I read a tour book, before going to Tanzania, that said I should bring pens to give out to the kids in the villages. But the whole tourist pen distribution situation has backfired there be cause we were always followed by a million kids running after us yelling, "GIVE ME MY PEN!" Even when you'd see a kid standing in a field 100 yards away, he'd hold out his hand and yell, "MZUNGU! GIVE ME MY PEN!!" Little kids are scary. 