Indo
Numbers continue to rise in Yogyakarta, now estimated over 3,000 people dead with thousands more injured and estimated 200,000 people homeless, among them many of our friends.
I keep thinking of the places that I love there, the art college where Dion attended (Atong, who is actually here in the US now called at 9am to inform us that it's destroyed), the German owned vegitarian restaurant Milas that helps street children through the arts with its proceeds, our former home there (roof partially collapsed), Maliboro street which is the tourist shopping hub where we saw the transexual dancers perform (saw a photo from a mall near there, a mess of twisted gurters)...
I wish that I had the resources to go there now. I would join the Red Cross if I had the ability and assist. Because I know that place and more of the language than most that might apply. But right now we're struggling enough as a family and I'm needed here. Maybe in the future I will be able to go. It's going to be a long process of rebuilding...just like the tsunami, it will be years before things are recovered.
I need to call my stepmother. Her family was from Solo, which has also been devastated.
The earthquake has triggered more activity at Mount Merapi which has already been closely watched by aid groups waiting to move it. But in a way it's good because aid groups were already prepared to help there and some evacuation areas were already ready to serve affected citizens.
Thanks to those who sent kind words and thought of us. The people that need to most support are there in Yogya and please send your energy and prayers in their direction.
I keep thinking of the places that I love there, the art college where Dion attended (Atong, who is actually here in the US now called at 9am to inform us that it's destroyed), the German owned vegitarian restaurant Milas that helps street children through the arts with its proceeds, our former home there (roof partially collapsed), Maliboro street which is the tourist shopping hub where we saw the transexual dancers perform (saw a photo from a mall near there, a mess of twisted gurters)...
I wish that I had the resources to go there now. I would join the Red Cross if I had the ability and assist. Because I know that place and more of the language than most that might apply. But right now we're struggling enough as a family and I'm needed here. Maybe in the future I will be able to go. It's going to be a long process of rebuilding...just like the tsunami, it will be years before things are recovered.
I need to call my stepmother. Her family was from Solo, which has also been devastated.
The earthquake has triggered more activity at Mount Merapi which has already been closely watched by aid groups waiting to move it. But in a way it's good because aid groups were already prepared to help there and some evacuation areas were already ready to serve affected citizens.
Thanks to those who sent kind words and thought of us. The people that need to most support are there in Yogya and please send your energy and prayers in their direction.