Thank you for this time Dawei
This week in Dawei have been a constant adventure with my friend Yellow! She has picked me up with her motorbike every morning outside my hostel and then headed out on different adventures together - visiting villages, her family, beaches, pagodas! It's been a really good to spend time together as well - both being activists in our own countries we can really relate but also learn a lot from each other since we come from very different places! I have to say that before I got to know her, I knew embarrassingly little about Burma and its political situation, now I can see their complex situation with new eyes. Lets hope things will turn around to the better now with the new election - even though Aung San Suu Kyi can't be president because of the constitution, she is still a part of the government!
Either way, I have to say once again how much I admire Yellow and her family for fighting against the government and the big companies trying to take over their land. And Yellow who travel all around Burma with her organization to inform people about human rights and to inspire more people to fight against the temptation of money (for example, there are so many people demonstrating for the DSEZ project who really don't support them at all, but were promised 5000 kyat per day if they did it..) and instead stand up for their rights as humans and civilians of this country!
Some pictures from random days together, here first some pictures from Yellow's home!
Me, Yellow, her lovely sisters and their father! Just beautiful people, what souls they and the rest of this family has!
A fishing village about an hour from Dawei!
This was the day of graduation so every village were celebrating that their 'children' would now move on to university!
Yellow my little angel :) I owe you my wonderful experiences of Dawei, wouldn't have been possible without you, and I also made a really good friend :) Bless you!
