Myanmar

New Year greetings from Yangon!
Buddhist new year celebrations are well underway as arrive in Myanmar to 40 degrees of heat
and happy people throwing water at each other, which is what you do to celebrate Thingyan -
it reminds you that we all need to be cleansed, refreshed and renewed for the New Year.
It merits a 15 day festival, but fortunately today is New Year's Eve, so its the last day for water throwing
- good, I got soaked twice today already!
The atmosphere is different in many other ways from my last visit. I've seen many people wearing
Aung San Suu Kyii t-shirts and other political slogans. Political conversations have become almost commonplace,
there are even talks about re-introducing political science and sociology into the universities.
There are now Christians in the national parliament, even as chairs of committees -
this presents an opportunity we have been talking about.
Great time with the Yangon church and an HIV group today, off to Mandalay at day break tomorrow!
Steve