haiti
At first I wasn't going to say which country I was from. Too many psychos in the world and not wanting to give too much personal info about myself. But I am so overwhelmed right now that I have to let it all out. Last thursday an earthquake happened near my hometown Port au Prince and since then I have been unable to proceed with my life. I didn't finish my exams session and I find it difficult in the morning to get up and go to school. I am very lucky: no one died in my immediate family. My grandma injured her knee and when I spoke to her it seemed as if all the life had been sucked out of her. She is a tough person but at practically eighty years old I fear that this might be too much for her to handle. We lost a lot of good friends: people that have always been there and that you imagined would always be. I lost friends: people I went to school with, played music with, laughed and cried with. For all this reasons I am so sad. I'm also very worried. The survivors are still sleeping in the streets because the houses are no longer safe. My family is struggling to find food and water. Practically everyone I know is jobless; what will happen to them a month from now? The schools are destroyed; the hospitals too. Both my parents have to take pills everyday for various conditions due to their age. Where will they find them? I feel so useless. I don't know what to do to help them. I cannot donate money to Haiti because pretty soon I won't have much and I will have to find a job if I want to continue my studies here. According to cnn and other medias people around the world have sent help to haiti. But what will happen when the cameras are no longer pointed on us? I cannot help but wonder if all this money is going to be used for the people or is it going to go in the pockets of our corrupted government. Our country was already very poor and I like to think that this is an occasion to start over again with a clean sheet. I can only hope that things will be okay at the end even if it goes against my pessimistic nature.