Saving Fish from Drowning - Heal Burma

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SUCH WAS THEIR KARMA
Lateness, I would have reminded my friends, is one of the deadly
sins on a group tour, not to be tolerated, and punishable by the
fates in any number of unforgiving ways. But this rule and warn­
ing were not established early on, and after that mistake of a lunch,
my friends spent an additional twenty minutes locating everyone so
they could board the bus.
Rupert had taken off down the road to check out the rock-climbing
possibilities, and because he was fifteen and utterly unable to discern
the difference between five minutes and fifty, not to mention between
private and public property, he had managed to climb a stone wall
and trespass into a courtyard housing six hens and a disheveled roos­
ter. Roxanne was capturing arty footage with her camcorder of
Dwight walking down a deserted road. Wendy had located some
photogenic children who belonged to the sister of the chef’s wife,