Changes

A lot has been going on here in Myanmar. Tomorrow, Hillary Clinton will arrive and even here in School someone mentioned it. She's another high-profile person in a line-up of well-known/important people to visit the country.

Another, smaller, change but with, for us, more direct potential is that the first ATM's have been installed in Yangon. Ok, you can't do much with them yet except withdraw money from an account with the particular bank that has that ATM (the few private banks are all installing ATMs). But the planning is that somewhere next year the ATM's give access to any bank account (with a Myanmar bank). Hopefully the service will be extended to a 'normal' ATM service so tourists don't have to worry about bringing enough dollars anymore. And i'd love to be able to deposit my money in a bank account and be able to withdraw when necessary. Even better, pay-on-the-go. Every weekend we go shopping and every weekend we stand at the counter wondering whether we have enough kyats. Even though you have a whole packet of them in your purse.

We can also access youtube now which is wonderful. Not that the internet connection is usually fast enough for it to be of any real use but hey, sometimes....

And pictures of a certain lady are now seen even on the front page of the newspaper. And her face is plastered all over town since posters of her are now being sold openly next to posters of her father.

They may be small changes but changes none the less.