much Payne helps to satifsy hungers

in the pics: two pictures of busses, each one has a very different personality. although there is a "fleet" of yellow busses that are very much the same.
Fixing computers at my school. A view of the "guts" of two computers with that extra special (and expensive) canned air to keep the pesky dust away...well, we try anyway.

10/20
“we just eat to satisfy the hunger.” Said our science teacher. Just to satisfy hunger…because there may not be enough for everyone to eat until they are full (maona). Most times in America I’ve eaten until I was full, way past the “just to satisfy hunger” stage. I think a lot of it was because I was so active I felt I would melt away if I didn’t eat a lot. And I was hungry all the time. I don’t know if I can relate to this very well. I’ve always eaten as much as I wanted.

I watched a movie called Max Payne. There was a lot of pain in the movie, but peace at the ending, which is nice. Man kicks butt for family. I like that. Isn’t that what anyone would do…well, maybe not as violently. Based on a video game…aren’t movies usually based on books or plays? Another video game called Resident Evil is having movies made, and I hear they are doing quite well at the box office.

There are many countries I see helping samoa: USA (peace corps volunteers), Japan (JICA volunteers), Australia sends youth ambassadors and some money (AusAid), New Zealand gives money, Canada builds health supply storage buildings, and I just saw a white van that had the Turkish flag on it…something about health I think.

Some reading that I did…I don’t even remember the title of the book..but it was in the afterword (or whatever the part after the book is called):
“fourth and most important issue hinges on a word much in play these days: offence. I find this most worrying aspect of the whole affair because it is symptomatic of deep and far reaching changes in our political, social, and cultural life.
If the feelings run (or are seen to run) high and deep enough, a good price will be fetched.
If the best we can say is how we feel about something, we turn from reason to a type of emotivism in which the frameworks for moral and political judgments collapse.
If offence is felt, the artists has no recourse.
Accepting that that voice can be every bit as rich and nuanced, individual and interesting as any other is profoundly political in a society which too often measures its minorities in banner headlines.”

I believe that many times the minorities are more rich and nuanced than the…non minority labeled group. They just need to turn up the volume on that richness. I say “they” because I am not a minority and no where else have I seen it more than right here in Samoa. I am a minority on this island, but this is a small island. All islanders seem to know that white people lead to help and possibility a better life. Why is it that skin color so often seems to determine how well off financially we one is? Notice I didn’t say happy…I know many samoans who are more happy than many of my friends in America.