今天上班收到David打来的电话，说要我的账号，希望把同事们的再次捐款汇给我，由我来购买些东西，最好是给孩子们购买。David，说实话，当时我有暂时性的思维停顿，因为我根本就没有想到大家会把善款直接汇给我。与善款同来的还有对我的信任和给我的责任。我希望把这笔钱称为“行走的人”。因为世上本没有路，走的人多了，自然就有路了。劫后余生的人们还有太多的路要走。很感谢David的提议，所以我调整了一下援助的要旨，从大范围的帮助到以低龄儿童和低年纪学生为主的特定范围的帮助。下午的时候Vicky也要给我汇款。我赶紧告诉她稍等，让我去医院先具体了解一下情况。晚饭后，我来到省医院对各个楼层做了仔细的询问。了解到2岁以下的孩子由于多是烫伤，更多的是需要纸质护理垫、纸尿布和营养品。稍大一点的孩子则需要趣味的书籍和衣物。6楼的4个小宝宝2个睡觉了，还有2个则和家长嬉戏。他们的烫伤面积不算小，但是却没有哭泣。看着我也在笑，当然今天又送了个飞吻给我。家长们基本上没有要求很多，只是希望有营养的东西。其实家长们也没有什么了，但是更多的爱还是给了孩子。到了3楼，1个10岁的小男生很腼腆地说喜欢看武打片，我当时就想我晕菜了，难不成我还得舞弄几下，呵呵。另外一个和受伤的妈妈在一起的2岁小男孩则是病友们眼中的小英雄。病友告诉我这个宝宝是自己从幼儿园的废墟里爬出来的，而且没有受伤。小家伙不停的笑，用被子蒙脑袋和我玩。谢谢小家伙的笑容。要离开省医院的时候，一位西南财大的志愿者希望我也能一位无亲人的盲人老大爷准备些物品，我立刻答应了下来。到了中医学院的9楼，一个15岁的女孩孤独的躺着，她的姨妈往返不同地方照顾她和表弟。女孩的眼底是红红的血丝，她说她妈妈没有出来。我没有继续再问了。明天我们会把采购和继续调查共同开展。我的很多同事也会加入进来。

大爱无边，每个人都是应该感谢和被感谢的。

谢谢每个人的无私帮助

今天是星期日。有了昨天的经验，今天买东西就更加有针对性了。今天买了35件短袖，塑料杯、塑料勺、吸管、创可贴、拖鞋、牙刷、香皂、纸内衣、卫生巾、香波，还有4套婴儿的奶瓶、衣物和米粉。平日里买衣服，虽然是sale的，但是也没有太在意价格。今天却顶着烈日逛了3个服装城，只是希望能多节约一点钱买其它东西。最后居然是在高邦店买到了折扣和式样都合适的。昨日去的是省医院，今天除了婴儿用品是给昨天在省医院看到的，其余的决定送到成都中医药大学。来到7楼的骨科住院部，看到了白板上标明的缺乏的东西，很庆幸我们买了其中的相当一部分。护士长出于卫生安全的考虑，希望我留下东西由志愿者帮助分发。我知道志愿者都是在校大学生，已经很疲惫了，而且分发的经验和控制力不一定到位，所以我恳请护士长允许我和志愿者一起分发。谢谢护士长同意了我的请求。当我走进第一个病房的时候，我突然意识到今天我见到的伤员会和昨日不一样，因为我一眼就看到了一位失去一条小腿的女士。我眼里看到了一团厚厚的白色纱布。我现在实在回想不起是哪只小腿被截去。女士的长发披散着，脸上都是涂的药液。我可以分辨的是2点，第一、她的眼睑是浮肿的；第二、她的眼神是游离和空洞的。

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Today we also didn’t go to the hard-hit areas. Instead we went to a church called Ganentang (Thanksgiving Church). We took part in their afternoon program there. About 36 Christians were present for the sunday activity.  We were told that usually there are about 50 worshippers. Due to the damages from the earthquake, the pastor has temporarily rented a classroom from Huamei Training Institute. Some of the members doesn’t know the new place. During program, the pastor spend a bit of time explaining the necessity for all the people alive to pray for those who died during earthquake. Towards the end of the program, the church called every believers to donate for the dead. To our surprise, the 36 people there donated 16,930 yuan in total. We were told this is their second donation. Their first donations were used for purchasing water and food while this donation will mainly be used to buy medicines and medical instruments for the disaster hit-areas.

Below are some news reported today. I kept their original Chinese text as reference

1. 国务院今天发布公告宣布，为表达全国各族人民对四川汶川大地震遇难同胞的深切哀悼，国务院决定，2008年5月19日至21日为全国哀悼日。
The State Council of China issued a notice stating that May 19 to 21 will be designated as national mourning days for all to express their deep condolences for our countrymen who died during the Wenchuan Earthquake.

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<From Philip on May 17th>

Today we didn’t go to the disaster-hit areas as we usually did. We took part in a press conference. I got some information released by the official channel. 

There are also some touching stories by Melissa and Andrea at http://www.npr.org/blogs/chengdu/2008/05/we_found_fu_guanyu_and.html#more

1. Number of rescue team from military: 140,000 (PLA and armed forces), 71 high-ranking officer (general).
2. President Hu Jintao paid a visit to Wenchuan this afternoon (which is the hard-hit area and also the epicenter of the earthquake)
3. Aftershocks: by May 16th, there were 5210 aftershocks altogether, but it is shrinking
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Today we went to Dujiangyan, the both sides of the streets are almost all occupied by tents of different shapes and from different material. Most people are still scared to go back to their apartment buildings. There are some better tents with big Chinese character 救灾 (Disaster-Relief), mostly they are only use for injured people or people who live in a big apartment building which have collapsed fully in the strong quake.

When we came to the Dujiangyan TCM Hospital (Traditional Chinese Medicine), we were shocked by large group of people standing outside with expecting eyes. Most of them have been waiting there since the happening of Earthquake, which make a big in-patient building collapsed and buried hundreds of people and patients. Soldiers and policemen are standing in lines outside by the side of the waiting people.

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