Legacy Letter March 2014

>This is what I ate for lunch at the school one day last week. Looks good huh? It was! Now I suppose […]

For eight months now the ah-janns (teachers) and students have been working hard at revamping the “Teacher’s Garden”. The beautifully transformed garden located at the back of Legacy school grounds has been a joy to all of us here that walk it everyday. The pictures below are taken in succession as we worked. Below is a pastel drawing I drew of what we thought the garden should look like when it was completed.

Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and once one of the most famous political prisoners in modern history, is now traveling the world on behalf of the government and people of her native Burma (Myanmar). She had been under house arrest for 15 of the last 21 years. Now her political party, called the National League for Democracy, is part of the Myanmar government and recently won 41 of the 43 vacant seats in the lower house of the Myanmar parliament. The military backed party still controls most of parliament, but her election and the inclusion of the NLD in government signals changes to come…