Letters from America

Letter on Phones and Recession

Wednesday, 31 December 2008 01:45
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Several years ago, when my wife was living in Phnom Penh, a neighbour borrowed US$1,000 from the local loan shark to buy a mobile phone. That might seem like a lot of money for a phone – this was when the U.S. dollar was worth actually something – but he bought a very fancy and advanced phone, at a time when most phones were still used merely to call people.
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Getting Busted in America

Monday, 01 December 2008 17:15
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Oun has a brush with the law on a daytrip to the state park with two patients from her nursing home.

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Voting in America

Saturday, 01 November 2008 23:09
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Will takes a look at the current Presidential race and draws parallels to his town down-and-out in America.

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Caring in America

Wednesday, 01 October 2008 20:09
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My wife, Oun, is a full-time student at the local community college. Her dream in life, along with meeting former U.S. President Bill Clinton and seeing the Atlantic Ocean, is to become a registered nurse and spend the rest of her life helping sick people. To gain experience in the nursing field, she decided to use the three-month summer break from school to work as a caregiver at a nursing home, a facility for people who are too infirm to take care of themselves.

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Learning to Talk in America

Monday, 01 September 2008 19:49
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Will discovers that listening to his first-born’s first words is more linguistically challenging than conjugating German verbs.
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