bottom line. don't be wasteful

Day 13 (9/17)
Not much happened today, we just found a scorpion and one of the askaris killed it, small but deadly. I had class all day today, nothing too exciting. We learned more Swahili, mostly just how to write sentences and stuff.
But I just thought I should reflect a little bit on how the drought affects everyone here, and in America we don’t usually think about the resources we use and abuse. Kilimanjaro’s glacier is 90% gone and that is the main supply for most if not all of the people to the region, especially in a time of drought. By the year 2015 it will be completely gone. Thank you global warming.
Most have to walk long distances to wash their clothes, just rinse off, and get drinking water. Which they believe to be clean, but in reality livestock could be right upstream urinating in the water, someone could be washing their children’s diapers in the same stream and no one thinks about how deadly water could be. What do we have to do? Turn a facet? How long do you let it run while you brush your teeth? How long is your shower? What if you had to walk miles to get every drop of water you had…would you be so wasteful still? What would people do if there was a drought and all the rivers dried up like they have here?
Not to mention people can barely farm and all their livestock is slowly dying. In Kenya livestock equals wealth. Most Kenyans live on less than an American dollar a day
Just thought people should think about how lucky we are to live in America and be showered with resources day after day and not even give a second to what we would do if all of a sudden all of that was taken away. It’s not a right. It’s a privilege.