The first time I was in Berlin was in 1962, the wall had gone up in 1961, and I wanted to go into East Berlin. I was traveling with 3 other girls from Brooklyn and convinced them that it would be a great adventure. So we changed our marks on the black market for East […]
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Amsterdam revisited
Hoards of young guys and girls, wearing team shirts, began singing and shouting as they marched through the streets of Amsterdam, preparing for the soccer game that evening between their team, AJAX, and Manchester United.(AJAX lost but the Dutch still celebrated). The trams stopped running due to the chaos in the streets; the bars were […]
week 4: The Monotony of Poverty
To all of my readers. there are moments here when I know it was helpful for me to come here this year.. but it has been the most difficult for me..My neighbours living in that one tiny room have screaming babies, coughing toddlers with runny noses that they wipe with the kids’s clothing and less […]
Week 4 Frustration
Since his knee surgery six weeks ago, the principal of GBHS, the government high school in Fundong, has been immobilized. He was put in a plaster cast up to his thigh and down to his ankle for 2 months… Shocked at the lack of modern techniques, I explained this operation had not been performed […]