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When a 43-year-old from Kent heard about the Asian tsunami, he dropped everything to go to Thailand – even though he didn’t know where it was, let alone how he could help rebuild the devastated country. Ian Archer recalls his traumatic but uplifting week .

Interesting story by itself, so go ahead and read it, and forgive me for picking out this one paragraph to quote as well:

The only real irritation has been the American Christian volunteers. They go on about God all the time and give really horrible looks when I say “Jesus!” or “Christ!”. And they seem to think that they are the world’s landlords. The other day, I was doing some painting when one of them asked me how long I planned to stay. I told him that I hadn’t yet decided. “Oh, I guess you’ll be around until George Bush stops paying for the paint,” he said. At times like that, I have to bite my tongue.