poverty

hello.
been a while since i have written and so i thought i'd catch everyone up. I'm sitting in a room right now in a factory. This is the place where we can get online and do our work when we have some downtime. I've been asked to come to this factory and check our shipment that is going to be getting sent out soon. It's a pretty boring thing to do so far. We've mostly just sat around. We're staying in a hotel that's pretty standard. I don't know the name of this town that I'm in. I've heard it, but forgot it. I know that its on the border of the province, 400km from Shenzhen. THis is probably some of the greatest bits of poverty I've seen. Its amazing how the people here live is such low ways of life. If you were here, i'm pretty sure you'd be sickened by it. I've been here quite a while, but still am. There really is no hope for most these kids, and that's sad to me. If they don't work in a factory, the don't eat, and they die. That's the reality of it. There is zero government aid. Any buses that would get them out to a bigger city would cost half a months salary. The system has them stuck.

It's made me realize how well off I am. I go where I want to go. If I think I could or should do something, I do it. I really think America gave me that. I'm critical of the US government because I love it. When what it should do and what it does split ways, that's where the citizens step in. We have to speak up, if we don't, we lose. Here, they are dogmatic. The government is divine to them and they dare not question it. The few that do, have to do so in the shadows or a lowered voice. Its a terrible thing not to have free speech and speak your mind to a government that listens. As the economy opens, so does the governemnt. I hope in the years to come, the government here can open up more and more. I'd like to see a chinese kid travel to America, just because they want to.