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Thing of the Day!
“People here in Zanzibar are not so tied to technology, so they are not so busy with nothing, yet, and they have time for other people. Do you ever/always feel like there are not enough hours in the day? There seems to be too many hours in the day here. If you need to go somewhere to do something, and it will take you an hour to go there and back, but you do not really know how to get there because you are new, someone local will for sure take you. I am not talking about touts who are out to make money off of you. I am talking about the local people who just want to help out and take you around to do your chores out of the goodness of their heart. It is not about finances. It is because they are kind and do not have anything to do until 15:00. Even when I do not have anything to do until 15:00, I still have 60 things that I could/should be doing. Somehow, we have it all wrong with the way we are in our busy western way of thinking, and we are forgetting about the decency of humanity in our selfishness..”
— Life in Zanzibar
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