Every experience is an opportunity to teach and learn – that’s what I learned today 🙂

It’s 6: 35 PM on day 443 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign – no luck – prepare and publish my Disability of the Day feature,  feed myself an egg sandwich for lunch, watch TV and  feed myself steamed vegetables for dinner

As you may know my family and I are leaving for India on 8 December 2011 and although I’m excited to see my maternal grandmother (I haven’t seen her in person in ten years) as our departure date draws closer I am getting more and more anxious about how people there are going to react to me (my father’s generation and the one before his are not very accepting of people who are different – gay/lesbian, different color, disabled etc –) but I have decided to look at it as an opportunity to educate people I have a feeling they think people who are different are worth less than they are and if by the time I return to South Africa I can change just one person’s mind about that I will have done my job. Do you look to teach and learn in every situation you are put in?

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If you’ve given to my cause or you can’t give now, please help me by sharing my cause with others. You can tweet about it like my friend Stan Faryna. This is the tweet he uses: @Nisha360 is a brave, smart young woman trying to make a better world for us all. Please help her do an amazing thing. http://bit.ly/hC7vOu

Stan’s very sweet for saying so, but feel free to write what reflects you best.

Thanks to all my friends out there who are helping me make my dream come true: to make a better world for all of us!