This past January, I went on a school trip to the Apache Reservation in Arizona to build houses for the Apache tribe. The experience was unbelievable; so life changing! I can’t begin to describe how we felt, not to mention the such thankful souls of the Apache tribe that we got to meet.
During our hard work at one of the work sites, a little boy slowly came out of his little shack to play with us and see what was going on. He was so shy at first, but slowly began to come out of his shell as we tried to connect with him. The land we were on was rough and full of discarded objects, many of which could have been very tough on the soles! We all noticed at once that as this little boy was scurrying about his yard, climbing and getting his hands on whatever he could, he was barefoot! We figured it was due to the lack of money to buy shoes, but it must have been normal for him to go around without them; probably very callused little feet! We all became pals with this little barefoot Apache boy, giving him a yummy lunch to eat and climbing with him around his jungle gym of old, trashed items.
Because I hadn’t yet started this blog when I was in Arizona, I didn’t get a picture of just his feet. It’s a bummer I didn’t think of it, it would have been really interesting! I did manage to get a few photos of the boy in his local land, though, as well as a few other pictures of our adventure! Enjoy!
P.S. If you have any neat pictures of people who aren’t from your original land (especially their feet), it would be really interesting to compare the differences between people from different places around the world! I’m sure this little boys feet were much more roughed up and callused than the little boys in my neighborhood!
xo Ivy
There were a couple of the cutest pups at the work site!
The SPECTACULAR view, pure beauty!
soles to souls 