Thursday, August 16, 2007
Jambo
The other day I went for a 'jambo' (stroll/walk/promenade) through a poor part of town (actually the poorest part of town) and came across around 8-10 kids between 5 and 12 years old. I decided to get a workout by having them climb on my back and do squats, lunges, and pushups. Then I lifted them up/threw them in the air one at a time. It was good and tiring - a fun way to work out and they had a great time. A couple kids even gave me a back massage at the end of it, I didn't even have to ask. On my way back home, i saw a room full of computers with kids playing the computer game "Counter-Strike" with each other on a local network, and then some more playing XBox and Playstation! I was so surprised that on the poorest street on the island - shacks barely standing with corrugated tin roofs and walls, no doors, kids running around without shoes, dehydrated and hungry, and here is a room full of top-of-the-line Dells running Counter-Strike. The kids were pretty good at it too, from what it looked like. The store owner said he kept it open every night until 2am except Sundays, it's open until 12.
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