Waving hands charity

What? Yes, I think waving hands might be included as charity. This thought came after I and my family went by an old train called Puffing Billy.

Puffing Billy is an old steam train for tourists who want to know rain forests in Dandenong. The area is like a Puncak area in Cianjur, East Java, but not so spectacular like Puncak area. This puffing billy has been modificated to be suitable for tourists, not only the train itself but also all staffs work for puffing billy. The conductors and train machinists work to check tickets and to run the trains, and, most importantly, as an artists who should smile all the time to be pictured with passangers.

All passangger were very happy. They waved their hands to most of people who were looking at the train which passed by. We passed by many different peoples but mostly were children who were playing with their families and car passenggers who waited for our train to pass by. Perhaps the passanggers of Puffing Billy were quite exagerated with their happiness of going by an old train so they waved their hands to all people they saw. I was surprised to see that most of the people waved their hands back to us. Some were anthusiastically waved their hands, supporting and adding the happiness of the train' passanggers. Few children intendedly stood at the back of their homes to wave their hands to puffing billy passenggers.

My husband jokingly said that the municipality has advised these people who live nearby puffing billy to wave their hands anytime they see this train pass by. That is may be the case in the New Order era in Indonesia, but not here in Australia. Waving hands are significant aspect in this puffing billy and dandenong tourism, that without them going by an old train is sober.

This experience made me thought seriously that waving hands is also a charitable activity.