socialism

To my dear readers,
To those who know me well you know that i am a ranter, thats why alyssa and bethany wont ask me questions about the vietnam war. But since i ve been gone theres been alot of talk from back home about socialism so im going to shine some light on my findings meow (here) Since i am living in one of the last socialist countries. One big thing i noticed was when i was in stockholm a few weeks ago, when you walk around you see1. H&M´s across the street from each other 2. Street muscians 3. Lots of taxi´s. This sounds like a normal big city in the states except there is no homeless on the streets at all. Its not that they moved them all out its simple there are none. Back home we live in constant fear of if we will have enough money and insurance. I wont lie im scared of getting hurt and needing sugery or something. Here theres no fear of that. Now im not saying its perfect because no government is but its nice to see people taken care of whether they have alot of money or not. Theres a feeling of peace of mind here that is wonderful. Now to bring this to a point not just a long political rant for my own amusement. I think as christians this idea of we all take care of each other is wonderful. Something to look at is the hutterites. They share everything they have, if someone needs a hammer someone has it and they let them use it because it belongs to everyone. They kinda remind me of the people in the village with out the whole scary monsters thing going for um. Please remember this is all opinion, not hard stone cold fact.
blessings,
Samuel j. Miller

Because i really dont know

well hello everybody. March is upon us in fine style here in sweden, the past few days have been sunny and in the 40´s and we can even see patches of ground! very exciting i know. Well two weeks ago we had break and my girlfriend kristen came to visit me! It was really nice to see her again and have her meet the friends ive made here, it was a good time. We went to stockholm the weekend before last, it was really nice to be in actualy city again with things open past 8 hahaha. We just kinda walk around and enjoyed ourselves. I drove kristen to the airport early monday morning, i was rather heart broken to see her go but i know i will see her again in 4 months or so. But its also made me miss home and make me look at what we are doing here. The past few days ive felt rather put off. I guess i feel like i should be doing more here, i read other blog posts from the other groups and they all seem to be doing alot all the time. We just are shifted from class to class and for the most part i feel like we are more of a fill in. After school we just go home, we dont have a youth center to help out with or touter anyone we have to keep ourselves occupied. This all perspective and i may just be alittle homesick since kristen left but i just am going to look around here for something more i can do.
-Samuel j Miller