Theater the Nepali way

This morning we were introduced to a video clip from youtube.com about social change and how we ourselves can have an impact on social change just by doing small things like standing out in a crowd. The video clip showed actors in London lying on the street and acting ill. No one stopped to help them even though the human traffic at the spot was massive. It wasn't until the male actor was dressed in a suit people immediately stopped to help him.
I think a lot of us were quite stunned. I guess we all expect that people at least would stop to ask if you need a hand. We all agreed that we from now will be attentive to people around us, even though they're not dressed in a proper way.

Around midday a guy from an organization called Heartbeat dropped by. I'm sorry, but I can't remember his name. The names can be really difficult here. He introduced us to a project called tea4free. He meets street children on the streets every tuesday morning where he gives them a cup of tea and talk to them. We're going to attend one of these mornings and learn a lot more about the relentless life on the streets.

This afternoon we went to the theater. We were going to see a play about social change. However something went wrong and we were to see a rehearsal of another play. It was really fun and kind of strange to watch a play where you don't understand the lines. The play was repeatedly interrupted by the director, an american woman, and she asked us advice about the acting. Louise was so cool and brave and she joined the play to show us her version of how a deceased mother would care for her son.

Hope everything is well in Denmark. We're all doing fine here and are finding it hard to get the time to communicate with you guys back home.

- Maria