The following is a message from FB, for those of you who do not indulge. My future niece asked me a question about Africa...i tried to answer.
Mindi:
I'm curious with as different as things might be there compared to here. How similar are things??
Me: Mindi...a lot of things here are the same...a lot of the same flowers....some birds ie dove...crows... if I tooks pics of south Texas and parts of Zambia u could not tell them apart...things here are bigger...flowers...bugs ..... most things are very different....most of the bush folks only eat one meal/day of ground corn ....they wear what clothes they can find...Blu was telling me about a big guy that bought a jean jumper that really was for a woman...must have been for a big woman :) all of the children do not go to school because they have to help raise the younger children and they have to pay to go to school ....the internet just goes away for no reason...wait...that happens in the states. ;) people take our empty water bottles and tin cans to use for containers at their homes. I gave my friends Cecilia and Mutinta a pear each yesterday that needed to be eaten...their very first.....they were "very good." People here work all day for around two US dollars and that is good money. The tax rate is 16% and gas sells by the liter. I can see the sun rise from my window and set from my front porch. The Zambian sunset is AMAZING...very red like the earth. The stars are like diamonds thrown onto jet black velvet and the moon is so bright it keeps us awake at night. I am extremely grateful and humbled by this experience and would not change a thing. Hope this answers your question. Its sort of like comparing apples to oranges. Both are good!
Mindi: Yes it does answer my question it sounds amazing I'll have to come visit!!
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