Katrina

If you're wondering what the Vietnamese think about Katrina and its aftermath, I think it's similar to what the rest of the world thinks. My tutor says news reports have asked how this could happen in a rich country like America. A friend wonders how the government could have left people stranded for so long, and one of my students says people now know America is made up of two classes, rich and poor.

An Irish friend wrote this:

"I've been following the news about the disaster in New Orleans, one of the girls in my workplace was on honeymoon there at the time. She and her husband, James were queuing for a bus for four hours before they were told to turn back. They went back to their hotel which had at this point been half taken over by a gang who were planning on taking over the whole place. There was five of them hold up in a one bed hotel room for four days, before the staff helped them get out. They were warned away from the Superdome, at all costs they were told to stay away from there. They found two English guys with a car and they drove to Houston.
They flew to Chicago and then on home. Carol (the girl from work) is a skinny little thing, she is totally tramatised from the whole experience and has lost a stone weight."