Someone was watching

I wanted to write about our great time on sunny Hainan beaches, but then, as I believe you know, there was a an earthquake disaster in China, so I felt I should've written about people sentiments here in Asia.

First of all, we are ok, we are lucky, it seems that someone was watching over us - we changed our departure date to Sichuan province, (where the earthquake happened), to June 2nd - so, when the land was shaking we were far enough, and on a safe ground. When I wrote on my Facebook profile, that "Boris survived an earthquake", I referred to the fact that we were supposed to be in Chengdu, Sichuan capital, on the day of the earthquake - but couple of days ago we felt we would go there in June, so Ada rebooked the trip.

So lucky!

I remembered again how my mom would tell me when I was little, that I was born under lucky star.

All of this means that we cancelled our trip to Sichuan, so we will not do Yangtze cruise, and we won't see all the wonders there - question is when will normal life return to this chinese western hinterland.

Since we arrived to Korea, we've felt average people concerns about this disaster. Our Korean friends, Jean and Jake, who waited for us on Incheon airport hugged us so hard when they saw us - and you might now that in asian cultures people usually don't hug each other. It is all over written in newspapers, and it's been broadcasted on many TV channels - our hosts in Blue House explained how the help is already being organized.

I believe it is similar in 'our' western world, people responded quickly to all of this - it is all different for me now, when looking from this angle, while being here.

I just hope that at least it will stop raining for people there.

Tomorrow we are going to DMZ (Demilitirized Zone) - another example of our insanity as human race - we'll go to "Panmunjom", Joint Security Area - where unlike any other place, the tension between 2 nations (or just 1, same nation) are shown, but also where you can realize the importance of the liberty and the peace.