My Forest is Thawing

I can't describe the freedom of finally being able to bike again, the hills that take your breath away (literally, those things are steep), the feeling as you pick up speed going downhill trying to avoid whats left of the mud and patches of ice, I may wear a helmet but the cool wind against my face seems so fresh, it was heaven, the one reason i'm glad the car hit me, if it hadn't i'd never realized how much I love biking. I kept my eye out for the first hints of snow drops (the flower). I don't think they are my mom's favorite flower but I know that they mean a lot to her and they are beautiful, the way they carpet the forest floor.

I got a call from Red Barnet today, one of the charity associations in Denmark specifically focusing on children, I think, they asked if I was interested in helping them with a new project called Værktøjskassen, basically i'd be going around to local businesses and asking for donations and their support, donating items such as football cleats to less fortunate children in the community. I got to admit a part of it seems wrong to me, all my life i've worked with charities focusing on just the simple act of giving food, clean water and shelter to children in a third world countries, this seems odd for some reason, almost spoiled, but a part of me knows that it would mean everything to a kid from a poorer background (no one in Denmark is truly poor) to be able to play football with his friends, or a sleeping bag so he can go camping with the local scouts. I guess i'm just happy to be doing something and I do love helping, it's one of the things IB has truly prepared me to do, which means that so far my opportunities are teaching the elderly to use macs and contacting local businesses for donations, it's good but it's a whole new form of charity for me to involved in, i've never done anything this local, wait that's wrong I did teach english at the migrant school in China, that was local, but never anything local in Denmark, although i've never considered myself separated from my charity work in other countries never consider that they were in other countries.

Not much else happened today, I looked at local attractions at the zoo in Scotland, I love Zoos and animals in general and later i'll look at other attractions and then I talked to a friend. For me I can be closer to friend that I talk to on skype or facebook then one I see everyday, it doesn't matter to me, but I can talk about anything, being whimsical at times or confiding in a friend when i'm upset, means a lot to me, its one of the things about growing up internationally you get friends for life even if you don't see them everyday, some people may not see how it's possible but you don't have to see the person or talk to them every day, but you still know that they're there for you, what more could a person ask for?