Learning from history...

This is where I take the few spare moments at the i-cafe to talk seriously. Aside from Austria, this trip has taken Kath and I through ex-communist countries (and China which is still communist). It has been a great learning experience, visiting museums, talking to guides and locals and hearing and seeing the differences, the changes, etc.

I am so happy and glad that the people of these countries can put behind them some terrible treatment and lifestyles that affected society and each person to the core. Although many of these countries face so many more difficulties and challenges now with their transitions out of communism and into free-economy, democracy and joing the EU...

It was quite an awakening when we were reading the paper the other day to catch up on foreign affairs to still see people suffering and being unfairly treated in some places of the world - Zimbabwe was the place that we were reading about... Seeing the horrors the Nazis and Socialists put people through, it's difficult to understand why Mr. Mugabi wishes to go down similar lines as the leaders of those regimes...
-Andrew