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Bubbles are the universal language for fun - #showcase-sunday
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<center><sup>Photo taken by me @derangedvisions</sup></center>

# <center>African Stories</center>

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For this week's #showcase-sunday post, I am sharing a [post](https://steemit.com/life/@derangedvisions/bubbles-are-the-universal-language-for-fun-african-stories-entry-3) I wrote about my time in Africa when I spent some time with some of the villagers playing with some bubbles. For those of you that don't know, I spent about a month living with a Maasai tribe in Tanzania. It was such an amazing experience and I hope to be able to go back at some point and visit the villagers and the other friends that I made. Anyways, let's get onto the post:

There is nothing better than hearing the laughter and seeing a smile of a child. Hearing the laughter of children should bring a smile to anyone's face and brighten up their day.

During a walk after we arrived in the Maasai village, all of the children kept their distance from us, but we could tell that they were intrigued by our presence in their village. A group of white people in an area of Tanzania that is a ways from normal civilization is a rare occurrence for them. So my fellow "mzungus" and I came up with a plan to get the children to warm up to us. We went back to our area and collected some chocolate bars and some bubbles and set back out on our trek.

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<center><sup>Photo taken by me @derangedvisions</sup></center>

Word quickly spread amongst the homes that we had returned and we had peace offerings with us. The older children came to us first, so I began to break the chocolate into small pieces and divvy them out for everyone. Soon the little ones began to line up and eagerly waited for their share of the chocolate. 

After we gave them some chocolate, everyone started to warm up to us and began to speak to us. We had a limited vocabulary in Swahili and a pretty much non existent Maasai vocabulary at this point. We could say "Habari yako?" (how are you) and "Hujambo" (hello) at this point and that was about it. The kids loved it though, their faces lit up and began talking back to us at a million miles an hours.

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<center><sup>Photo taken by me @derangedvisions</sup></center>

Then it was time to bring out the big guns. We pulled out the bubbles and began to blow them and all the kids started giggling and chasing them around. We let them take turns trying to blow them, which took a little bit of training because some couldn't quite perfect it at first, but then they became masters.

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<center><sup>Photo taken by me @derangedvisions</sup></center>


This child here in the worn shirt with the star on it was such a special little spirit. He had the hardest time blowing the bubbles, but when he blew his first one, he was so proud of himself.

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<center><sup>Photo taken by me @derangedvisions</sup></center>

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<center><sup>Photo taken by me @derangedvisions</sup></center>

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<center><sup>Photo taken by me @derangedvisions</sup></center>

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<center><sup>Photo taken by me @derangedvisions</sup></center>

The young boy in the star sweater had a spine injury when he was younger, so he was not able to move around as fast at the other children and when he did try and run around, he had to use a makeshift crutch to walk with, nothing was slowing him down and he was all smiles as he was going after the bubbles.

<center>![wwest170621_7294.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRAfiYsk8PK76351FqcqkYitegBiKUesBRKd6KZekHQHL/wwest170621_7294.jpg)</center>
<center><sup>Photo taken by me @derangedvisions</sup></center>

This young boy in the red baseball sweater had the sweetest eyes and the warmest smile out of everyone in the group. The above picture is one of my favorites of him because you can just see the wonder in his eyes as he looks at the bubble floating in the air. He had patiently until so many other kids went through the line blowing bubbles and then when it was his turn to blow some bubbles, he got the biggest smile on his little face.

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<center><sup>Photo taken by me @derangedvisions</sup></center>

I am not sure if the girl in the picture with him is a sister of him or even his mother, but she helped out both of these two boys I mentioned in this post as they were taking turns. You could tell that she cared for them and that these two little ones were very special to her. 

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<center><sup>Photo taken by me @derangedvisions</sup></center>

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<center><sup>Photo taken by me @derangedvisions</sup></center>

As we ran out of bubbles, we let them all know that we had to go, but we would be back another time to play again. 

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<center><sup>Photo taken by me @derangedvisions</sup></center>

My time is Africa was filled with so many amazing experiences. Many people go there for the animals, but I am glad that I was able to spend a month living among these people. It was truly a humbling experience to be around people who had so little, but were filled with so much life and love for one another. It is something we can all learn from them.

Thank you for taking the time to read through my post. If you enjoyed it, upvotes are always appreciated and resteems are a great way for others to be able to enjoy this story as well. I have many more stories from my time in Africa that I will be sharing in this series. I am a photographer, artist, filmmaker, and writer, so if any of these topics interest you, feel free to give me a follow so that you can stay up to date on my latest posts. Once again thank you for stopping by and spending your time here with me.

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@derangedvisions · 
Thanks man. I’ve shared quite a bit about my time there in a bunch of my older posts. That is one reason I have been sharing them again with the #showcase-sunday tag every Sunday. Here is a huge post about the safari I went on. 

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@wwwiebe · 
That's awesome. I just finished reading through that and that must have been incredible! I can't even begin to comment enough (though that lazy leopard may very well win the internet). Thanks for pointing it out to me!
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