At the beginning of class today, we talked about Africa. My first impression of Africa was all kinds of animals in the Sahara and small houses with not very much water. The simulation that we did about different things in Africa like the economy, education, technology, and health really got me thinking. A lot of kids don’t get an education and can die because of HIV/AIDS because they cant get any medication. A lot of them are also orphans because of that. It really breaks my heart knowing that there are many people suffering over there. They don’t have much technology, and only the developed countries even have cell phones that many kids in our country have. After this lesson I learned that Africa is really different from us and there are a lot of problems that need to be solved there. I had no idea that it was this serious. It makes you feel like you need to help them, and even not complain when something that is so normal for us is not working out when the people in Africa don’t have very much. Also today, we talked about the different people, and you wouldn’t believe how many people that I thought weren’t African actually really were. I makes me think about how many different languages and culture there are there, especially compared to use on the US. I think a lot differently about Africa now.