Three minutes of silence between the horns. The China that will stop.
Only yesterday were proclaimed three days of national mourning for the victims of Sichuan. Three days to think of the victims, those 2, 4, 10, 30 and those not yet dead, but also to those who have lost everything, or someone.
In one of my schools I arrived breathless at 14:18, by the way today's exam tests on crisis management and its hell with the fire alarm sounded. Do not exercise, only an effective way to call everyone together. One of the principals to tell the time, to bring figures, reminding us of that school of 800 students, where 650 have died, with 28 of the 45 professors. And with the 6500 other school buildings. They leave three minutes of silence at 14:28, hours of the earthquake. 30 seconds unreal. Friends around the city tell me that the majority of people have simply stopped. And then the one, two, dozens of air-raid alarm horn and in the background. Human silence, screaming horns. Interesting collision of concepts at a time to remember.
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Not much to say ... The days are made to remember just to be silent. I'm also talking empathetically soul choked and say if any one is superfluous. Interesting as all your posts, this description of the property china and screaming in silence.
By the way, imagine a billion and half people who stop almost all is something that indicates
A) a people fully obedient and submissive to the rules imposed
B) people on average mild and responsive to their country's problems, including deaths, and proud of their "Chineseness" is not to be confused with the concept of nationalism.
I am inclined, from what I could perceive the trip to China for the second hypothesis.
And 'in the West, however, something has gone very fading, and I do not know if it is better or worse.
Of course we have a sense of belonging has never been so blurred as in these times ... I do not know if here in the face of something like the reaction could go beyond a fleeting thought "poareti, luck seems to no me toca x I "just.
Hello Ste. but why do not you write more? Look, there are people waiting ..
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