refugee’s, I struck up a conversation today. Turns out that that 2 of them were, arriving in the US 4 and 7 years ago respectively. They didn’t know any English when the arrived. Now they speak reasonably well – enough that we could communicate, though with some measure of repeating words to understand. It’s exciting to think that we might be able to help people out in a similar way through volunteering with the refugee program. We need to get our applications turned in – my goal is by Thanksgiving. Then, hopefully in the years that follow, the people we help will become settled and become productive members of society. Continue reading “A Few Years Later…”