"I'd Like To Go To Africa"

Earlier in my trip I read a book entitled "Foreign to Familiar" by Sarah A. Lanier. I read it in two days, so it is a quick read. It is written by a woman who is involved with YWAM and has done extensive studies on how different cultures relate with one another. She classifies them in two different categories: Warm and Cold climate cultures. Southern CA is a warm climate culture, though not as warm as Africa or Latin America! I wanted to recommend it to you at home as a quick and interesting study....because even within CA climate approaches differ. Africa is all inclusive, people are always in groups and with other people, and they are event oriented rather than time oriented. So you may be going somewhere but you always make time for a conversation or greeting someone. I have felt a lot less stress because of this! There was a poem about Africa that i came across in the book and I wanted to share it with you:

I'd Like To Go To Africa

Today
I thought
I would like
To go to Africa.

Yes, I will go to Kenya
And see if time
Has stood still
Where at least
The walk
Is on the ground
And all comes
To a sudden halt
At dusk
And sounds
Come from the voice
And travel a mile or two
And strength comes from
The family
Near to you.

Yes, Today
I thought
I'd like to go to Africa.

Sallie Lanier
May 5, 1995