My Thailand Diary

In my mind and prayers
are the people who lost loved ones on this day
when a Tsunami
killed thousands of people
from all different continents, countries, cities, villages ethnic and tribal groups
4 years ago.
May God comfort you
as you remember something so horribly painful !

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Is it really already three years ago,
a tsunami, triggered by an underground earthquake
killed hundreds and thousands of people?
It seems like yesterday.
Nature made no difference
between rich or poor,
Muslim or Christian,
Asian or Western,
child or adult.
It hit with a force the left the rest of the world spinning.
People watching on TV
were moved with compassion
millions of dollars were […]

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I wasn’t going to write a post because I didn’t WANT to remember… but, I do remember.. mainly the smell… it was awful. What happend was awful. People are still missing, peoples lives ruined, people in poverty because they lost everything, people injured, families torn apart and lives changed for ever… We know how it […]

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People along the Andaman Sea have been warned of a possible tsunami. Over the last 3 days 31 quakes have been detected on the seabed off Ranong province. Thailand. …scary… Doesn’t really make you want to go there with kids does it? But the warning system should be ok now.. AND everyone knows what […]

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Today a year ago I watched with horror what had happened in Phuket, in Thailand. The country we were living in. The BBC-pictures repeated themselves. My first reaction was to go and help. Yes, I’m a nurse and as a friend said, nurses all have a ‘helfersyndrom’. Literally translated a ‘helping syndrome’. WHATEVER, I couldn’t […]

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Under the plan, one relative of each victim – as many as 2,400 people, but 3,000 less than the official death toll and another 3,000 less than those posted as missing – and around 7,000 people injured in the disaster would be invited to stay as “guests of the government” in rooms at hotels classified […]

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An unbelievable amount of money has been given to us to pass on to Tsunami Victims in the south of Thailand. We have been able to give almost all of it away. For orphanages, Memebercare Center, etc. etc. But we still have some money left. So my husband was talking with a Thai pastor […]

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Thai authorities have issued a tsunami warning, almost 24 hours ago. A major quake hit the Nicobar Islands which is only 664 km from Phuket. Richter Scale 7.3 In todays ”Phuket Gazette” they write that the tsunami warning has been declared 90% success. Read more here.

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We love ThailandThis is a website of how diffrent christian churches and NGOs are working together in the south of Thailand, after the tsuanami. There are ways how you can donate and even how you can get involved personally. Check it out ! 

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Nachdem ich von Khau Lak, Thailand zurück kam habe ich stundenlang im Internet sachen über den Tsunmie gesucht. Ich wollte soviel wie möglich lesen. Ich las Erlebnisberichte von Menschen aus der ganzen Welt, die entstehung von Tsunamie und mehr. Hier sind einige Links die ich sehr interesant fand. Halt auf Englisch aber leicht verständlich.
Before and […]

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People have asked me if its safe to travel to places near the Andaman Sea. Ha ha!! If I were more prophetic I would tell you the dates and strength of the next earthquakes and tsunamis. But , seeing I do not have this revelation I just go by what everyone else says.
I read […]

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I was down in Phuket, Khau Lak on the the 1st of january 2005. It was devastating. I will write some more but it has been so hard to put in words what I saw. Heres is one of the first poems I wrote !
Impressions
Palm trees and the beach as we know it.
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