Him vs Me

In 2016 Dr. Sweeting and his good friend Tom, a linguist traveled to Myanmar to record different languages spoken to promote for the university Tom works at. At the time the Rohingya Crisis was not as critical to as it today. With knowledge of just knowing about recording different languages spoken, Tom suggested visiting a refugee camp. The contrast between Tom and Dr. Sweeting was that according to Dr. Sweeting Tom took risks and because of this he didn’t like long term commitments, but Dr. Sweeting at the time was already married. But what happened in Myanmar Dr. Sweeting would never do again. In Myanmar visiting the refugee camp was a hassle as it was in an isolated area; there was only one bus to get there and while traveling to the refugee camp rain started to pour heavily. By the next day, the area was flooded and the government had announced it was a national disaster and getting out of the area was hard enough. But Dr. Sweeting would never do that again because after that he’s had two daughters and things in life change friendships.

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