My weekend trip to Niagara on the lake Ontario.

Last Saturday, I went to Niagara Fall for the weekend trip. We gathered near the Galasino Building around 8:30 in the morning. We started one and half-hour driving to Niagara and we arrived at the Niagara park at noontime. Then we went into the stores. We visited a handicraft store which had handicrafts from around the world such as Africa, Asia, Canada and etc. The prices were so high that I could not afford to buy them. There were also lots of handicrafts, gifts and outfits stores along the street. I saw there so many Chinese people and I thought I was in China. We wandered on the street and took pictures with the fall until eleven and thirty o’clock, then I was very hungry. But the fall was so fascinated to me that I could control my hunger (actually I had only little money~~~!)Then some of my Chinese friends and I did the Maid of the Mist boat trip. We were very surprised by the little time it took to get on the MAID OF THE MIST boat. The line was very long so I thought that it would take us hours to board the boat. However, we were pleased to see the fall and it was really not irritating to walk the line and wait. It was an amazing experience!
The boat took us right underneath the fall. Getting so close to the fall was fantastic! But I felt like I was in the rain and it was like taking a shower all over again because of the water from the fall. I got wet as I was trying to take the pictures close to the fall. But I was really happy because I had been to one of the wonders of the world's nature..I had also been to both sides of America and Canada.After that, we all had to gather at the park at 1:00p.m so we went back. On the way, we went shopping at a plaza and we arrived at the Nazareth in the evening. Of course, I was really pleased to get such a great experience tripping to Niagara Fall for the first time of my life in USA. Thank you God for everything You have done to me!!!

Poor health care system plagues Myanmar.

Myanmar has also one of the world's worst health care systems, with tens of thousands dying each year from malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, dysentery, diarrhea and a litany of other illnesses. The situation inside Myanmar is complex and health data are often unreliable or difficult to gather, especially from restive areas of the country dominated by ethnic minorities who have been at civil war for decades. Most of Myanmar's health care is funded by international sources, with the government spending only about 3 percent on health annually, compared with 40 percent on the military. An estimated 90 percent of Burmese live on just $1 a day and the United Nations ranks the resource-rich country among the 20 poorest in the world following decades of mismanagement under military dictatorship. So People who have no money go to a clinic and they cannot get good health care.

In rural Myanmar - where 70 percent of the country's 58 million people live - most villages lack basic health care. Patients travel hours - in some hilly regions nearly an entire day - to reach hospitals or clinics located only in towns. Due to the remoteness between their villages and towns, patients come to the hospital only when they cannot stand their deteriorating health conditions. While some arrive at the hospital in time, some arrive too late.

Due to a lack of health care services, there are normally just two options for many rural people: rely on local traditional remedies or seek treatments from untrained health workers. Some people rely on quack doctors, though they know that is not a good choice. It's because they need not pay medical fees immediately; they can pay later after they reap their harvest or crops. In an effort to fill the gap, a dozen health international NGOs(non-government organizations)  are providing free medical care, but the demand far outstrips their capacity and it is not enough to get health care for all the rural  people.In Myanmar rural areas, communication is unreliable, while transportation is uncomfortable. There is no medical journal or internet access for the rural people to learn the latest medical science there. Medical Students tend to come from wealthy urban families and are unwilling to serve in poor, rural areas. Most health workers prefer working in cities where private hospitals and clinics pay higher salaries. While the government needs to give incentives to the health workers so they want to go and work in the poor rural areas, at the same time, the government needs to spend more on the overall health sector.

For above these facts, there are so many things to be changed about health care system in Myanmar. Because of the political situation of Myanmar, we can’t do anything we want and no rights even though other countries like US, Korea…want to help and provide Myanmar for health services. Perhaps, I could change all the systems (everything) in Myanmar if I became a president some day.