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Old 07-13-2003, 12:54 PM
Ideal08 Ideal08 is offline
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Talking OK, I'm sure this will be a long post!

Aight yall, I'm ready to share. I don't even know where to begin.

Let me clarify something. I hate to give one sided perceptions. The population in Ethiopia is about 68 million people. 12.6 million are starving. Some say the numbers are closer to 14 million, but 12.6 is the "agreed upon" number. I just wanted to make sure people knew that I didn't see EVERYBODY and their mama out naked and skinny and starving. It's nothing like that. When you see stuff like that on TV it is staged that way. I mean, the people are staving, but no one is naked like that. They have the kids remove their clothes so that you can see the effects of the famine. People are not running around naked over there. And everyone is not poor. Well, not by Ethiopian standards. Most people would still be poor by American standards. It is a poverty unlike anything I've ever seen in America. Anyway, I wanted to give you some sort of perspective.

I really don't know where to begin. What do y'all want to know? I'm overwhelmed. There's so much to tell, and I feel like I've been talking too much. I have to clean my apartment, but I'll be procrastinating checking this thing, lol. So ask me questions, and then it'll help me with what to even begin to tell you.
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