Culture

Learning about culture this week definitely made me think about how all over the world people communicate differently and live differently. It's not something that I would normally think about or even realize unless I vacationed there. I know a lot of Chinese culture and things like that because my dad's been flying there for business since before I was born, so things like that I was familiar with.

Our language barriers I feel will always separate the different countries around the world, just becuase we all speak different languages. That I don't think will ever change as long as we're alive. When you go to a foreign country and no one speaks english, it's hard to find your way around especially fi you don't speak their native language too. Also, the hand gestures were pretty funny, I thought. They are totally different anywhere you go. It's just so weird for me to think that people live completely differently than we do, and we only live the way that we do because the U.S. is very industrialized and many other countries are not.

I found the woman that came to talk to us about teaching in Kenya very interesting. I thought she had a great story to tell, i mean she went to Kenya! Of all the places she could have chosen she chose the one place that would make her go out of her comfort zone completely. I don't think I could ever do that because I am not a very outdoorsy person, I could not live without a real toilet, no shower, no power(for electronics), and I defintely could not live with all of the bugs! I thought it was very gutsy of her to be able to make that decision and follow thru with it.