Lost in Shanghai ...

A lady named Xiao Yin was walking around hengshan road with her 5 year old daughter...they have spent all their savings to get a train out from Guizhou to find a new life....Because xiao yin has no prior education- her parents only taught her a few words, they are unable to find any work in shanghai. Now both mother and daughter begs for money, looking to put together 150rmb for a train ticket back home. She hopes to send her daughter to school back in the village in Guizhou before the girl turns 7.

They survive on growing rice on their small plot of land with her husband but this amount is not sufficient. After sharing her story, Xiao yin suddenly looks at her own hands, rough from farming and chores and comments that a farmer's hands are really different from someone from the city. She doesn't know she has beautiful hands, hands that have toiled to to raise her little daughter...

How many of such families or kids are there in Shanghai? When you go partying in the night or shopping in the streets in Shanghai, most likely you will have met some of these young kids or elderly reaching out for your help? Next time if you have a chance to meet one of them again, hear their stories...it makes one feel, how lucky most of us are, how different worlds many people live in...

A nice song that a friend shared:

"we walk around and around.... after getting lost and found... looking for one more chance.... all we know is... we are all in the dance"