I am Mama Lucy

I’ve great time with my hosts here and I’m learning a lot!

Most of the things here are quite different from my home Tanzania. Very big supermarkets, huge buildings, low prices of so many things, very good roads, clean environment - just few to mention. The BIG question in my head is: what makes us (Tanzanians) NOT so committed on making our environment so clean. Does it need anything that we do not have?!?! We need to find the way :)

On the other side of a coin, I’ve noted some things which I think we’re better than here (US).

• The way the young kids can just call by names the elders and they’re not greeting the elders like our kids do. For our culture, this we can call it’s misbehaving. The way our kids respect elders, is awesome!
• The way people here (US) they treat the old people is NOT good at all. The members of the family are taking old people to live far from them. For me I think this is not good. After the whole tough job they (parents) did to their children, to raise them up now they see and consider them as a burden to them is NOT good. To me, I think the old ones need special care and love as children do.

Now I agree with what someone wise once said:  No one is perfect - even though sometimes in my country some people are thinking the US is so.  It is certainly wonderful, but nothing is perfect.

One final thing I noticed, as I visited a certain family, I realized that one child here is having toys more than what he/she needs. A room full of toys for one kid, while in our country whole schools are not even have quarter of that - it’s amazing.

Then another question clicked in my mind: What makes others having much than what they need while others are not? We are living in a same planet, then why?

Hope one will help me on this - Thank you!