Hla turns around and pushes herself out of the crowd to go for a walk, relaxing a bit. Playing with some of the kids on her way, she, like many others, looks forward to the normal Yangon again. The familiar Yangon with teashops on every street corner surrounded by the smell from local curries and rice, umbrellas to once again cover for the sun, and the smell of chewed betelnut in the air and red stains in the street. Walking past the gigantic red old brickbuilding called The Secretary, she looks through the closed fence. This building was the central administrative spot for the British when they ruled Myanmar, at the time called Burma, until they left the country in 1948. Afterward, it was used by the Burmese government and military junta who took power in 1962 (Aung-Thwin & Aung-Thwin, 2013). The building was later used until 2005, when the Burmese government chose to move the capital city to a new town that they built in just a few months, Naypyidaw. Naypyidaw is now the administrative capital, even though most of the tourist that visit Myanmar still thinks of Yangon as the capital. The Secretary was left without any maintenance, as it decays the building keeps a whole block in the middle of the city unused. Hla has only been inside the fence a few times during the one day of the year when they open it for a photo exhibition. The building is much older than she is, and she does not talk about the history of this place. This is the building where General Aung San was shot in 1947 after he had been an essential contributor to the negotiation with England to become an independent country. He was part of building the modern military and wished for Myanmar to become a democracy. General, or as he is called locally; Bogyoke Aung San is by many looked upon as “the father” and is highly respected throughout the country. His daughter, Aung San Suu Kyi, has continued her father’s work, and after a long and still ongoing fight for democracy, she became the state counselor. With her two British-born sons from her time studying in England, she is not allowed to receive the title “President.” Aunt, or Daw, Suu Kyi returned Myanmar in 1988, during the great student rebellion. She did not know at the time that this would lead to, amongst others, a total of 15 years in house arrest. The Nobel Peace Prize she received in 1991 was another recognition she could not anticipate. Daw Suu Kyi gained the position she today holds alongside her political party NLD (National League for Democracy) (Aung-Thwin & Aung-Thwin, 2013; Rønneberg, 2015). However, all of this was before Hla was born, and the politics and government of Myanmar she rarely talks about. Hla´s work puts her in a position where she gets to develop her English skills and is more exposed to debates and news from outside her country. She works at a tech-hub and has 38