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TimmyTimmy

IntroductionIntroduction

The following slides will tell you about lives that are noticeable The following slides will tell you about lives that are noticeable but not noticed until our teacher (Mr. Rinker) met a man on his first but not noticed until our teacher (Mr. Rinker) met a man on his first day at Myanmar. This photo essay is all about the people Mr. Rinker day at Myanmar. This photo essay is all about the people Mr. Rinker met and how their lives are different from ours. How where they met and how their lives are different from ours. How where they llive ive affects how they live. The man that I interviewed is U Tun Tun.affects how they live. The man that I interviewed is U Tun Tun.

Please Enjoy!Please Enjoy!

Owner of one tea shop named U Tun Tun removing bad leaves from a vegetable. Later the vegetables will be sold or cooked for passing customers. U Tun Tun is sitting at a table listening to our questions.

Phone Minn Cho is U Tun Tun’s only son. He attends a nearby

Burmese school. He is now 4th grade.

This is U Tun Tun’s tea shop kitchen. In it is his wife and two cooks. A cook is preparing small prawns with her fingers. Fish and squid is also prepared.

U Tun Tun is separating the cauliflower. These will be cooked later for customers.

` The picture at the side is vegetables (fresh) that is going to be sold or cooked. Beside it is Thanaka a natural cosmetic of the Burmese people.

Source of Fire

The tea shop use fire for cooking and frying. Their source of fire is wood. Wood is piled at the side of the tea shop near the kitchen. It is always abundant. They also use charcoal.

Rice

Grains of rice are being cooked in the pot with milky colored liquid. The fire is burning underneath. Beside it, fried rice is cooked in a pan. White ash is littered everywhere.

Remains of Disaster

The four log (wood) stools are made from a tree branches that broke off from a near by tree. A disaster called Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar in the year 2008. Trees fell down. The tea shop was crushed. They made these stools out of the remains.

Credits.....Credits.....

These images were photographed in Yangon, Myanmar by Ahmad Irfan and Timmy. Notes taken by Rachel. Notes Translated by Timmy Tseng. Photo essay organized by Timmy. Essay advisor is Mr. Rinker and teammates. These following images are real live images of real people.

I am thankful that you have viewed my essay. The interviewees are also happy that their lives had been noticed by international students. I am also thankful for U Tun Tun and his family for letting us have a great time at the shop even though they are not here with us.