ahora puedes ver sonrisas en todas las caras cuando cosechan. Es tiempo de recoger los frutos del trabajo, es tiempo de reír. Es como en el salmo: “Al ir iban llorando, llevando la semilla; al volver vuelven cantando, trayendo las gavillas”. Y es tiempo de celebrar; cuando terminan el trabajo, por la noche, se reúnen en torno al fuego y comen, beben, cantan y bailan. Celebran el final del ciclo de la vida, cuando se recogen los frutos del esfuerzo. Es toda una parábola de la vida misma. Por cierto, en la foto se ve al H. Mark segando con algunos de los muchachos de la escuela.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-1499544174566252319?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/1499544174566252319/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=1499544174566252319&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1499544174566252319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/1499544174566252319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2010/12/la-cosecha-harvesting-time.html' title='La cosecha. Harvesting time'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TQw5LhhSSJI/AAAAAAAAAeA/4TMQq0TBOKs/s72-c/PA220011.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-8422624067344215307</id><published>2010-12-13T20:49:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2010-12-13T20:49:27.589+06:00</updated><title type='text'>La doctora Mariko. Doctor Mariko</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TQYx8ROm7kI/AAAAAAAAAd8/dm7yLw2kLVM/s1600/mariko.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TQYx8ROm7kI/AAAAAAAAAd8/dm7yLw2kLVM/s640/mariko.jpg" width="288" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Resolutely God does his best to put wonderful people in my path. Mariko is a Japanese lady doctor. She belongs to the NGO Japan Overseas Christian Medical Cooperative, JOCS. She has left her country, her family, her environment, in order to come to work in Bangladesh, very close to our mission. Mariko at once dressed as a woman of the Mandi tribe and started working from the first day at Kailakuri Clinic with Dr. Baker. Simple, humble, little by little, like an ant. And it's amazing the work that this woman has done in a few months taking care of all kinds of sick people, especially the poorest among the poor. She has also managed to express herself correctly in Bangla in a small time. The people around have learned to love her. You know that people do not love you for the work you do (at least not only that), but how you do it and how you live your life. Mariko is admirable for its simplicity, humility and helpfulness, but mostly by the smile that she offers to the people she meets with. Now she has returned to Japan for a month or so to spend Christmas with her husband and family, but she will return. Thanks, Dr. Mariko for the witness of a mature life dedicated to God and the poor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Decididamente Dios se empeña en poner personas maravillosas en mi camino. Mariko es una doctora japonesa. Pertenece a la ONG Japan Overseas Cooperativa Médica Cristiana JOCS. Ha dejado su país, su familia, su ambiente, para venirse a trabajar a Bangladesh, muy cerquita de nuestra Misión. Mariko se vistió enseguida como las mujeres de la tribu Mandi y se puso a trabajar desde el primer día en la clínica de Kailakuri, con el Dr. Baker. Sencillamente, humildemente, poco a poco, como una hormiguita. Y es sorprendente el trabajo que esta mujer ha hecho en pocos meses atendiendo toda clase de enfermos pobres entre los pobres. Ha logrado además expresarse correctamente en Bangla en un tiempo record. La gente de los alrededores ha aprendido a quererla y apreciarla. Ya sabes que la gente no te quiere por el trabajo que haces (al menos no sólo por eso), sino por cómo lo haces y cómo vives tu vida. Mariko es admirable por su sencillez, humildad y servicialidad, pero sobre todo por la sonrisa con la que obsequia a las personas con las que trata. Ahora se ha vuelto a Japón durante un mes para pasar la Navidad con su marido y su familia, pero volverá. Gracias, Dra. Mariko por su testimonio de una vida madura y entregada a Dios y a los pobres.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-8422624067344215307?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/8422624067344215307/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=8422624067344215307&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/8422624067344215307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/8422624067344215307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2010/12/la-doctora-mariko-doctor-mariko.html' title='La doctora Mariko. Doctor Mariko'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TQYx8ROm7kI/AAAAAAAAAd8/dm7yLw2kLVM/s72-c/mariko.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-6243732808834267166</id><published>2010-12-12T21:19:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2010-12-12T21:19:09.197+06:00</updated><title type='text'>¿De dónde sacan las fuerzas? Where do they get the energy from?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TQTnRcHPQMI/AAAAAAAAAds/WGXFfkWA9lE/s1600/SAM_0505.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TQTnRcHPQMI/AAAAAAAAAds/WGXFfkWA9lE/s320/SAM_0505.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;I've tried, but did not last even 4 meters. I mean, to carry the load of firewood like this woman of the Mandi tribe, here in Pirgacha. It's amazing the power that these women have, especially when you see how thin and fragile they look like. I do not know where they get energy. Maybe they take it from the sense of duty to work for their home, take care of their children; but I believe that love is what makes them so strong. Love makes efforts not painful, but joyful. Decidedly, the mother's love is one of the greatest forces in the universe, able to move mountains, to change hearts, to transform societies. Blessed women from whose womb we come from. Blessed are the mothers who bring us to life and teach us to live.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TQTnKpBsROI/AAAAAAAAAdo/XEzt_1mtnu4/s1600/SAM_0504.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TQTnKpBsROI/AAAAAAAAAdo/XEzt_1mtnu4/s320/SAM_0504.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Yo lo he intentado, pero no duré ni 4 metros. Llevar la carga de leña que lleva esta mujer de la tribu Mandi, aquí en Pirgacha, digo. Es increíble la fuerza que estas mujeres tienen, sobre todo cuando les miras y te parecen tan delgadas y frágiles. No sé de dónde sacan la energía. Quizá la saquen del sentido del deber de trabajar para su hogar, de sacar adelante a los hijos; pero también creo que es el amor lo que las hace ser tan fuertes. El amor hace que los esfuerzos no sean penosos, sino gozosos. Decididamente, el amor de madre es una de las mayores fuerzas del universo, capaz de mover montañas, de cambiar corazones, de transformar sociedades. Benditas mujeres de cuyo vientre venimos. Benditas madres que nos traen a la vida y nos enseñan a vivir.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-6243732808834267166?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/6243732808834267166/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=6243732808834267166&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6243732808834267166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6243732808834267166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2010/12/de-donde-sacan-las-fuerzas-where-do.html' title='¿De dónde sacan las fuerzas? Where do they get the energy from?'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TQTnRcHPQMI/AAAAAAAAAds/WGXFfkWA9lE/s72-c/SAM_0505.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-5382476162468763849</id><published>2010-12-07T21:38:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2010-12-07T21:38:08.248+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Calcular bien las distancias. Calculating distances</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Once I met an old Marist Brother who taught me how to live with the Virgin Mary. When asked, "Brother Mariano, how long is the soccer field?” He replied "12 Hail Marys." "What is the distance from our house to town, Brother Mariano?" "4 mysteries of the rosary." And all well. He really calculated the distances in Hail Marys, this means that almost every time he went somewhere, he was praying. Brother Mariano taught me to live with Mary. Mary is all the love of God made mother's heart, is a constant presence, a breath, a walk. Hail Mary, Hail Mary. I know she's there even when I don’t see her, watches over me, comes with me, breathes with me, prays with me. Hail Mary, Hail Mary. Mary, our Good Mother, my Good Mother. Always with me, always by my side. Hail Mary, Hail Mary.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TP5USuOAH6I/AAAAAAAAAdg/wuaYSApwEco/s1600/Imagen+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TP5USuOAH6I/AAAAAAAAAdg/wuaYSApwEco/s400/Imagen+001.jpg" width="206" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Conocí a un viejo hermano marista que me enseñó cómo vivir con la Virgen María. Cuando le preguntabas, “Hermano Mariano, ¿cómo es de largo el campo de fútbol?”, él respondía “12 avemarías”. “¿Qué distancia hay de nuestra casa al pueblo, Hermano Mariano?” “4 misterios del rosario”. Y todo así. Calculaba las distancias en avemarías; eso quiere decir que casi siempre que iba a algún sitio, iba rezando. El Hermano Mariano me enseñó a vivir con María. María es todo el amor de Dios hecho corazón maternal, es una presencia constante, una respiración, un caminar. Avemaría, avemaría. Sé que está ahí aun cuando yo no la veo; vela por mí, viene conmigo, respira conmigo, reza conmigo. Avemaría, avemaría. María, nuestra Buena Madre, mi Buena Madre. Siempre conmigo, siempre a mi lado. Avemaría, avemaría.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-5382476162468763849?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/5382476162468763849/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=5382476162468763849&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5382476162468763849'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/5382476162468763849'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2010/12/calcular-bien-las-distancias.html' title='Calcular bien las distancias. Calculating distances'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TP5USuOAH6I/AAAAAAAAAdg/wuaYSApwEco/s72-c/Imagen+001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-6936588996876136416</id><published>2010-12-06T16:03:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2010-12-06T16:04:27.826+06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='typical'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tipica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bangladesh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>¿Qué has comido hoy? What did you eat today?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Sometimes my family and my friends ask me how the food in Bangladesh is. Well, here's what we have eaten today, which can be regarded as a typical meal in Bangladesh: white rice cooked with water and salt, a vegetable similar to spinach but with a slightly bitter taste, and beef with potatoes. There is something that the photo cannot show: smell and taste. But I would say that Bengali cuisine is characterized by the abundance of spices - no less than 10 on each course. So, smell and taste are very intense. Of course many of these spices are also hot, even very hot. You must mix everything on your plate before you eat using the right hand (no cutlery). For dessert, sweet bananas. And to drink, clean water.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TPy0qrkpRbI/AAAAAAAAAdc/80aTYCH05gk/s1600/SAM_0501.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TPy0qrkpRbI/AAAAAAAAAdc/80aTYCH05gk/s400/SAM_0501.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;A veces mi familia y mis amigos me preguntan qué se come en Bangladesh. Bueno, pues aquí tienes lo que hemos comido hoy, que puede ser considerado como una comida típica en Bangladesh: arroz blanco cocido con agua y sal, una verdura parecida a la espinaca pero con un sabor ligeramente amargo, y carne de vaca con patatas. Hay algo que la foto no puede mostrar, y es el olor y el sabor. Pero te diré que la cocina bengalí se caracteriza por la abundancia de especias – no menos de 10 en cada plato. Así que el olor y el sabor son intensísimos. Por supuesto muchas de esas especias son además picantes, incluso muy picantes. Se mezcla todo en el plato antes de comérselo utilizando la mano derecha (nada de cubiertos). De postre, plátanos dulces. Y para beber, agua clara.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-6936588996876136416?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/6936588996876136416/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=6936588996876136416&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6936588996876136416'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6936588996876136416'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2010/12/que-has-comido-hoy-what-did-you-eat.html' title='¿Qué has comido hoy? What did you eat today?'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TPy0qrkpRbI/AAAAAAAAAdc/80aTYCH05gk/s72-c/SAM_0501.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-6629007413415107878</id><published>2010-12-02T15:01:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2010-12-02T15:08:21.075+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Perdóname por ser rico. Forgive me for being rich</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TPdfNXtwnjI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/LS4ZNjSA0is/s1600/baker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TPdfNXtwnjI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/LS4ZNjSA0is/s320/baker.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I almost felt guilty when Dr. Baker, a New Zelander missionary doctor working a few miles away from our mission, has brought me some papers relating his experiences with the poor inhabitants of this part of Bangladesh. I've been sick and I went to a good hospital, my Brothers have spared no means to make me recover. These poor people cannot afford anything like that. Reading the papers is chilling. Lord, forgive me for being rich; I hope I will be able to go through the eye of the needle the day I will appear in front of you. You can read an extract from the&lt;a href="http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/p/english-stories.html"&gt; papers of Dr. Baker HERE&lt;/a&gt;; is a little long but worth it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TPdfWfXzHxI/AAAAAAAAAdU/5ozHyACnKss/s1600/DrBecker1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TPdfWfXzHxI/AAAAAAAAAdU/5ozHyACnKss/s320/DrBecker1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Casi me he sentido culpable cuando el Doctor Baker, un médico misionero neozelandés que trabaja a pocos kilómetros de nuestra misión, me ha traído unos papeles relatando sus experiencias con los pobres habitantes de esta parte de Bangladesh. Yo he estado enfermo y he ido a un buen hospital, mis Hermanos no han escatimado medios para que me recuperase, me han llevado y traído, mimado casi. Esta pobre gente no se puede permitir nada de eso. La lectura de los papeles es escalofriante. Señor, perdóname por ser rico, espero que pueda pasar por el ojo de la aguja el día que me presente ante Ti. Puedes leer un extracto de&lt;a href="http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/p/historias-en-espanol.html"&gt; los papeles del Dr. Baker AQUI&lt;/a&gt;, aunque es un poco largo merece la pena.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-6629007413415107878?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/6629007413415107878/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=6629007413415107878&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6629007413415107878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6629007413415107878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2010/12/perdoname-por-ser-rico-forgive-me-for.html' title='Perdóname por ser rico. Forgive me for being rich'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TPdfNXtwnjI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/LS4ZNjSA0is/s72-c/baker.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-2993696038217478068</id><published>2010-11-30T21:05:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2010-11-30T21:05:09.449+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Joven viejo cristiano. Old young Christian</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;I do not know the name of the man in the picture. Sometimes I cross him on the way to the parish or to the school. The kids tell me it's a young old Christian, to say that he had converted to Christianity in his old age. People say that if you go in years is difficult to change ... this man is the living proof to the contrary. We can all change for the better whatever our circumstances could be. I wish I could be as brave as him and convert from my faults, sins, crazes and foibles in spite of my age.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TPUSNuhnLcI/AAAAAAAAAdM/q1RY-EHIaLo/s1600/new+christian.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TPUSNuhnLcI/AAAAAAAAAdM/q1RY-EHIaLo/s400/new+christian.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;No sé cómo se llama el señor de la foto. Me lo encuentro a veces en el camino a la parroquia o la escuela. Los chavales me dicen que es un joven viejo cristiano, quiere decir que se ha convertido al cristianismo en su ancianidad. Dicen que cuando uno se adentra en años es difícil cambiar… este hombre es la prueba viviente de lo contrario. Todos podemos cambiar a mejor cualquiera que sean nuestras circunstancias. Ojalá pudiera yo ser tan valiente como él y convertirme de mis faltas, pecados y manías, a pesar de mis años.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-2993696038217478068?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/2993696038217478068/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=2993696038217478068&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/2993696038217478068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/2993696038217478068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2010/11/joven-viejo-cristiano-old-young.html' title='Joven viejo cristiano. Old young Christian'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TPUSNuhnLcI/AAAAAAAAAdM/q1RY-EHIaLo/s72-c/new+christian.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-6158010239122983953</id><published>2010-11-17T08:18:00.001+06:00</published><updated>2010-11-17T08:19:06.912+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Me desperté cantando la Salve. I woke up singing Salve Regina</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;I have got a urinary tract infection. I was first hospitalized in Dhaka, then in Bangkok. In Bangkok they have made a minor operation on me. It was the first time in my life to go to an operation room, and although it was a little thing, the truth is that I was terrified. I was put under local anesthesia, but I slept fully. The last thing I remember is that I was praying Hail Marys when the anesthesiologist asked me some crazy question. And the first thing I remember when I woke up is that I was singing the Salve Regina at full voice, amid the bewilderment of the nurses. And I think it's wonderful to feel well in the hands of our Good Mother, she guides me, protects me, and loves me. It’s wonderful to live and die as a son of Mary. That's all I'm taking when I leave this vale of tears.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TOM6lmMDmQI/AAAAAAAAAdI/xMZ8hZNzprw/s1600/mapa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TOM6lmMDmQI/AAAAAAAAAdI/xMZ8hZNzprw/s400/mapa.jpg" width="330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Me ha entrado una infección en el tracto urinario, que después se ha complicado. Primero estuve hospitalizado en Dhaka, y después en Bangkok. En Bangkok me han hecho una pequeña intervención. Era la primera vez en mi vida que pasaba por un quirófano, y aunque era cosa de poco, la verdad es que estaba “acojonadito”, y nunca mejor dicho. Me pusieron anestesia local, pero me durmieron totalmente. Lo último que recuerdo es que iba rezando avemarías cuando la anestesista me preguntó no sé qué. Y lo primero que recuerdo al despertar es que estaba cantando la Salve a todo trapo, en medio de la perplejidad de las enfermeras. Y pienso que es maravilloso sentirse así en manos de la Buena Madre; ella me lleva, me trae, me acompaña, me guía, me protege, me quiere. Qué bueno es vivir y morir como hijo de María. Es lo único que me voy a llevar cuando deje este valle de lágrimas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-6158010239122983953?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/6158010239122983953/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=6158010239122983953&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6158010239122983953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6158010239122983953'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2010/11/me-desperte-cantando-la-salve-i-woke-up.html' title='Me desperté cantando la Salve. I woke up singing Salve Regina'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TOM6lmMDmQI/AAAAAAAAAdI/xMZ8hZNzprw/s72-c/mapa.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-6422455773641764538</id><published>2010-11-13T07:01:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2010-11-13T07:01:24.805+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Algo sobre mi madre. Something about my mother</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;The day after falling unwell, my mother phoned me from Spain. It was 8 pm here and 2 in the afternoon there. After exchanging greetings and so, I learn she just got home. "Where have you been all morning?" I ask. "In the church of the Augustinian" she says. In this church they have perpetual exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. So my mother has passed from 9 am until about 2 pm praying for me before the Lord. I was excited thinking about my mother, who from the distance loves me, prays for me and thinks of me. As I said before, my mother is more a missionary than I am.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"&gt;I’ve put a photo of the breathtaking view of Bangkok which can be enjoyed from the hospital room where I slowly recover from my infection. Awesome!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TN3jC9pxxOI/AAAAAAAAAdE/CGN_HnJShQg/s1600/St.+Louis+Hospital+%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TN3jC9pxxOI/AAAAAAAAAdE/CGN_HnJShQg/s400/St.+Louis+Hospital+%25281%2529.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Al día siguiente de caer malito, mi madre me telefoneó desde España. Eran las 8 de la tarde aquí y las 2 de la tarde allá. Tras intercambiar saludos y demás, me entero que acaba de llegar a casa. “¿Y dónde has estado toda la mañana?”, pregunto. “En la iglesia de las Agustinas”, me dice. En esta iglesia tienen exposición perpetua del Santísimo. O sea que mi madre se ha pasado desde las 9 de la mañana hasta casi las 2 de la tarde rezando por mí ante el Señor. Me emocioné al pensar en mi madre, que desde la distancia me quiere, reza por mí y piensa en mí. Como he dicho en otras ocasiones, mi madre es más misionera que yo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;He puesto una foto de la impresionante vista de Bangkok que se puede gozar desde la habitación del hospital en el que me recupero poco a poco de mi infección. ¡Impresionante!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-6422455773641764538?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/6422455773641764538/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=6422455773641764538&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6422455773641764538'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/6422455773641764538'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2010/11/algo-sobre-mi-madre-something-about-my.html' title='Algo sobre mi madre. Something about my mother'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TN3jC9pxxOI/AAAAAAAAAdE/CGN_HnJShQg/s72-c/St.+Louis+Hospital+%25281%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738045543277977608.post-3350171133000306123</id><published>2010-10-30T08:07:00.000+06:00</published><updated>2010-10-30T08:07:22.476+06:00</updated><title type='text'>Mi ángel de la guarda. My guardian angel</title><content type='html'>His name is Andrew Chan. He is a Marist Brother of Chinese origin that now lives and works in Bangkok, where I have come to recover from an infection. Since I came here, he has become my guardian angel: he took me to the hospital, to the pharmacy, he paid the bills, all the time he devotes his attention to me, he asks me regularly if I need something, he brings me whatever I could need. And all that with a constant delightful smile, and an Oriental sensitivity so rare to us, barbarian western people. Andrew is a God’s blessing, always attentive to others' needs. I would like to learn from him the art of tact, service and discretion. Thank you, Lord, for bringing to my path every day wonderful persons, images of Your Self.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TMt9B8gdHtI/AAAAAAAAAdA/zlXhj1Xsp98/s1600/AndrewChan.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="342" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TMt9B8gdHtI/AAAAAAAAAdA/zlXhj1Xsp98/s400/AndrewChan.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Se llama Andrew Chan. Es un Marista de origen chino que ahora vive y trabaja en Bangkok, adonde he venido a recuperarme de una infección. Desde que he llegado se ha convertido en mi ángel de la guarda: me ha llevado al médico, a la farmacia, ha pagado las facturas, a cada momento está pendiente de si me hace falta algo, me pregunta constantemente cómo me encuentro, me trae lo que pueda necesitar. Y todo con una permanente encantadora sonrisa y una sensibilidad oriental, tan rara para nosotros los que venimos del bárbaro mundo occidental. Andrew es una bendición de Dios, siempre atento a lo que los demás puedan necesitar. Me gustaría aprender de su arte de la delicadeza, el servicio y la discreción. Gracias, Señor, por poner todos los días en mi camino personas maravillosas, imágenes de ti.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3738045543277977608-3350171133000306123?l=uwavutse.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/feeds/3350171133000306123/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3738045543277977608&amp;postID=3350171133000306123&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3350171133000306123'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738045543277977608/posts/default/3350171133000306123'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://uwavutse.blogspot.com/2010/10/mi-angel-de-la-guarda-my-guardian-angel.html' title='Mi ángel de la guarda. My guardian angel'/><author><name>uwavutse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18037966109549033973</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H2216jFZ-QQ/TyC4FJSqbSI/AAAAAAAAA2k/sPz10QNTUgo/s220/biday.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XIuWSAlgtIY/TMt9B8gdHtI/AAAAAAAAAdA/zlXhj1Xsp98/s72-c/AndrewChan.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry></feed>
