So many things happened in the past 24 hours around the world. The Canadian media and TV News Network welcomed the Canadian Olympic athletes who competed in RIO Summer Olympic Games. They were cheered, photographed, selfies everywhere, all smiles and laughter abound. It was a happy joyful scene of wonderful memories.
Then the rest of the news are the painstakingly unearthing of dead bodies and injured victims of rubble from the buildings that collapsed from sudden abrupt impact caused by 6.2 magnitude earthquake in Italy. According to the news 3 Italian towns were ruined due to the impact or intensity of this quake. An earthquake that left the people bewildered and others have no sense of what really happened because they were aslept.
The earthquake in Burma down to Indonesia is a lesser earthquake compared to what happened in rural area in Italy.
While the calamity in Louisiana, USA is not an earthquake but a flood. Pres. Obama arrived at the calamity struck area and offered sense of grief, rescue and relief to the victims of this devastating flood.
Amazing Race Canada contestants continued their long race from Canada to Havana, Cuba. They learned to dance the samba, squeezed juice from sugarcane with the help of the machine (one female contestant hurt her hand and was given first aid). They played volleyball under scorching heat of the sun at the beach, found the old sailboat in the museum owned by a Canadian sailor-navigator, found the house/building where the famous author Ernest Hemingway lived and inspired to write his books. Ernest Hemingway is the author of "The Sun Also Rises" and "The Old Man & The Sea." Lastly, the contestants learned how to make "brakes or brake pads" under the workshop's roof and walls made from galvanized iron and you wonder hot hot inside that workshop that their face and body sweat is dripping like crazy. It's not really that bad in Cuba eh? Looks like they are in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, where old Spanish buildings and vintage cars are noticeable. But no, they were actually in Havana.
Don't know yet when God and His son Jesus is coming...
It's the 24th of August and life is good no matter how hot the weather in our small town of less than 50,000 people.
