Often China & Japan Related.
Sitting on a hard seat train going North from Southern Anhui province, hour 3 of 10 passed, but that’s another post.
Me: “I can’t believe this is a train stop.”
Chris: “I know, is this even a village?”
Me: “There is so much trash everywhere. Right by the fields where food is growing. And the water.” (I see a structure that is half demolished.) “Oh my god…people are living in there…This isn’t even the poorest province in this country.”
Silence from Chris. 15 minutes pass.
Me: “You know what I just thought of?”
Chris: “What?”
Me: “China gives aid to other countries, like Cambodia. How can it give aid to other countries when there are people living like this?”
Chris: “I have no idea.”
Me: “What do you think some parts of Cambodia are like?”
Chris: “I don’t even want to think about it, I can’t even imagine.”
I don’t want to think about it either.