Love is Love

Today I volunteered at this organization called the Laborotorio. It is a group completely run by volunteers and donations to help\organize activities for mentally disabled people. I had went once last week and today was my second day. I have to say it has been a profound experience. The first day I worked with them, of course I was totally out of my comfort zone. I was hesitant.. scared.. but the people didn't really care. They were sort of like children in the way that it doesnt matter who you are or if you can speak their language... they just want to spend time with you. More than 70% of communication is done through the body movements, not actually through the speech itself... and that has never been more apparent to me than when I spend time with the people at this place. Its a very unique and special place as well because the have fun activities everyday! They are taking about 8 mentally disabled people to Paris next week. I cant think of one organization that does this in the USA. First of all it is too hard, to costly, and would take so much time and patience. I am in total awe of the fact they do this for these people. Their quality of life is incredible... This one man I am particularly fond of. His name in Giangi... kind of like Georgie in English I guess.. he loves me and allll the ladies for that matter. He can't really speak. He yells a few words like ''a qui' = come here... but he definately gets his point across. He makes me sit by him all the time. If I even move a few feet away he yells and then smiles and gets all shy and hides his face... Its adorable. He reminds me of the brother of Cameron Diaz in ''There's Something About Mary''...
Giangi wheeled himself over to the CD player this morning and put in a CD... There was another girl with down syndrome and another mentally disabled man next to Giangi. I just sat next to them and observed.... They were smiling so big... they loved the music...and the one guy was holding the down syndrome girl's hands and swinging them... like they were dancing.. and she was laughing and so happy.... It was genuine love and caring coming from these people... I think sometimes people in society completely disregard people not like themselves... maybe because we are scared of things and people that are different than we are... but LOVE is love... and that has never been so clear to me as it was today....