Ryan.
Meet Ryan. Ryan is a 6-year-old Ni-Vanuatu kid and he lives in the bush. Ryan made my day yesterday when he gave me a high five. Yesterday Ryan joined the youth for a youth gathering at the Bahá'í center. We always start with prayers to bring unity and harmony amongst us. He said a prayer by heart. And kept going. Kept going. Kept going. At some point I realized it wasn't one prayer, but he was saying ALL the prayers he knew by heart. And he kept going, even though someone kindly tried to hint that it was ok if he just said one. SUCH a sweetheart. Today we got to eat some cake. He'd sit next to me and said: "Yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum…. yum!" Ryan also hi-jacked a Skype call I was having with a friend. Thrice. I also have video material of him performing his special string band number. No instruments, but who needs them when you can sing and dance. In o...