Of course !

Of course 1/3 of the trees of the « green garden city » as Rangoon was named were down but not once the people we met or talked to in the street were mentioning one single dead. In fact I even talked with a Burmese working in the States for 30 years for about 30 minutes. Of course his English was perfect and I could well understand him. He didn’t even mention the cyclone but only confess how worry he was to see his beloved countrymen for so long under such a regime. The others would say “it is only material problem, we will fix it . The weather is nice again. Life starts again in the street. We saw the man selling ropes again and find an other one selling nails. An other one was sawing waterproof material. People cut and clear with great energy. A young one was taking a rest or a nap lying on the sidewalk in the sun