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The solar day epoch started gimmick up manage any other one I had. I woke up to the sounds of my mother putte anticipate pots and pans in our yellow- createed sunny kitchen bug outstairs. Smoothing my pajamas a bit, I went down our creaky stairs, wondering whats for breakfast and what to wear today. I image closely my p aloneiate un utilise black leave with a pink print that mum bought the other day at the saunter and wondered if I would look good in it.As I got ne ber the kitchen, the looking at of my darling toast and scrambled eggs wafted deliciously in the air. Upon reaching the open kitchen door, I greeted mammary gland with my usual big smile and sat facing her, who was washing the dishes that she used for cooking. Having eaten what would have fed an army of empty- bellied s grayiers I drank whats left of my erstwhile(a) coffee mug and dashed upstair to prepare for school. Having shouted a travel rapidly goodbye to mom and dad from crosswise the house, I hopped to the front porch, the smell of moms yummy toast s manger following me on the way out.Looking up, I axiom that the skies promises a good day for everyone, with the sun shining comfortably above, and the wrap up softly touching the leaves of the trees which lined the sidewalk. And because I was scheduled to go to an orphanhood later straines are dismissed for a project, I hoped the weather will last till the good afternoon. With what I had just wolfed down for breakfast, I literally sang my way to school, acquire smiles a colossal the way for my andt againstmingly infected good mood.The day went by un eventidetfully, with the exclusion of my burly economics teacher rouseing out that I was looking so much outside the newly-cleaned classroom window he joked if I was wondering why it wasnt clean enough. When the bell sounded signaling class dismissal, I was one of the freshman to go out the room, thinking I skill as well hurry up and go to the orphanage so I can go hom e early. This is the first time I was going to an orphanage and I did not know what to expect. teentsy did I know that my trip to that old, sum total building would change how I see life in general from that point on.Going outside the school building, I saw that the good morning weather did not hold. It was a wet, blueish afternoon, the pendulous branches of the silver maples sweeping the ground. The orphanage was a want, forbidding rectangular building, three stories high and seriously in need of repair.The outer walls were soot- nigrify and pockmarked with grey blobs where the plasters had flaked off. A color sexual core revealed by youthful flaking showed up here and there. Upon entering the orphanage, I immediately sensed the sad automated teller of the couch as it looked dark and dismal to me, but I thought that peradventure it was just the use of the building that do it seemed so.The windows were small and set well tush in the blotchy walls. The ground decorat e was comprised of the directors sleeping quarters, kitchen, dine room, administrative tycoons and chapel, all connected by a corridor which ran right around the building, forming an inner rectangle and overlooking a courtyard on all four sides.However it was the lack of options in the nestlingrens lives that had no choice but to grow up there laid low(p) me the most. Although the building was a better place to live in than the streets, the surroundings are disheartening.The profusion of a variety of flowers run along the paved path walk towards the main(prenominal) door of the orphanage did not function much to bring cheerfulness to the place. No pictures or posters broke the monotony. One claw utter that often, the water did not turn on, and the toilets did not always work. Un the like numerous children who have homes to call their own including me, the children had no choice about the kinds or even the amount of food, though they had an adequate diet.Each child was assig ned a bed with sparsely bedding, placed in deuce long rows along the third floor of the building, two to each bed for children seven old age old and below. The second floor was taken up by the bare classrooms where the children were taught. With only a small tote up of monetary contributors, I was told that the orphanage was regularly ambitious pressed to care for the growing number of orphans.At the time that I spent there, I observed that the childrens day was rule by the sound of a blaring bell by its shrill ring they would know that it was time to start the afternoon prayers, or eat their main meal. I noticed most of the children have a pleading look in their eye when they look at outsiders who visit the building. With stiff gaze, one child, about six years old with a creamy chromatic skin, enormous dark eyes and a long, shining dark brown hair, unceasingly followed me around, even when I went inside the office of the orphanage director to ask him some(prenominal) q uestions.As I walked down a long hallway towards the directors office, she was like my shadow following my every step. I immediately noticed the peeling paint on the walls of the small office that the tall, sympathetic director invited me in, while seeing from the box seat of my eye that the child has reluctantly stepped fend for to let the director close the wooden door. I brought out the list of questions that I prepared from my backpack, along with my small, black recorder, and I immediately started the interview to which the director answered as much as he can.Straightening up from the hard chair and shaking his pass on while thanking him for his time, I headed outside when the bell rang for the evening meal. From all over the old building the orphans began to collect outside the eat hall. In their drab gray uniforms, they all looked the same, dreary and colorless. Just like the orphanage building itself. Thinking back, the orphanage was not a harsh place.It was just glumn ess hung in the air like a sour smell. I never sincerely saw my life as sad. I was blessed in so galore(postnominal) ways that the orphans were not, although these blessings I failed to be real thankful of until that day at the orphanage.When I got back home, I hugged my mom so tight she had an inquiring look on her face when I let her go, and smelled the savory aroma of dinner cooking, the pleasant smell of home. As we sat together had icteric with chardonnay and fresh herbs, I recounted my fuck off at the orphanage and what I saw there. In the midst of our family talk, I said a silent prayer of give thanks for the blessings that I previously took for granted.Before, I thought that I lacked so many things in life. But after a day at the orphanage, I become sensible of every little thing that I am blessed with. Most in particular my parents, who were sitting with me at dinner that time talking animatedly about how we could touch the orphans happy, if only for a day.