Cultural Differences

One of the joys (and sometimes struggles!) of living in another culture is learning about cultural differences. This past week, we hosted the manager of our Kajiado Training Centre, Paul Lupempe, at our house. While he was with us, we talked about writing thank you notes to those who are supporting the centre directly. With the note, we thought it would be good to send a group shot of the centre staff. Paul agreed to go back and send one to us by email that we could have printed.

Here is the first version we received...
















We then explained to Paul that most Americans like to see smiling faces in pictures. As a result, here is version two that was sent with the letter...















What a difference a smile makes!