Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Little Daughter By Zoya Phan

Reading the book "Little Daughter" written by a young Burmese (Karen) writer. The writer Zoya Phan gives a real  insight into what it was like growing up in Burma as part of the Karen ethnic group.

Tonight I read something that keeps rolling around in my mind. When she was growing up Zoya's family of a father, mother 2 brothers and a sister would only have 1 or maybe 2 meals of meat a month. Here in Canada I eat 2 or 3 meals a day that include meat and all they had was 1 or 2 meals a month! I just can't get my head around that, living in that kind of poverty is something I can never truly understand.

I must try to learn and understand as much as I can.