I really hope John Kerry wins the election - I had a fitful sleep all last night about it. I'll know in about an hour theoretically, assuming nothing got screwed up... Breanna and I were talking in her tent last night. she was down because of missing friends at home - similar to me. I'm starting to feel dirty/gross again, but I feel like I'm a little more accustomed to it and more able to handle it. At least it's a pretty day today, and it's a day off. What's funny is that the results will becoming in all day, as opposed to having to stay up all night to wait for them, since we're in a time zone so far ahead.

All I have to say is Kerry better win because I'm not sure the world can take 4 more years of dictatorship. I know I can and probably will get dual citizenship so I can bail out.
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Luckily we are in a very rural area, because we have been listening to the BBC world broadcast of the US elections out of Nepal or India, which is jammed in most Tibetan and Chinese cities. In order to get better reception, a bunch of us jumped onto tractors and headed down to the riverside. They got stuck in the river crossings a couple times but we finally made it. We stayed down there for several hours and Pam, one of our directors, also had a couple friends call her to give her updates on the results.

So again it's so close that they have to count every vote and Bush will probably fanangle Ohio like he already has florida and will win again. And I have conflicting accounts but supposedly every state that had a ban on gay marriage on the ballot passed it. So this is the worst day for at least the next 4 years. Fucking America. Why is everyone so ignorant and backward. I wish I were in Chicago living in my liberal, close-to-canada world. At least I'm really happy to see PA swing democrat. And I'm happy my ballot came to me and I could vote. It was interesting to see people in the group crying over the results - both because their overreaction and symbolic of the significance. It's interesting to see how disassociated we are still to that reality. I mean we heard all of that on the radio, but it has absolutely zero impact on our lives here.
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People don't really have any sense of garbage systems or not littering in Tibet. Tibet reminds me in terms of landscape of the impressionist/surrealist paintings below the special exhibit hall at the art institute. The towns and monasteries are totally reminiscent of medieval europe.