Friday, July 31, 2009

TIA: This is Africa




• Traffic control is non-existent, driving on the side walks and on the other side of the road whenever you choose.
• Carrying some rubbish on the back of a Zimmy
• Four people on a two-seater Zimmy. (Motor bike)
• Babies only strapped to their mother on the back of a moving vehicle asleep
• A fishing boat: instead of fixing the hole in the bottom of the boat they just use a bucket to remove the water.
• A woman carrying a Bucket of Water on her head while scurrying across a busy intersection… not spilling one drop
• Living with an inch deep of water on the floor of your house.
• Toddlers working on the side of the street with their parents.
• Where a 3 years old isn’t screaming their head off because they got the wrong toy, or because they didn’t get something that they wanted
• Hearing "Yovo, Yovo" while walking down the street. (meaning white person, white person)
• The President of the Country just happens to show up at a sports arena.
• A trail of goats walking on the side of the road following their master.
• Gasoline being sold by a ten year old on the side of the road from a jar
• Painting toes means the world to a little girl.
• Two grown men holding hands to show brotherly love for one another.
• Fishing in a canoe with 9 people helping with the net; only to receive a handful of fish

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