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ambiguouschild

The Great Poland Experience

Jun 01, 2006 12:43

Irving Roth: The survivor of Auschwtiz who travelled with our bus through the cattle cars, the ghettos, the death camps... on the last night together he told us "When you go home and you try to talk, don't expect people to understand. I'm looking at you guys and I can see you've all changed, but the people you're going home to don't have this ( Read more... )

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nebula_octon June 1 2006, 19:53:48 UTC

I'm an insensitive prick. Maybe my reaction would be different if I went but the only part of this post that made me sick was

"Luckily, I've already had my lovely mac make me a slideshow of everything..."

and

"I've got pictures on my mac"
j/k

I can't say I've ever seen anything that upsetting in my life. I have however seen people living in squalor. Not squalor by U.S. standards. I'm talking about people who work 16 hours a day in the hot sun in Bahrain building a new building and then using some of the building materials, mostly cinder blocks, in their off time building a shelter on site to sleep in. They do work that is dangerous and bakc breaking so that they can sleep on that site in a shelter as opposed to an alley. I walked by a shelter like this every day for months while I lived in Bahrain and actually felt bad because I was heading to my lavish 2 bedroom apartment that had a maid.

nebula_octon June 1 2006, 20:00:17 UTC

Oh yeah one other thing. Clubs suck!

ambiguouschild June 2 2006, 00:01:05 UTC

hmmm... with the mac... i have nothing to say. i love my mac and we have a lovely relationship. i don't care what you think about it =)

as for clubs... what about them? there's nothing there about a club... just curious.

nebula_octon June 2 2006, 00:16:11 UTC

"Picture that night: Polish Club. Ten Zylotes, but I didn't have to pay because the bouncer told me not to. I was one of two that stayed sober that night. Techno, mostly. With plain simple phrases being repeated "I just like to call you my bitch" over and over through your mind till you've completely lost yourself and end up in some train parading around the club screaming "DA POPE!" over and over and putting our arms in the air in imitation. "

ambiguouschild June 2 2006, 11:47:29 UTC

Oh. Right. I forgot about that.

Two points for Peter. And a bonus since I forgot what I wrote myself.

kelili June 4 2006, 05:05:46 UTC

wow! that sounds amazing... its kinda like brasil in a way... everyone keeps asking me how did you like brasil, and everything (but my room the storage area) hasnt changed a bit ... while everyone is making all these refrences as to how they dont know me anymore, though for the first 2 days or so everyone was like "i thought you would have changed more"... and for the first week i felt physically ill lonely whenever i wasnt completely occupied... after 2 hours i just wanted to go back there ( ... )