Three Cups of Tea

...anyone?

I am so behind on updating my blog! Jeepers.

I have long since read "The Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson.

Go out. Buy it. Read it.

It was amazing. This man is amazing.

The jist of it is this American man went to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second tallest mountain. It didn't work out, he had to turn back. He lost his guide, was seriously ill and he ended up in a tiny remote village called Korphe. The village chief took Mortenson in, and in return Mortenson promised to build the village their first school, which was desperately needed.

From there, the story is full of crazy hard work, total ignorance of how to get this school built, and more heart than I ever thought could be packed into 1 book.

The book totally and completely got me when they announced the towers crashing on 9/11...while Mortenson was in Afghanistan.

Read it. Do it now.

Shauna

xox

By the way, Mortenson's project to get 1 school to Korphe has turned into the Central Asia Institute, which has since constructed more than 50 schools across rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. I'm really lookingo forward to reading his second book, Stones into Schools.