Take it all in

Were supposed to write a clever and funny blog post as a parody of the book Everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten. To be completely honest I have no clue where I learned everything I needed to learn. I haven't even learned all I need/want to learn. A safe guess would be through travel. My mom works for Northwest Airlines. We have been across the nation and back countless times. We've been across seas and back a significant number of times. Traveling really has taught me loads. Such examples as, don't drink the water, and wipe back to front. But the most humbling lesson is being thankful. My dad was born and raised in Casablanca, Morocco. I've been there roughly nine times. And each and every time i visit, i see poverty first hand. Morocco is considered to be a third world country. I have experienced what it's like to live dirt poor. In the summer of '07, my sister and I spent the month of July in Morocco. We stayed with distant family across the country. In Fez, a city north east of Casablanca, we stayed with some cousins. This family had nothing. No TV. No radio. No lavish furniture. No hardwood flooring. The kids had a tattered soccer ball that had hardly and air in it. And yet they were happy as can be. The only form of entertainment they had was story telling. I remember giving the youngest of three kids a whistle. The look on his face as he blew into it, in an ecstatic manner, could be the cure of the common cold. Upon my return to Minnesota, I realized how spoiled kids are in the USA. How they aren't satisfied with what they have. How they are always looking for more to have. Reflect on what I've written for you now. If you were ti take everything out of your house right now and put it in your front yard, do you think it would fill the whole yard? Imagine if it would only fill the sidewalk in front of your front yard. Humbling isn't it?