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After writing 580 letters, Mortenson finally gets a response form a man, he received a check of twelve thousand dollars, he knew that with this money he was going to change Korphe children's lives, by building a public school that would allow them to have the chance to prepare for a better future.
All this stuff that Mortenson is doing for this children, tells us about his personality, he cares about others, and wants people to have the opportunity to succeed in life. Its surprising how he takes the responsibility for this town, by promising them that he was going to change it.


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Mortenson Looks For Help

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While Mortenson explored the village that he was staying in (Korphe), he saw many things that made him feel like they needed someone to speak for them, to make some changes to the community and the way of style people were living. The first thing he does is write letters to important people there and down in California, explaining how there wasn't an education program for children to learn, he described how much effort they putted into it whenever they had someone teaching them something. He wrote letter by letter since in Korphe is way far from technology. At first he didn't had any response from anyone, the first money he gets was from a group of students from a school in California, they did a fund raiser to support children in Pakistan, all the coins were pennies, and Mortenson says that here in the United States a penny might seem like no so important to anyone, " but in other countries it can move mountains."


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Mortenson's Personality Traits

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So far Mortenson seems to be the kind of person that cares about others, an example of this would be how he helped the other hikers at the K12 mountain. He is also very emotional and understands that life in Kophe is much different form the country he came from; California, here in Kophe people live their lives day by day, not knowing whats going to happen tomorrow, children don't have schools to go to. He explains how a teacher gets paid a dollar per day to teach at least a couple of days to many children in this town, they also don't have any supplies that they can use to write notes or do homework on, they use the ground and a stick to write their notes, people with a "higher" economy would use a card board and a stick with mud as ink to write in it. This issue moved Mortenson, his first thoughts are that he wants to create a school for all this kids that follow him everywhere he goes, and provide materials that can make it easier for them to write their notes.


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Three Cups Of Tea

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I chose to start reading a book by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. This is a non-fiction book based on Mortenson's journey in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The first chapter opens with Mortenson and a few others hiking the mountain K2, which is known as one of the highest peaks in this country. He describes all the obstacles they have to over came to hike this popular mountain and how it was totally a challenge for all of them; since many people had died before while trying to climb it.
He then settles in a town named Korphe that will change his way of thinking about life.


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Allie's Goodbye....

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It had been three days since she arrived and the more time she spend with Noah the more she fall in love with him. One day after they (Allie and Noah) woke up; after a night of alcohol and good dinner, while Allie starts doing the dishes someone knocks on the door. Both of them were curious about who this person could it be. When Noah opened the door he was surprised to see a woman in her 40's well dressed, it was Allie's mom, Noah asks her to come in and when Allie her that her mom was there she broke the glass she was washing.
Moments later them three sit on the living room and talk about Allie's marriage, her mom tells her to do whatever her heart tells her to, she says sorry to Noah for hiding all those letters he wrote to her for the past 14 years, " I just wanted the best for her". Her mom leaves telling Allie that she respects her decision and that no matter what she did, she loved her.
Allie then tells Noah that she has to go because she loves Lon too, and since he has been such a great gentleman with her, she couldn't do this to him. Noah begs to her asking her to not go away form him again, and that he loves her more than anyone else, but even though it was hard for both of them, she decided to leave and live Noah alone once again.


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Second Date With Allie

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The second time Allie and Noah see each other was totally different than the first one. They decide to expend lunch together then go for a ride across a lake near Noah's house in a canoe; they did this all the time when they were younger, she enjoyed the sunset while riding; and here she was once again. Hours later they had to come back to Noah's because of the hard rain that came upon them. There he started a fire and he made hot tea for both of them, but Allie insisted in getting something stronger (wine).

While back at Allie's home, Lon was worried that she hadn't called to tell him how she was doing with her "shopping." He had called four times and never found her. In this chapter Lon realizes that Allie is a very important person to her and that he really loved her, even though his work usually didn't gave him enough time to expend with her.

Back at Noah's house them two were setting close to each other near the fire talking about their old lives and how they loved each other so much and how they still do. At this date they kissed again after 14 years and Allie forgets that she is engaged and that she soon has to go back to reality.


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Dinner Together

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After a long time walking Allie decides that its time for Noah to know what she is really here for, and tells him that she is engaged, this was a big surprised to him it was like if all the dreams he had had with her were now impossible to reach, after two seconds he congratulated her and this conversation kept on going. He then invites her to stay for dinner. Since she supposed to be her to find antiques, or at least that was what she told Lon and she told her that she wasn't going to be back in a couple of days. She accepts the invitation and together they cook dinner, this time that they were expending together made her realize that she does still in love with Noah too. It was probably the reason that her parents wanted someone well known in the society, that would give a great life to their daughter; Noah could do this also, but somehow he wasn't seen at the same level as they wanted him to be.


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