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Im going to post a random entry about tanzania where ill ramble for as long as the internet cafe will let me. Ive noticed this is the best way to express this because i dont want to talk to my fellow students about this nor write to my parents and worry them more than they already are seeing as im on the other side of the world with no cell phone and limited internet access. I guess i want to talk about living simply a popular liberal phrase to deal with our excess of material things, i just lived with a family up in these mountains near rainforest that needed to be protected to provide five million people outside of the mountains in east africa water. These people raised chickens and goats which provided them milk and eggs plus once a month meat from the chichken and once or twice a year meat from the goat that they would reuse for a few days. These people had a tin roof and batteries for their radio and then staples of food and sometimes some extra veggies or pond fish they could buy from their cash crops. Whats the solution to this horrifying inequality live simply my trip leader says, i took a bucket shower today in my homestay where ive been there for now 8 days and had close to my first breakdown i hate the way i smell and cant get rid of it without washing with water pressure, i hate eating pond fish and corn mush for days on end, i went into town to get a small pizza and a beer and use the itnenret to deal with this and it probably is the best five bucks ive ever spent, but still i realize how unreachable and to a point unknown this is to all tanzanians.andit disturbs me but i still want water pressure and unsustainable saturated fat in my diet, and computers to keep me occupied, instead of feeding everyone a bit better unsunstainably and using water, im here for less than six weeks now, and that still is a long time but i finally realized how long this was, and i think it was my summer plus two weeks and this baffled me, cuz as much as i try to not be a tourist eyt still feel like one, im realyl living here for a few months almost bucket showering and eating like thsi for asl ong as me i dont think cna be as well understood by someone who jsut hears a statistic on how many people live on less than a dollar a day, but what am i going to do when i get back and have these luxuries again? and that thought scares me