I look to my left and there is Adrienne, from Iowa and then to my right is Suz, from Australia. I, myself am from Maryland. The three of us have completely different stories. But, nonetheless, here we are, three white girls in China, holding orphans and laughing as the one I am trying to feed spits out the food I just tried to give her. We've been friends since the first times we met each other. Three single, white, college level girls all need to stick together, and that's exactly what we've done.
Adrienne is the first of us to leave. She left this morning to go home and start life as a college freshman. She is the first to go back to "real life." I am next.