On a serious note

20th August

We went to the beach today again, yes go on, call us beach bums.
It's a quiet beach with not many people, so spending time there is precious to us as we travel around so much.
There are so many old ladies and old men with plastic legs, hopping around on their cruches on the beach, in the sand, in the heat. You can see how weak they are and all they depend on are tourists to buy something from them. At the moment i'm reading a book given to me by Megan whom I met in Thailand, called "Mao's last dancer". It's about a little boy and his family in the early 60s in China. The 6th son of the family tells his story about his life and being brought up in terrible poverty. There was never enough food for all members of the family. And the parents and the older brothers worked so hard every day to get enough money to buy food.
So while reading this book i see these old people hopping the beach, hoping to sell enough. One thing i got out of this trip so far is, i appreciate life so much more now. I know it happens everywhere, not just where we've been on our trip. But at home it was like i was always too busy to think about it too much. Here, you see it all the time, everywhere...and i've got a lot of time to think now. It's heartbraking. I just wanted to let all my readers know, that even though we might have it tough sometimes, we should appreciate life more and tell yourself that you could have had it worse. We know that we cannot solve all the problems of the world but we are trying to give little, even if it is on the beach, and if only buying peanuts, or newspapers, or whatever else they sell.

Angela & David