from corina

October 20th:  Desperate for love.  We all are. no one wants to end up alone.

October 19th: Desperate for the ones we love. 

this picture is dedicated to those familys who lost their loved ones in the vahland ave car crash, and to my friend john and his family whose dad was killed in a car crash.

corina

Week one

October 18th:  Desperate for air!

sometimes i feel so overwhelmed by emotions i feel like im drowning… im desperate for someone to pull me up and save me from myself, desperate to be able to breathe freely again.  we need each other, other people, to be our lifeline sometimes and pull us up out of the water. thats wat great friends are for, and im blessed to have people in my life who are there to pull me up when i need it…

October 17th:  Desperate to have some FUN!!!!!

sometimes we get bogged down with feeling crap, wen all we need to do as amps would say is “shake it off!”

trolleys, pool noodles and a couple hundred young ppl = FUN TIMES! 

 

from corina

Place: Community Centre Office

Poison: Curry

Favourite Things: graffitti done with chalk

Well its been an adverturous first week. The creative arts camp has finished for week one and we are taking the children to the beach tomorrow. They are so excited. There has been roughly 89 kids in the creative arts camp and the skills they are learning are so practical and fresh.

The UNOH team here are amazing and are doing the most stirling job!

Anyways quick catch up.

Amps

i took this pic today of a man sleeping in the park… maybe homeless, maybe not, but it seems so sad that people are sleeping in parks in our own city.  the number of homeless people is huge in perth.  he must be pretty desperate for some rest, he didnt even notice i was there in the park with him.  i find it quite ironic that he looks like a corspe jus lying there on the grass, and right across the road is a funeral place.

corina

no matter who u are, at some point in life u’ll feel like the man in this picture.  alone, isolated, and desperate for a sense of purpose and hope in ur world.  we all know people who suffer from depression, maybe even know someone that has committed suicide.  we need to love each other and reach out to those in our world who are desperate for someone to love them. 

by corina

ever had those days where ur so sick that u have to shove tissues up ur nose to keep the snot from coming out?  well im having one of those days…..

im desperate to get better so i can do everything i have to

im also desperate for just one day of perfect rest…maybe a back massage, manicure, hot spa… hmmmmm all those delightful things that make u feel better and healthy!

from corina

today i did this painting, it was jus how i was feeling at the time and it came out, was done in under an hour.  sometimes words jus can’t express the way we feel… not for me anyway.

corina

Place: The community centre

Posion: sticky rice and chicken

Favourite Things: the thai people

Yes I am still writing, but it is not easy to express what my heart and world is experiencing right now. I am emersed in the community of the khlong toey slum, and even though this is my third time here, I am not sure I will go home the same.

I am doing everything I can not to judge, not to make quick decisions, as I have no comprehension of the culture and the people. We can be so quick to judge, with no understanding.

We should be moved to compassion, without casting judgement.

The community, the smell of the sewer, the love of the families, the poverty of the poorest of the poor, combines to scar ones heart forever.

I am surrounded by the most amazing people.

stunned

enlarged

engaged

undone

never want to leave

A