Bye-Bye, Buddha

Beautiful. This word doesn't do these wonders of Burma justice, but it certainly is true. Here, hot air balloons drift lazily in the haze high above a large pagoda, or stupa, and its adjacent temple in Burma.

Housing the country's largest religion, Theravada Buddhism, these holy pyramids often enshrine ancient relics and, common in all the stepped stupas, a monolithic statue of the Enlightened One himself, a smile on his face, seeming to imply his infinite understanding of the universe - or the fact that you passed gas, and tried to get away with it.

*sniff* Oh! What the-! Goddamned tourists...

Random fact: $1 USD = 6.45790 MMK (Burma's currency is the kyat)
My classes this semester:

History 144 The Second World War
History 452 Foreign Relations, History of FR
History 103 History of Madness, Mad Mental Psychology
History 446 America Between the Wars
Comm 462 Feature Writing
French 003