Kevin Gonzalez - Week 14 journal [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

11/11/13 i wasn't here

11/12/13
Typhoon-ravaged Philippine islands faced a huge relief effort Monday as bodies lay in the streets and survivors beg for food, water and medicine.Police guarded stores to prevent people from taking TVs and treadmills in Tacloban, the worst-hit city.Philippines officials said that Friday's typhoon may have killed 10,000 or more people but with the slow pace of recovery the official death toll remained well below that.

11/13/13
Marijuana is moving on "greased tracks" toward legalization, according to the advocacy group that's been riding the train for more than 40 years.The reason is a stark shift in public opinion, said Allen St. Pierre, executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. On Tuesday, Portland, Maine, followed Washington and Colorado's lead and legalized recreational use of the drug, while the Michigan cities of Lansing, Jackson and Ferndale resoundingly voted to let people older than 21 possess an ounce of the green stuff on private property.

11/14/13 wasnt here

11/15/13
As cadaver crews collected more bodies off of streets and from underneath rubble in the Philippines Friday, the national disaster agency raised the death toll in the wake Typhoon Haiyan to 3,621.The number of those injured stood at 12,165, state news agency PNA reported, after the storm ripped up a group of the nation's islands with winds more than three times stronger than those of Hurricane Katrina. At least 1,140 individuals are officially missing.