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04th of July, 2016
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Finding Nepal
The buses beside me were filled with sad and serious faces, condemned to the hardships of life, but our bus was filled with the giddy faces of excited girls, their joyous songs echoing throughout the vehicle. For many of them, it was the first time to see a movie theater, thus their faces beamed...
We began the afternoon by collecting bundles of wild sage, which was later used in a cleansing ceremony for Lakota youth who had suffered from trauma. After the children were cleansed, and the older men finished their inipi (the rite of purification), we entered the inipi for our own experience. The Unci (elder grandmother) opened...
On the second day of the horse festival I began to play with the kids from the orphanage. I would run up and down the side of the hill, chasing the children to try to tickle them. After only ten minutes it seemed like we had known each other for quite some time. They would...
