The world remembers?
It’s September 11th here in Australia, but at home it’s only September 10th since we’re 14 hours ahead of you guys here. Even so everyone seems to be buzzing about the one-year anniversary. It’s weird, this whole trip I’ve been getting A LOT of heat for being American and people seem to really anjoy lashing out on me because of whatever opinions they have about the American government. Yet today everyone is being especially nice to me BECAUSE I’m American. Hypocrites!! Doing whatever is cool at the present moment, and of course it wouldn’t be considered cool to bash Americans on the anniversary of Sept. 11, but tomorrow everything will be back to normal and I’ll get the usual, ‘OH, you’re AMERICAN,’ with the ol’ up and down glance over when I introduce myself to someone new. Whatever. None of it is anything that I haven’t heard before, so if anyone thinks they’re being original for bashing an American, well they’re not. I’ve been accused of (yes, me personally, NOT the government) going in and interfering with too many countries, of being selfish and not giving enough to countries in need, and everything in between. Everyone who hates Americans can go and stuff it for all I care anyway. It SHOULD be abut PEOPLE and NOT governments.
I hope I don’t get any shit today. I don’t want to hear it.
I think my friend Qadir says it best when he said:
‘Yeah, I’m patriotic (whatever that means), but I guess I just harbor aversions to war, colonialism, imperialism, and karaoke.’
Anyhow, it’s my last day in Byron. I’ve decided to catch a flight tomorrow from Brisbane to Brunei. It will be Sept. 12 here then and Sept. 11 at home but I’m not worried about flying mostly because I’ll be on Royal Brunei Airlines which is a Muslim airline and I’m flying to Brunei and then Malaysia which are both Muslim countries.
I am looking forward to seeing a new place again, even if it means I’ve got to give up all the luxuries of Western civilization. It all builds character, right???
Backyard at Tinys Share House
Ben, one of the staff at the Share House
Kate (Canada), Noah (Israel), and Ek (New Zealand)
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