"Hello Mister"

Most of the other novice Buddhist monks at the Hman Kinn Monastery and Orphanage shied away from me the day I was there.  I was in Myanmar on another assignment but always found time to visit this monastery.  There were more than 300 orphans there.  They would all soon be novice monks.  The young monk surprised me when he walked past the others to come right to me.  "Hello, Mister," was all he said.