Today we are all celebrating the World Peace day.
Some had serminars, others games and the like. In Tanzania we celebrated the World Peace day with a mix of activities, from speeches, presentations by posters, peace games, drama, songs and poems.The main thing is that we were all together young and old, did a match to the venue of the event, spared our time and prepared a way to show how we describe peace and how we wish to live with it. It was wonderful!

Our celbrations started with matching of about 3 kilometers in the center of the town towards the venue of our celebrations which was at the first parliament building. The group composed of students from different schools from those very young to high school, youth organizations, other organizations, ambassodors from a number of countries(or their representatives), officialls of the UN ( who are the main organizers) and without forgetting representatives from the government in which our guest of honor was the deputy minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and international cooperation.

I observed three very interesting issues during all this, first was that there were representatives of 6 different religions and they all had time to say a prayer for peace, for our country and for the world. Another interesting thing i saw was how people who are involved in sports felt so much for the day and their presence was very well seen by everyone. This included the presence of a government official from the department of sports who actually was not in the program, but we were very overwhelmed and had to put her in.As well the "Right to play" organization who actually had even a peace game for the day and involved kids who were there to see how can these games demonstrate peace and even influence peace.

The second observation was within myself, and this came at the moment of Silence. That one minute seemed too long for me as i was wondering what are all these people thinking now. When it was about to end i started thinking myself, and wondered how many people can not even have a safe activity like we had, or how other people wish to have the like activities to demonstrate how much they hate anthing to do with taking peace away. And i was there, and many of my fellow tanzanians dont even know the day or find the one minute of silence to think about peace.

As i had to elaborate what continues after the minute of silence, i actually ended up telling everyone to clap and feel happy, i realised we should celebrate to have such a peaceful country, and never forget that this happiness can be gone in a minute if we dont keep out efforts to treasure it.

I wish you all a wonderful peace day, and hope you have your one minute of silence to think of peace in a peaceful way.

I forgot to tell you, i was the host of this celebration today, and i felt such a great honor, i have only one problem, Im not allowed to do this kind of work by the private company that i work with, so i gave an excuse today that i have a social responsibility to fulfil, but tomorrow i might be in papers, and today everning i might be in TV, pray for me so they dont see me,otherwise i will be jobless.