Utfordringen er klar og enkel; 

Plukk opp nærmeste bok  - (greit nok, den jeg leser for tiden lå rett ved siden av og om ikke direkte nærmest så tar jeg den! Hvem vil ha sitat fra en fototeknikk bok som lå litt nærmere?)
Åpne den på side 123
Finn femte setning.
Post de neste tre setningene.
Tag fem personer, og fortell hvem som tagget deg.

Frikke  og Geir og Eugenie har alle tagget meg  - og siden det handler om bøker er det en “meme” (det heter vist det!) som det er greit å være med på. Da kan jeg nemlig få anbefalt en god bok samtidig! Her er svaret;

Mortenson asked his countryman if he would consider doing him a favor. “I was feeling out on a limb in Korphe, operating all by myself” Mortenson says. “And I wanted these people to feel like it wasn’t just me, that there were a bunch of other Americans back home concerned about helping them”.

 Ikke helt fem setninger. Men det passer å stoppe der. Boken “Three cups of tea” av Greg Mortenson og David Oliver Relin, er fasinerende lesing. Det er Greg Mortenson’s historie. Han er i dag direktør for The Central Asia Institute, bor i Montana men tilbringer flere måneder hvert år i Pakistan og Afghanistan.

Men historien begynner i 1993. Mortenson mislykkes i sitt forsøk på å nå toppen av K2. Han ikke bare mislykkes -han er døden nær;

Exhausted and disoriented, he wandered away from his group into the most desolate reaches of northern Pakistan. Alone, without food, water, or shelter he eventually stumbled into an impoverished Pakistani village where he was nursed back to health. 
While recovering he observed the village’s 84 children sitting outdoors, scratching their lessons in the dirt with sticks.  The village was so poor that it could not afford the $1-a-day salary to hire a teacher.  When he left the village, he promised that he would return to build them a school. 

From that rash, heartfelt promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time:  Greg Mortenson’s one-man mission to counteract extremism and terrorism by building schools—especially for girls—throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. 
Mortenson had no reason to believe he could fulfill his promise. In an early effort to raise money he wrote letters to 580 celebrities, businessmen, and other prominent Americans.  His only reply was a $100 check from NBC’s Tom Brokaw.  Selling everything he owned, he still only raised $2,000.  But his luck began to change when a group of elementary school children in River Falls state Wisconsin, donated $623 in pennies, thereby inspiring adults to take his cause more seriously. Twelve years later he’s built fifty-five schools.
Mortenson and award-winning journalist David Oliver Relin have written a spellbinding account of his incredible accomplishments in a region where Americans are feared and hated. In pursuit of his goal, Mortenson has survived an armed kidnapping, issued by enraged mullahs, repeated death threats, and wrenching separations from his wife and children. Yet his success speaks for itself.  This year the schools will educate 24,000 children. 

Det er inspirerende lesing. Det er historien om en mann som har satt spor etter seg. Som ble hjulpet og som holdt sitt løfte om å gi noe tilbake. Det er en historie om møte med andre kulturer, om utfordringer, om hindringer, om ydmykhet - og om å ikke gi opp håpet.  Anbefales!

Jeg tagger Alter Ego, Miriam, Rigmor og  Frøken Skavland (som har egen bok mann!)

[og jeg kan telle og vet det er fire ]