the 14th of april of 1999
i just finished taking my chemistry exam. oh no. the end of the world as i know it? problem is i wont know for probably a week until i get my exam back. live for today i guess. really nothing i want to say about it. scary thing is i still have the comprehensive final to look forward to.

i attended a program yesterday with a speaker sponsored by amnesty international. i regretfully cannot remember his name, its in the newspaper today though so i can still look it up. he is a tibetan buddhist monk who was very wrongfully imprisoned for thirty years. when china decided that they wanted to claim tibet was theirs, and wanted all the tibetans to accept that (and denounce his holiness, the dalai lama), a lot of tibetans refused. they were imprisoned and tortured. this is not something that happened long ago either. it began in 1949 and is still happening today.

the things that happened to this man are unimaginable, cruel, inhumane, unbelievable. and that he, and thousands of others, never denounced their faith, their hearts. to have this much strength is a lesson to us all.

to find out more about this, and to do something, see these websites:
students for a free tibet
free tibet campaign home page
free tibet !
tibetan government in exile's official web site


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