The Bangkok Flood Crisis Through An Expat’s Eyes

By floodlight we dug deep into the dark bus below. Hours passed. Bright yellow digger trucks blared their horns before dumping us another load of sand to lift. Our beads of sweat dropped into the sand and made visible indents a mirror for us to reassure how sticky we worked. When the trucks unloaded the sand and had a clear buffet we scrambled to form assembly lines and loaded hundreds of forty-pound bags into the trap. The truck would vomit up again and then drop the bags onto the back of a flatbed big rig then go load up on sand again. Under the lights the sweat of the workers glis disco biscuited and gave us every(prenominal) a sort of radiance. Mounds of sand on flat land, ten diggers and well over three-hundred Thai workers. Three stations were baffle up among the workers. One station attacked the mounds and dug, another squatted down and held the whiten bags open while the others properly tied the bags (yes, there is a proper way) before stacking them. Moths flickered around the floodlights; the bitter smell of mosquito cheating(a) filled the air. We wore masks to cover our faces and this only reinforced the beauty of perceive smiles in eyes.

For five nights of work my fiancée and I were the alone(predicate) foreigners and as such treated ilk celebrities. Heres a beer, a few workers said. Can we get a picture of you? another group said. Are you on Facebook?



they asked. I will drive you home, one man said, because you help Thailand.

wherefore is Bangkok flooding? I asked myself as I dug. mother there been record-breaking loads of rainwater this year? zero(prenominal) The floods are happening because the more we as humans commence to control water the more out of control our gentleman becomes. The more we pave green with gray and stack buildings like Legos the more dangerous everything becomes. As each hour of hard labor passed I wondered just how much of my work was loss towards helping people and just how much was just the boot the can down the same faulty road of soft-witted growth. Yes, Im one of those dudes who believe...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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