Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Fantastic Volunteer work

Last Friday a 19 year old woman born in Bangladesh visited my english class. She told her story, which was outstanding, about muscular dystrophy. It almost made me cry. Her story was about how muscular dystrophy affected her brother and she told us how severe it can be. Her brother of 12 years old has the most severe and common type. Ms. Din told us that that muscular dystrophy is from genetics and usually only males get it, but sometimes girls can get it too. It has to do with the X and Y chromosomes.
Ms. Din's story was heartbreaking and depressing. It inspired me and educated me about the world we live in. The world seems perfect on the outside, but in reality it's chaotic and is full of discrimination toward people who are alienated because of it.