The Story of the Linne-Laughlin Family!: OPERATION SMILE!

Friday, December 28, 2007

OPERATION SMILE!

I am overjoyed with gratitude and happiness to inform you that I have been accepted to the Operation Smile 2008 Winter Missionary Training Workshop for Student Education Sponsors! I will travel to Norfolk, Virginia on January 18 - 21 for training. On future cleft lip/palate medical missions to Asia for, which I am assigned, my role will be to:

"Educate two students about the values of commitment, leadership and volunteerism. Operation Smile takes two volunteer student educators and a student sponsor on every international medical mission. Students learn how they can impact the future when they help children in need."

This is right up my alley! You no idea how excited I am to be part of this organization. Founded in 1982, Operation Smile has performed cranio-facial surgeries on over 100,000 children worldwide!

"Our Mission throughout the world: Operation Smile volunteers repair childhood facial deformities while building public and private partnerships that advocate for sustainable healthcare systems for children and families. Together, we create smiles, change lives, heal humanity."

For more information, go to www.operationsmile.com

YAHOO!! Tracie

1 comment:

Anne said...: Yeah Tracie!! You'll be great!; December 28, 2007 at 4:58 PM

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A Profound Quote From my Friend Marry

QUOTE OF THE DAY: I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make a life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a person humanized or de-humanized.If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL

The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and together with Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival forms one of the three major Chinese holidays. Since the summer is a time when diseases most easily spread, Dragon Boat Festival began as an occasion for driving off evil spirits and pestilence and for finding peace in one's life. The festival was later enriched by the legend of the patriot Chu Yuan. Dragon Boat Festival is highlighted by the dragon boat races, in which competing teams drive their boats forward rowing to the rhythm of pounding drums. This lively and colorful tradition has continued unbroken for centuries to the present day. The festival's significance as a time for warding off evil and disease is symbolized by a number of customary practices such as hanging calamus and moxa on the front door, and pasting up pictures of Chung Kuei (a nemesis of evil spirits). Adults drink hsiung huang wine and children are given fragrant sachets, both of which are said to possess qualities for preventing evil and bringing peace.