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Tuesday 01 May 2007
"The doctor confirmed that I was pregnant. I was in shock. I wasn't sure what to do or what to say."
Wednesday 02 May 2007
"I had overcome a lot since my car accident. I was determined to get out of the wheelchair and do something with my life."
Friday 04 May 2007
"I realised that seemingly trivial things that adults say to children can be very important and matter a great deal to a young person. I never forgot that day. "
Monday 07 May 2007
"We were like a band of brothers and I was in the middle of them. At last I belonged."
Tuesday 08 May 2007
"I remembered the man for his kindness. He had turned a sad day into a happy one. We no longer felt like outsiders or foreigners"
Wednesday 09 May 2007
"I checked his pulse and he had died... It changed my perception of what I was doing with my life."
Thursday 10 May 2007
"Up until that time it was almost a mark of distinction to own a wireless. I just feel it was the beginning of something."
Friday 11 May 2007
"I must have checked my email about twenty times that night, hoping for a reply."
Monday 14 May 2007
"I had a flashback to the last time I had been underwater, 50 years ago, when I had fallen out of a boat. Something in my life had changed... it had taken 50 years but it had changed in 5 minutes."
Tuesday 15 May 2007
"I had never seen the music before, which was very, very difficult. I was quite terrified."
Wednesday 16 May 2007
"We now had 250 children to take care of. This disaster had happened to them and to their country. I would have to stand by them and to be there for them."
Thursday 17 May 2007
"I knew that he was going to tell me I had cancer but I hadn't said anything to my wife."
Friday 18 May 2007
"Even though I had embarrassed myself that day was a turning point in my life. I was so happy."
Monday 21 May 2007
"That night gave me so much confidence in myself. It was so significant in my life. It gave me the power to ask a girl out."
Tuesday 22 May 2007
"I wanted to tell the manager of Wellworths what was about to happen to him. "
Wednesday 23 May 2007
"That's when we realised we had no money for the train home. We spent all the money on ice cream!"
Thursday 24 May 2007
"I said to myself, there he goes, holder of the Victoria Cross and four of my mother's sodas."
Friday 25 May 2007
"It made me more determined that there was no way I was going to have anything to do with it."
Monday 28 May 2007
"I felt so grateful that I was born here but I go back to that memory of that one example of the profound poverty of 2 billion people on this planet."
Tuesday 29 May 2007
"It just turned everything upside-down to be honest...I just had to start thinking a bit more..."
Wednesday 30 May 2007
"I came back with a great uplifted spirit and I thought yes I'm going to give this a try... anything that happens to us can be an opportunity"
Thursday 31 May 2007
"At school they told me: you'll never be good for anything but sweeping the streets..."
