organic Darjeeling tea

Darjeeling tea makes me think of the movie, Darjeeling Express, that my dad rented one evening last year and half watched while he was cooking in the kitchen. I think he rented it because it was contained the word "Darjeeling" in it, and he loves Darjeeling tea. It wasn't a bad movie. It had an odd cast of Owen Wilson, Adrian Brody, and a brief appearance by Natalie Portman. Hahah Terri, you would have probably hated it. Basically the movie was about three brothers (Wilson, Brody, and another guy) traveling around India to find their mother who was hiding in a covenant. It really wasn't that great of a movie...but I remember one scene where they had finally found their mother, and they were talking, and one of them asked why she had left. Flustered, she gestured at the monestary behind her with all of the nuns (I think they ran an orphanage) that was obviously underfunded and didn't have a lot of resources, and said "they needed me." And her sons said back that they needed her too.
I think about that scene a lot when I want to go to Africa. I also think about what people mean by "need" and who are we to say that one person's need is greater than another? Mostly, I think about whether or not the people whom we think need us, really do. I think about that more broadly, like Africa. I want to incorporate that in the short story I will eventually write. I think that since I have been blessed with wealth, resources, and an education, I should use it to help others. But I have to understand how to help. I think this will be the problem. I've been thinking about how I was raised a lot lately, as well, and I'm sure that my viewpoints and culture varies vastly from the culture I would want to "help". But I think we could have a global dialogue, learn from another, and both be students and teachers at the same time. I'm trying to keep an open mind about this as I go to Costa Rica. I used to believe firmly that particular things (drinking before 21, sex before marriage, etc) were wrong, and it was black and white, but now I am beginning to see a gray. And I want to keep that gray area and not impose my idea of black and white upon the people I will meet.