ahka | World News from last week

It is easy to avoid some world news and difficult to avoid others. Truly, I am so busy with work, family, friends and theatre + other things; I hardly have time to eat and sleep, let alone follow the news. I listen to the radio (Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) or WCCO) when I drive and of course, FaceBook and web pages that lead to my e-mails also give me glimpses of what’s going on outside my “little” world.

So, starting last Friday, I did not really care about the royal wedding of prince William and Kate. I did not even know that it was happening until I got into my car, turned the radio on and heard everything that correspondents had to tell us about the wedding.

In the evening, at least 3 friends told me over the phone that they are watching the wedding, so I decided to take a pick at it too for a second. I am actually glad that I did. Interesting and sometimes ridiculous hats on the heads of every single woman amused me. It was also cool to see London; I love London and have very good memories from all of the trips that I made.

On Saturday and Sunday they continued talking about the wedding. On Sunday night the news have changed.

I was on FaceBook before going to bed and suddenly all my friends started posting about Osama’s death. Well, it was the news that truly had nor good nor bad impact on me. Well, I was glad that one goal of our government has been reached but I did not and do not believe that his death would make any difference in the world. He already did his dirty job and created a lot of followers. I wish he would have been caught before he could do the horrific deeds that he did, but we know that could’ve should’ve does not count.

Again, I was not trying to follow any news about this but radio and internet were feeding me for free almost against my will. So, one interesting element of the news was that both Hitler and Osama both were pronounced dead on May 1^st. Only Hitler was pronounced dead on May 1^st,1945 and Osama on May 1^st, 2011. Both were equally evil characters. There are no accidents in this world.