TIB: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Home Delivery (fwd)
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TIB: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Home Delivery (fwd)
You guys still aren't talking! Maybe this will get your programming
spirits up! :)
Grant
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> Today's Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul...
>
> Foreign Exchange
>
> We met and greeted Andrea as she got off the chartered bus
> with the rest of the students from her country. These were
> foreign exchange students from Slovakia. Andrea spoke English,
> but she was very nervous. I can understand her trepidation, we
> are a family of five. The kids are so used to having foreign
> students around that they just walked right up to her and wanted
> to hug her, but as we found out later, she was unfamiliar with
> the hugging part. We hug a lot! We hug each other many times each
> day, and Andrea was watching it all. I could see the expression
> on her face each time she saw us hugging. She loved it. She
> wanted it.
> She told me of her youth in Europe. Basically her mother was
> very loving and they had a loving relationship, as Andrea said,
> "in a European sort of way." She had not been held by her mother
> since she was a small child.
> While living with us for the summer of 1992, Andrea became
> part of our family. We grew to love each other very quickly, and
> we hugged.
> She learned the joys of hugging, and most of all she learned
> that she needed to share this emotional experience with her
> mother.
> At the end of August, Andrea returned to Slovakia. She flew
> to Munich, where her mother met her at the airport. Her mother
> was in for the surprise of her life. Andrea's mother greeted her
> with her usual loving smile and words, and helped Andrea carry
> her bags.
> Andrea lovingly took her mother by the arm and said, "Mummy,
> I want to give you a hug." Andrea relates that for only a moment
> her mother didn't know what to do. Andrea looked into her
> mother's eyes, tears in both of their eyes, and she said, "Mummy,
> I need to hug you, and I need for you to hug me, a lot!" They did
> just that. They didn't move an inch from the arrival area of the
> airport. Andrea says that they sat there for the next three
> hours. They cried. They hugged. They talked. They cried more,
> hugged more and talked forever. Andrea says she will raise her
> own children with a lot of hugging. She says that her mother
> wants to be a big part of that, too.
>
> By Mary Jane West-Delgado
> from A Cup of Chicken Soup for the Soul
> Copyright 1996 by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Barry
> Spilchuk
>
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