高级英语Three-Cups-of-Tea课件.pptVIP

Three Cups of Tea —— Greg Mortenson and David O. Relin Books Greg Mortenson with children Background of the Books  The title of my book Three Cups of Tea comes from a Pakistani proverb that says when you share the first cup of tea you’re a stranger, with the second cup you are a friend, and with the third cup you become family. I picked the title in honor of Haji Ali, the Pakistani village chief who told me we would need three cups of tea if we wanted to accomplish things together. In 1993, after a failed attempt to climb K2, I became separated from the group as we descended. After walking 58 miles, I wandered into a little village called Korphe. There I meet Haji Ali, a stout, elderly man with a silver beard. I hadn’t taken a bath in 84 days, and my pants were ripped. He said, “Welcome to our village, but you do need to wash up a little, son, before you come to my house for tea.” I stayed with Haji Ali that night and returned later to spend more time in Korphe. One day Haji Ali took me behind the village, where 82 children were sitting in the dirt – 4 girls, 78 boys – and most of the kids were writing with sticks in the dirt. This was their school. A young girl came up to me and said, “Would you help us build a school?” I said, “I promise I’ll build a school for you.” Little did I know that promise would change my life forever. Preface of Chapter 12 It may seem absurd to believe that a “primitive” culture in Himalayas has anything to teach our industrialized society. But our search for a future that works keeps spiraling back to an ancient connection between ourselves and the earth, an interconnectedness that ancient cultures have never abandoned. --Helena Norberg-Hodge (Note.3) Helena is an analyst of the impact of the global economy on cultures and agriculture worldwide, a pioneer of the localization movement. She is the founder and director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) whose mi