May 12, 2008
Mother’s day is a day set aside to spend time with your mother, but unfortunately for me my mother is 4000 miles from here, so I will spend mother’s day motherless. After chowing down on some greasy diner food with Tom, I set out for my day. It’s been almost a month since I bought my smart car, and she is in need of a wash.
Thanks to the smog filled air in Los Angeles, it only takes minutes for your new car to get covered in a thick layer of dirt. After 4 weeks of neglect, my car is one dirty little girl, so I decided to take her for her first bath (car wash). The looks as I drove into the car wash were priceless. I still find it funny how Americans think this car is soooo crazy! It’s like I’m flying some sort of space ship.
The workers at the carwash were soo happy to see a smart car they gave smarty the works (deluxe cleaning). It didn’t take long for them to clean this little car, the lady that cleaned the inside said “Wow so small, very easy to clean!” yeah I agree maybe they should have charged me for half a car. Read more…
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May 10, 2008
I have been waiting to write this, as I wasn’t sure how to put it and also waiting to hear from the place I stayed at in Yangon. Most of you all know what has happened in Burma (Myanmar), and I just wanted to take the time to say that my heart goes out to the Burmese people and to the friends that I have lost.
While I was in Burma 2 months ago I found a place that I called home. It was a lovely little guesthouse filled with beautiful and friendly Burmese staff. It didn’t take long for me to become close with these people. Since then I have remained in contact via email with one of the girls that works at the guesthouse. When I heard of the tragedy I immediately emailed her to see if they were all ok. While watching CNN I saw a shot of a street that looked familiar, it was the street where the guesthouse was located. As the camera panned I could see the sign of the guesthouse in a huge pile of debris, every house on the street was completely destroyed including the guesthouse.
My heart sank as these people that have been beaten down from their screwed up communist government for years and years, are now dealt another major blow. It’s like being in a hole and someone keeps kicking dirt in on you. For the last few days I have tried to put it out of my head, as I didn’t really know how to deal with it other then hopping on a plane bound for Asia. It’s a strange feeling knowing that you have friends in trouble and you can’t really do anything about it. I wasn’t expecting to hear back from her since most of the power is completely cut, but today I woke up to an email from her. She is doing fine, but her older sister will be spending mothers day without her baby.
Her English is not the best but from what I could gather from the email was during the Cyclone when all the tin roofs and piece of wood were being blow around her sisters baby was killed. It is truly amazing how strong these people are, in her email she had such confidence and seems to be handling it well. I guess for the Burmese people dealing with the human atrocities from their government on a daily basis, you might tend to look at a Cyclone in a different light. Read more…
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