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Wednesday Nov 22, 2006

slowly getting closer!

only 46days to go! everything is getting very close, bought my kit, and managed to annoy my mum and the sales assistant greatly by insisting that I get the orange rucksack because I liked the colour (and I still do!) despite it not being as practical as the plain black one. Applied for my visa with shocking photos, I looked like a starteled rabbit. and sent off my last bit of money, so Im all ready to go!

what I wanted to talk about though was something else that has been making me think. I do a photography course and the woman I sit next to found out last week, or the week before that she has won 8 and a half MILLION pounds on the lottery! Shes probably in her 50's, and want to go on holiday to lapland with it. the interest she earns in one day on her winnings would pay for my trip to tanzania, think what a difference even 5 million could make to people living in poverty across the world. it could pay for hudereds of thousands of children to go to school, and learn to spell hundred! stop child labour, build proper housing for people living under inadequate shelter. Then I thought that acctually 8 million would make a huge difference, but not without passionate people behind it, making it work....and one passionate person can make more difference than 8 million pounds.

But you know what would be great....a compassionate rich person! but can that acctually exist? If someone is charitable and genererouswould they ever be able to make a fortune, without using it or giving it away before it builds up. And if they are born into it, can they ever keep it? I dont know...

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Posted by Emily ( 4:55 PM )
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