Sadly inspring story.

In my frist lesson of the day (theological reasoning) we had to do a presentation on places that we wanted to goto in the future or really really liked. Me, Laura and Kayleigh did a presentation on New York City, yep. Itwent well. There were also presentations on Australia, Alaska, New Zealand, Finland, Peru, Russia and Lebanon. The las presentation was by Stephan. He wanted to go to two places, the first place was Turkey because he loves it there and the sencond was Romania. Now, I thought he wanted to go there for fun because Dani had chosen the obscure Lebanon and Adam had chosen Peru, oddly, so I just dismissed it. That was until he started going on about how he would like to meet his birth mum and dad. He was adopted from Romania with his brother at the age of 4 months and has never been back. Me and Kayleigh sat there aghast, not quite beliveing this. I felt so sorry that he had never know his real mum and dad and that he could have had a completely diffrent life in Romania if it wasn't for his adoptive parents. I started wondering about how children just like him in Romania really need help because the orphanages are apalling over there and poverty is common in Romania. These children need to be adopted otherwise they could go into a life of crime or even die atr a young age due to poverty. It also got me thinking about how his parents must have been in real trouble to give up both their children, as far as I know they are not the same age. For all he knows his parents ould be dead and he will probably never know. It makes me so sad that there are children out there who may never have a loving fmaily and there are that lucky few who escape their destinies with the help of adoption or forstering.

I just....
Yeah...
It's a tough subject to dwell on.
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