In the span of a few days I found out the thesis topic I've been researching on for months is not going to happen and then I got an email in which I found out that in two weeks I'll no longer have a place to live so I'm trying to find housing in a country where I don't speak the language while being located in a country 6 time zones away without reliable internet/phone access where I also don't speak the languages.

I'm still angry with the whole situation, but I was able to put it in perspective when I started analyzing this data I've collected and finding households who literally spend 100% of their income on food. The global economic crisis combined with a series of natural disasters has made life difficult in this corner of the world. As if that weren't enough the price of electricity is going to double this month and the price of hot water will quadruple. I've been told these prices also doubled last year. How can someone from outside even begin to understand their situation?