Fields of gold...
This job is always difficult and fustrating. Sometimes, in dark moments, I think that it's impossible.
Then, there are those rare and wonderful days when 'we walk in fields of gold'.
Sunday was one of them.
D and her two teenage daughters are Moslems from Xinjang province in Western China. We had helped them get their status this year. They invited S and me to a postponed Eid party in their new house in Dublin.
I think we met the entire Uighur community in Ireland, three families. We ate strange and wonderful food, drank tea and apple juice, talked and laughed in a mixture of languages for hours.
This is the new Ireland. It's a privilige and an honour to be able to build it.
posted by Carigeen at Wednesday, December 10, 2003
