Honk for Japan

My friend Mira is moving away in a couple days, so she had a bunch of her friends over to her house for a going away party. At first I thought we were just going to eat and then hang around her empty house. I was wrong. One of our friends (let's call her F) saw that people were doing something called 'Honks for Japan' People make signs, and stand out on the sidewalks. When cars drive by, they tell them what they're doing. It basically raises awareness for the earthquake in Japan. But for each car that honks, people donate one dollar, or pound, or dinar, or whatever currency they use. 


We decided to try it. 


All seven of us made our posters, of course in Arabic and English, that said, Honk For Japan! We stood out in the streets and yelled, "Zimer lel Yaban!" to all the cars that drove by. Translation: Honk for Japan. We stood out there for quite awhile. Some of the people driving by just smiled and laughed, others honked. Some even came around again and honked twice. Even after we went inside you could hear cars driving by and honking. Finally, after three hours of standing out there and having fun, we got 85 honks. 85 out of 185 cars that drove by honked for us. And who said kids couldn't make a difference.


And we learned more Arabic along the way.