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Ni de aqui ni de allá | Not from here nor from there | By Yeeliberto

Christmas Famine

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In this season, people celebrate by eating and drinking with their families. Some of the care about money by giving food or clothes to the poor such as the salvation army that they have people outside the stores to collect money. Other people just do not care.

Some people in Africa do not even have food for days while here in the USA, people throw away food like the air they breath. In the Mr. Pita fast food chain, I saw one of the workers throw a Pita roll because a person told him that he had put the wrong dressing, only because of the dressing.

And water is another thing. In Africa, Mexico and southwest of the USA (like Arizona), it is a crime to waste water such as having great extensions of grass like here in Michigan; while in Michigan they wash their cars with the hose (I have seen many people) when in Mexico is done with buckets.

Africa is other thing; I do not know a lot but I just know that they are suffering by famine.



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In this picture, the boy is drinking from the cow... or maybe eating



And in this picture he is “taking a shower”, because the body needs a way to hydrate.


There has been many food that in the USA is considered garbage such as Menudo (a Mexican food) that has the meat of the belly of the cow, or another Mexican food, Sopa de Lengua (tongue soup), again, from cow. Like one friend of my mother told to me that one time her mother made tongue soup, and her son-in-law loved it, my mother's friend made it one week later and when her husband came back, he saw the tongue boiling in the soup and he said that she was crazy, but she made him eat and he did not complain... What an irony.

Weird year, weird picturesSome people are just ungrateful

Comments

Martin Ouellette 18. December 2007, 23:01

Good post. :smile:
And a shocking picture.................

yeeliberto 18. December 2007, 23:36

I feel like I do not need anymore materials things. And I feel more human when seeing those pictures.

Keilarina 21. December 2007, 21:16

im shocking :frown: are these photos real or photo manipulations ?:frown:

Angeliki 23. December 2007, 04:52

Isn't amazing that when we are looking in magazines or when we do buy a pocket book for 500USD there is so much that we can do with that 500 dollars?A village can have immunization for three years for all the new born babies. Oh the humanity of ours, so well sleeping . Thank you for reminding me what Xmas it is all about! Thks,
Angeliki

Angeliki 23. December 2007, 04:57

Happy Holidays to you and to your family!
I feel lucky to be able to read posts like yours!
You are a very young person with a very valuable gift! You do think!
Stay well,
Angeliki

yeeliberto 26. December 2007, 03:18

Thanks, I am out of the country and I do not have permanent access. Thanks for you comments and happy holidays or merry Christmas.
çKeilarina: thephotos are real. There are worse pictures, but I decided to put this one.

Angeliki 29. December 2007, 04:49

I hope you are having a great time!! R U in Mexico??

I haven't been there for almost 18 years now! I hope if you are there to take some pictures and post them!! :smile:

Happy New Year too! :smile:

Keilarina 29. December 2007, 20:24

peace on earth in 2008...

to You and Your Family:)

yeeliberto 30. December 2007, 20:04

Right now I am in Mexico, today I}m departing to the USA again. I will post some weird pictures and things that happened, right now I{m in a friends house and I do not have enough time. See ya.

Angeliki 30. December 2007, 23:40

have a safe trip,
we'll love to see the pictures!! :smile:

Anonymous 26. February 2008, 23:09

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Mr. Smiley! ^^ 8. July 2009, 01:20

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