4/10/07 - Random thoughts

What made me leave Tofo Beach ?? Spent new years there, partied hard, but I'll tell yea what made me leave. The last night before I left I went on a little adventure to cover all of Tofo. Right before Fatima's Nest I saw this 40+ year old women just laying on the side of this dirt road sleeping, kinda odd. Women was just skin & bones, sleepin away in the dirt. On my way back home at like 4 am I walked by that same women, still in the same position, sleeping, thought to myself, shit, maybe she's dead. Walked over to where she was laying, greeted her, no response. I eventually woke her up and tried to speak some broken Portuguese to her but she just stared at me, like an empty shell. The place where I was staying had a few extra beds, thought she'd be better off sleeping under a roof rather than in a ditch on the side of the road. I think she was very sick mentally... Nothing I could do would motivate her to move or even acknowledge my existence, severe case of dementia if I ever saw one.

I felt really bad, partying the whole night, oblivious to the real world around me. That's why I left the next day, didn't feel right. A beautiful vacation destination but yet I see all kinds of shit that just makes me want to cry. How the fuck can you enjoy yourself knowing that there is some old lady half out of her mind sleeping in a ditch down the street ? I can't

Thinking about that night gives me more motivation to start this MozambiquMesh project. It will make a difference no matter how big or small. These people are beautiful and they deserve the best the world has to offer. Fuck the nay sayers, people that say ignorance is bliss in Africa.