hmm, yeah. from what i heard the chinese goverment was really open about this one. aparently foreign news crews were the first ones allowed into the disaster area. but if they werent accepting funds, over here we'd probably hear about it last... :)
anyways. i went to one of our local cafe's. they have another cafe in chengdu (capital of sichuan, the effected province) and were collecting clothes, tents, etc as well as monetary donations to be shipped over there. DHL offered to ship all the stuff over there for free. so i went to bring some of my old clothes and some money to donate. i was actually planning of helping them out, maybe with organizing, or packing, or loading or something. but when i got there, there was a line of DHL people passing down boxes (the cafe is on the second floor). inside their a third of the place (which is pretty big in the first place) was PACKED to the ceiling with stuff. the place was so crowded with people packing and moving boxes, that i just left my stuff there and left. i was just totally in the way.
anyways. over here it seems like everyone is doing SOMETHING. almost everyone has donated money. a lot of people are donating blood. quite amazing...
last night there were STILL reports of people being dug out alive.
this is all the updates i have so far...