More stores are opening. There is even a new car dealer open in the city now. The people are doing as well as they can. I see houses where the whole family lives in what was the living room, with plyboard in the windows and a simple tin stove. If you think American poor people live in sub-standard dwellings, you haven't seen anything.
War is a terrible thing.
New Year's was a trip. Lots of popping champagne. Let me explain. It is customary for the locals to shoot fireworks for New Year's. With that in mind, the powers that be decided to have a lockdown to keep troops out of harm's way.