Thursday, August 23, 2007
small place-nick weissenberger
The author talks about how the natives and tourist see differnent events in different ways. One of these diffrences is the amount of rain that Antigua receives, and the natives use of water. The long droughts that Antigua has benifits the tourist because he or she would like to enjoy their vacation time without it being interrupted by rain. On the other hand the natives of Antigua see the rain as a blessing to there land and allows them to use more water then normal. The landscape is another difference in the eyes of the natives and tourist. The tourist sees the land as different and beautiful, where as the natives to Antigua see the land for no more than their home. They do not appreciate the views as much as the tourist does. I believe this is mostly due to the natives living there and seeing these sights and living through the droughts that they do not appreciate these things the same way the tourist does.
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I can understand where Nick is coming from, for example, back at my home town people will come to look at the "lake". So, they all drive really slow, so, they do not miss anything. This angers me because I do not personally value our lake, I always think why not go to the ocean? I do believe that when you leave your town you find things that you value, that the natives do not. Which in return when someone visits your home town you do not see what they see, because no matter what who ever lives there sees the same thing day in and day out. It is almost like we forget about how we saw it for the first time.
-Brittany
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