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[Aug. 12th, 2006|10:00 pm] |
amazing what is published in different languages, in different news papers.
cnn is basically americanized. okay, thats fine, but you only get one viewpoint. cnn spanish is basically translated.
bbc is a different viewpoint, and different that that of the states. bbc in spanish, is printed in english, it is only in spanish.
i hate to use these terms, such as right and left, but if cnn were right, then cnn spanish would be the exact same right. bbc would be left, and it says a lot but implies more. but bbc spanish is farther left, stating what bbc english dances around the bush to say.
amazing what it was saying in comparison to the english.
this will be a harsh generalization, but i really wonder if it would be effective.
Paulo Freire stated that a people who have everything become passive, becuase they live life nice and don't worry about anything. case and point look at china. China's smart, its civialization has been around for only a few thousand years. it knows how to survive. currently china has a policy to its people of for lack of better words keep your head out of politics and we will give you a good standard of living. good standard of living gives people nohting to complain about...if they have all of their needs met. and therefore they don't become radical...as easily, or they don't become radical due to poverty, oppresion, suppresion, etc.
so here is my harsh generalization. rebuild what you have destroyed in the areas of the west bank and gaza. rebuild schools, places of worship, business that has supported families and towns, rebuild the means to survive, and let them survive. you destroy that, you give them a reason to be angry, you let them live...they have no reason, because life is good. give back their olive grooves and homes and jobs. give a people a means, and they won't have a passion against you, becuase you took it away. if you destroy everything, all you have done is put one more person struggling to stay in the center a much harder time for doing that, and many of those people will become radicals, and you perpetuate your problems. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 15th, 2006|04:17 pm] |
I was saddened the other day.
we have a national holocaust museum in washington DC, and in all places of the US. but we do not have a national slavery museum in washington dc, i don't even know if there is one elsewhere. yes, we have african american museums, but is that the same? does that serve and show the injustices that has happened to the black americans in our country? or do we side step it with the euphenisms?
something happened 60 years ago on foreign soil, and we have a national museum in our country for it. i will say, it was one of the most tragic things that happened in the history of mankind....but lets not forget our own ppl.
for 300 years we had slavery on our soil, even before our country was founded. my country hasn't even existed for 300 years as it does today... slavery, not even looking at equality and civil rights has only been done away with for not even 150 years. slavery has not even been gone for half of the time that it was around. slavery did not just endure for a longer period of time than what our country has in total, but slavery endured into that time. that means, our country, just in the confines of slavery, has had less than half the time away from something that lasted longer than the origins of the country from its precept and birth. we have scars to heal.
that doesn't even include the years of racism, segregation, unequality, never ending cycles, that our black americans now have to endure. what i am curious about is this; if slavery lasted for 300 years, and then the horrible effects of the 100-150 after that, which equals 450....will we have to allow that same about of time for complete healing for the black and white americans. truly, both have scars, the who did the damage as well as the one damaged both have scars, just different kinds. but will it, and does it need to take that long? shoot, if our current events models the mentality of our country, i don't even know if we will last as a nation for another 450 years...which i find deeply sadening as well...
in the mean time, where is our national salvery museum, dedicated to those who lived lives i cannot even fathom. whose effects i see on the angry faces of young men and woman, whose social destruction is obvious. we all feel it, it is in all of us. it doesn't matter if we never had a hand it in, because our blood was. |
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| obviously, school has started. |
[Jan. 10th, 2006|11:11 pm] |
-Paulo Freire of Brazil said that the people were oppressed due to the type of education that brazil had at the time. With out going into why, and basically rewriting the 15 page research paper and other papers i have done on both topics of education, and what freedome really is with concerns of economy - i say that consumerism is out oppressor. What scares me, is that consumerism and materialistic means is preached to us, as freedom and security.
We colonize countries by our business and economy. They become dependent on us, and cannot function without it. That isn't free. But wait, you can get your nikes, you can get your mc donalds, you can get a job making .75$ an hour, not .55$...is more money an image of freedom, or a disguise of oppresion?
We had jobs working for corporations. They are run by big shots and grease politicians. we were dependent on them. our agricultural society, became corporate and consuming. how to make the next buck, is their goal. they move the work to 3rd world countires. it is cheaper to ship a part half around the world and pay someone very poor for what we would do,in our standard of living, for a lot more money. the big shot doesnt move. our economy goes when the middle man is taken out. the big shot makes the next buck when that is moved to the third world country. the middle man, gets poorer. the thirld world country person, improves their condition on living. and becomes, dependent on the big shot, who sold out his own contrymen. does that person in the third world, have a better life because of this? in some cases, very much so. in other cases, i dont think so. one thing is for sure, the gap is increasing. we are dependent, and they are becoming dependent. a lot of dependents to a small group of people who doesnt even know their names, shoud scare you.
capitalism, is not the image manifested in freedom.
-yesterday at the school store, they offered me a free razor and chewing gum...i wonder if they are trying to tell me something.
-it has been so warm lately, and with the large amounts of snow fall that we had early in the year...that is concerns me about global warming patterns, or if this is a fluke.
-i remember in grade school when i thoguht that good old christopher columbus landed his freakig ship on the shores of michigan. miracuously went through all the other great lakes without seeing land, and hit michigan. then, was welcomed by the Indians, yes indians, with a large dinner and arms wide open.
harsh histocial generalization: christopher columbus might have been a bigot - but he landed in latin america and the caribbean if i remember right. but he sailed out of a country that had been ruled by a middle eastern and north african culture for nearly 800 years, let alone different religion - moors. i assume that SPAIN had more Muslim and ME influence at that time than western european. which would mean that that culture would spill more over the latin and south america more that european - which explains a lot about latin and south american culture.
so why did we inherit and get stuck w/ this guy landing here? ...sadly said, id ont remember when the british "jumped on this boat" to the "new world", but the british sure had an effect on our culture, western europe that is. not moorish spain.
-WASP, or anglos, whitey, or crackers, caucasion or the white of non hispanic origin, as i always fill out on applications, and african americans, blacks, coloreds or any other name that i fear using in the case of offending and outside of PC terms.... right now have a greater chance at dialogue than possibly any other time for real discussion and gaining true understanding. in my personal opinion taht is. Our ununited broken history has developoed us culturally to where we are now. obviously. but it leaves us open i think for the best time of dialogue. our grandparents absolutely, most likely our parents, and unfortunately some of us, have suffered discrimination or discriminating. yes, suffered discriminating, it is a shame that anyone should discriminate another for thier skin color. our great grand parents and thier parents for generations, were enslaved, or allowed to enslave. we in the generation that we are, are far enough removed from this to not be destroyed, unless we allow it to destroy us. (in a genearl whole sense) but it is still close enough to still sting, and there are many evident scars and wounds still open in others. we have an oppurtunity now to dialogue, so we are no longer broken and ununited, to talk about our discriminations, our racism and our reverse racism. our anger and where it came from...our parents and grand parents, or our own experiences. we are seperated, but not distant and removed to make harsh generalizations. if understanding is the goal, we can make consideral grounds and improvements.
-we are a melting pot in the US? Not really, more like a big stew, and were having problems that the meat doesn't go well with the potatoes. |
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[Oct. 26th, 2005|10:23 pm] |
I could cry reading this for the sacrifices people my age have decided to take on. I can't imagine what may be going through their head as they make it down that stretch of road. What they are realing giving, risking and sacrificing their lives for. I don't know their morale, I don't know what they are being told or can see. I know that they are being affected in ways that will place them out of the norms of reasoning, because they are seeing their friends and fellow soldiers dying horrifically, so their thoughts, once again, will most likely be polarized to an unfortunate extreme. justification, no. compassion and understanding better for the individual when they come home and seem "messed up".
U.S. troops patrol meat grinder
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/10/26/perry/index.html |
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| i just like drawing on shirts really is what it is |
[Oct. 24th, 2005|03:23 pm] |
I am going to make a shirt, and I would encourage everyone else to do so that has access to a permanent marker and a t-shirt of some sort.
Front reads:
Angry (conservative) citizen?
Back reads:
I am proud to be American
I am a conservative Christian
I love my country
I am ashamed of my last vote
Note: On the front, in paranthesis you can have whatever you want, even if that is nothing. You're religion, your political standing, you're lifestyle, you're ehtnicity, whatever. It could read "angry stupid citizen" for all i care. On the back, the same could be done as well. For example it could be "I am a ______________", and the last line whatever you want. Or it could as well read "my friend is ________", "my student _________", etc.
Something I wouldn't expect;
(line one)
I am an ultra liberal
(line three)
I am ashamed of my last vote.
(i just don't think they would've voted this way)
and not to be a political bigot, someone make one as well that says the same for line one and three, line two states a reactionary conservative, and that you are proud of your last vote for our grand o'casa blanca. put on the front, "happy citizen?"
if this is confusing, put stupid in the parenthesis on the front of the shirt, and then message me for clarification. i am sure that you are a completely intelligent human being who can figure out how to write on a t-shirt and it was my directions that were confusing. |
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| Religion |
[Oct. 24th, 2005|03:16 pm] |
The understanding, acceptance, open mindedness, and a bare minimum of tolerance for religion, belief, belief systems, faith, and religious diversity, is just as important if not more important than understanding, acceptance, open mindedness and tolerance for diversity in cultures, ethnicity, races, and life styles. If at least equal wait is not placed on both, then it is entirely and whole heartedly hypoctrical. Both sides, become at fault if this is not accomplished. Tolerance and acceptance is a bare minimum must, both are almost insulting, because it is still hostile towards the difference. Understanding is the most difficult, but most needed.
Belief and religious understanding, tolerance, and acceptance (UTA) is almost more important than the ethnic, cultural and life style becuase those are shallow and superficial. Eeople are born into ethnicity and culture, my western european decent does not dictate how I believe, my faith can or could. Race is physical, culture is in the middle, and belief is personal, and philosophical. Culture is affected by the two. Religion could be purely cultural, or purely spiritual and philosophical. It could be national and ethnic (like the Jews), culturally defining, but that does not mean that faith and belief always transcend through to ethnic and culturally religious people. And ethnic and cultural religion doesn't neccesarily transcend to the faith and belief system of a person. It can, but it doesn't have to. A person could define themselves as racially, ethnically and culturally religious, and/or purely religious in belief seperated and independent of culture, race, and ethnicity, as well, they could be both.
These are beliefs core to a person, how they are and view the world. how they base their value judgements. The understanding of this, understanding of someone elses view points, beliefs and value judgements is neglected by modern popularity, often said and stated that "religion" is the basis of the world issues and problems of today. This isn't the issue - the issue is the gross lack of understanding of each other - due to fear. Two things:
1. understanding someone elses belief and faith (that they grew up believing it just like you and I within our engrained beliefs - that they may believe it as truthfully and faithfully as I do) is scary because that understanding just very well might lead to a revelation that the basis and core of your beliefs (therefore your upbringing, culture, and parents) are wrong. This is not a comfortable reality that many want to deal with.
2. Just becuase you've analyzed, compared and understand someone elses belief (which may very well be contrary to yours) does not mean that you and your beliefs are wrong, or that you need to reassess your thinking paradigms, and change your beliefs. That would be a lack of faith in your own belief system (and therefore I would contend that you need to find the belief system that you can have complete faith in). Since we are dealing with faith and perception of truth, it must be realized that truth to a person IS TRUTH to THAT person - not neccesarily truth to everyone. This doesn't validate relativism, or that all are right, but it proves perceptionism on the basis of enviromental upbringing and surroundings with the person's own analysis of the belief system of their culture, upbringing, surrounds, and parents. How they have molded it in their understanding from their conclusions to the analysis of the modern world around them to their personal life (whehter or not this was done implicitly or explicitly doens't matter).
To deny a person due to ethnicity, and race denies their flesh, color, heritage, it denies their physical or historical make up. But their beliefs, and value judgements could seperate and validate them as a person. But to deny a person due to belief, denies them as a person in how they think and believe - IT DENIES THEM AS A PERSON.
We must have understanding of beliefs, and religion. We must be cautious of those who are anti-religion and faith, it is one more thing to make us passive. Because to give someone the power to believe differently, is dangerous and gives them a weapon, a weapon of difference between two beliefs that could cause conflict. This must be a risk we are willing to take, and an uphill battle we are willing to face due to the difficulty and pain that is in understanding someone elses beliefs without feeling that your own are threatened. If we do not do this we will deny people as the free thinking person that we have been created as, or evolved into, however you believe. |
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| wait till i talk about corporate america |
[Oct. 21st, 2005|02:56 pm] |
I am going to be one angry citizen if things desolve like they seem to be setting up. We the US gov have been making cracks and verbal threats towards Syria and Iran in the last few months. Setting up the ground, not hiding our hostilities towards what we think is going on over there. Then, with the combined events of the bombing of Hairiri does not make the situation any better, especially since to the western mind Syria would be the first suspect. Bush, when he went into Iraq, did it without the advice, council, aid or support of the UN, and this has backfired on him. Using WMDs as his main point, subtily saying that they were aiding terrorists (highly unlikely), but WMDs was his push. We all know to this day, there aint no WMDs, and there will not be any. Intelligence went bad, not only, but there is rumors of not listening to inteligence that might have said that there was no WMDs in the first place. (Then why go in Bush? why?). So Bush would not be able to make any sort of credible threat with the intent of using force or action after his little blunder of that, becuase no one will trust his judgement, but what about UN? Cnn just reported that the little German investigation by UN into the killing is probably going to most likely fall into Syria's hands. Not good. Especially since, Cnn America and .com just recently has put forth two incorrect "official" (if i remember correctly) reports about letters that they had to renig. Hoaxes. I just don't personally trust their news sourcing, especially here. So lets see some of the facts;
Bush makes threats and verbal abuse towards Syria and Iran.
Bush wants Syrian Government out for encouraging terrorists.
Bush went into Iraq, his reasons were lies, quite possibly he knew this, so really why did he want to go in?
UN, Germany, France, and most other world community against our invasion of Iraq.
Cnn puts out bad info.
Cnn reports that the UN investigation of the asassination of Hariri by the GERMAN may fall to SYRIA.
Okay, so this loads the America public with information from a [shady] source (CNN) to deal with Syria, and the credibility comes from UN and Germany, our opponents to the war a few years back.
Hmmm, Bush can bank off of someone elses credibility, cus his is screwed, to deal with Syria.
If he was wrong about Iraq, and his true motives are unknown about, why then does he want Syria? take it from me as a given, and you won't beleive this, but, Syrian GOVERNMENT is probably not ENCOURAGING terrorists. nor did or would they do the Hariri assasination. Now some of this is Middle Eastern thinking, and not completely western, but nonetheless. In fact, whispers in the low talks of the ME is pointing fingers across rivers and possible oceans towards this little Hariri attack. This is were it goes all movie like: Governments framed, old opposing Germans investigate, old opposing UN verifies and reports, and unknown motives are taken out. do i need to spell the irony out more? or even the twist? It is a very complex, twisted, and thought out plan for what reason?
some would say, we are securing a nation and the borders there of.
one thing is true, we are polarizing people and nations and races. We are destroying the middle grounds of thought. and this is very dangerous. this creates fanatics on both sides.
don't be fooled by small tokens of "states" very close. this is probably disgusting facade and smoke screen as well. more polarization.
why don't we deal with some real threats these days? like sending our work, manufacturing plants to other countries. because the work is cheaper. especially countries with billions of people, and rising "economy", and horrid human rights, were oppresion of their own people is not unknown by the world community, but ignored. because of the ammount of money that the corporations, effing corporations and CEOs, get because of it. remember one thing, in WWII, our manufacturing plants were the exact thing that was converted in moments to save our country. and we are sending them to a country, were 20 and 30 years ago we were fighting cold wars and daughter wars against their "supposed" ideology. we are sending them to a country that has more pandemics and epidemics coming out of it faster than the crack from the streets of detroit. to a country who does not think of its citizen, and says so. to a country of a billion people. id rather send them weapons arms, then our factories. ya know what enrages me and scares me about all of this; is the message i get. our government isn't against communism (or what is called and practiced as communism today), they are against socialism. they arn't for democracy neccesarily, but for capitalism. this is what i see. open your eyes.
i am proud to be an american. I am a very conservative Christian. i love my country. i told this to everyone in the ME. i am ashamed of my last choice in voting, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. and i loathe corporate America. i can't say this strong enough. btw, democracy isn't as much democracy, when you only have 2 choices. |
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 9th, 2005|02:14 pm] |
in the last 2, 3 years, how many people have been lost to natural disasters? earthquakes in iran, and now pakistan, the tsunami in the south east, even katrina and rita. how many "small" disasters have their been like katrina? that would add up the numbers very quickly. sad thing is, the earthquake in iran, now this earthquake in pakistan, they are forgotten and not felt...at least by me and i fear many of my peers. we see it on the medio like we see death on the movies. i am desensitized. we morned, and forgot the tsunami. how many thousands, if not millions of people have we lost in an instant moment, and we never morned their death, felt their impact or life, that was snuffed out in the blink of an eye by a devistating natural disaster? it is a shame. it is exploiting their life when we view it casually on the news or our ccn.com and then talk about it in our little coffee shops for conversation and classrooms, and go on without thinking and live our vanity and materialism, i am guilty nonetheless the same.
while we read about bird flus in the medio causing pandemics...not epidemics, pandemics. have we lost the amount of people in moments that we could lose with this flu????? yet we never feared their death or felt their loss. i wonder if we could lose more in seconds to natural disasters to that flu...will we forget the millions lost to the natural disaster in the last year, and coming years and fear those that might perish by a flu? it is like we are being taken off guard. we are lookin and fearing this one thing, while we are being killed by something we don't even see.
this doesn't even account for the millions that die of hunger, thirst, curable disease, aids, cancer...our own hands. those accounts will pale in comparrison any bird or natural disaster.
we don't fear the loss of millions of people. we fear the invisble that we can see. |
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 6th, 2005|12:44 am] |
today you should destroy somebodies world.
by
crushing their pre-judgments and sterio types.
you should be the anomaly that succeded. you should just be the anomaly.
you should be the person who crept in and wasn't supposed to be allowed, but you shattered and changed their viewpoints. you slipped in through the cracks.
you should spell incorrectly. |
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| education part 2; we are indentured servents to society |
[Oct. 5th, 2005|12:42 am] |
our education cracks me up. first of all, one of the main objectives of public education and education in general is to ingrain how to think about certain world events, the perception of the world, history from our viewpoint, to teach us what we "should" learn. about propaganda, and ideology of this place. much of this is taught explicitly and implicity. outright, and sumbliminly. from how they teach to what they teach and what they emphasize. but at this current moment, they are telling us that without a bachelors, we are dead in the water. second, the bachelors has evolved into a high school diploma...rahter depressing if you ask me, because we could've learned much of what we are learning now in highschool, and high school in the US is not a place to learn, but a place of social activities and a 4 year party...so i pay for that 4 year bachelors degree to learn what we should've learned during the first 4 years that my padres got taxed on. then i must look towards masters, more money. i find the whole thing ironic. get credit, get credit cards, go to school, take out loans, get a mortage, tie yourself down to this system. the whole point of this rant;
i go to school for 4 years and go into debt doing that. just to learn what this union thinks i should know, believe and be able to spew out at any given moment about our super patriotism, over glorified history, and freeing of the oppressed known world seeking democracy... we are the slaves to ideology.
i still go according to freire, the oppressors are oppressed. they create passive people. passive people don't think, they do what they learned, and they learned to be passive. our education could throw us immediately into debt not to learn to think but what they want us to know...
we are the indenturd servents to society by way of the thing that was supposed to be our freedom...our knowledge
anyways, this thought is a little more disorganized than id like. i probably have it written down somewhere in better form. |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 26th, 2005|11:08 pm] |
i don't think that the 9-5 job appealse to me.
reason number 679 to not go into this corporate world.
reason number 670; chuck palahniuk
reason number 643; counting doesn't effing matter. |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 21st, 2005|12:43 pm] |
my nieces names mean respectively:
Aubrie;
ruler of the elves.
variation: blonde ruler of the elves.
Kennedie;
helmet head
as well; misshapen head. |
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[Sep. 15th, 2005|10:55 pm] |
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stewart Mill
This little quote is quite the interesting thing in the point that it provides. And I believe that it is true, that a man, not mankind, but a man becomes miserable when he has no purpose greater than himself that he is willing to give his own life for. Same goes for religion, people say that religion is the cause of wars. But religion is the basis for beliefs of all mankind.
They want people to get rid of their personal beliefs, they want people and mankind to really have nothing to live for. because if you having nothing that is worth living for, what is the point of living?
Paulo Freire, who did pedogagy in Brasil about 30 years ago kinda said it along the lines of that the people in charge want the people to be passive. Because if they are passive, they won't do anything, and the people in charge can remain in charge. how did they do this? via education. ironic, if the above statment by Mr. Mill is true, it is the education and many other groups that are screaming end all war. it is the educated that are pushing anti-God. not atheist, which is another belief system, but anti-God, anti-religion, anti-faith, anti-belief. ...take away islam, they are all terrorists. take away christianity, they are all narrow minded... that is the chanting i hear. in my mind, the christians are the ones they have passified first, they are the ones who have blindly jumped to the cadence of a president because he refered to a higher power, and said God bless America and our troops. How dare they use my religion in vain and exploited it. how dare they exploit soldiers in that way.
get rid of religions. becuase they cause deep rooted beliefs and hope. get rid of wars, becuase they are caused by religions. get rid of anything that is of any worth to live for. be passive, drive your nice car, buy your nice clothes, have your nice mortage. because that is the meaning of life. |
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| if you were to read my linguistic notebook |
[Sep. 14th, 2005|08:39 am] |
Notes from LIN 30?, Notes on Syntax;
Come to the conclusion deucation is not to learn something new, but to learn how to think. our only decision is how do we want to do that - through what studes. sciences or literature. only problem is when the propaganda of the area of studies becomes more important than learning how to think, (they encourage development of the ideology and not analysis of the ideology, because of fear of seeing through the propaganda of the ideology) we no longer become educated.
LET'S BUDGE
we have a psycho biatch, and a crazy person. they're friends. shakity shake. my teacher wears crazy shirts. today is pink.
about the pscycho biatch; is IT a dude wanna be she or a she wanna be dude? IT'S shirt says prince.
about the neglege wearing TT/WT: she makes me wanna throw up.
aux has to be followed by a vp, preceeded by a np. the np (sub) is BLANK the aux and the vp is complimented by the aux. cannot be alone w/ vp or np unless after question form of which the vp or np would still be implied therefore still there. what does this say of it's postition/structure/unit? it is independante BLANK (by np) complimenting another (vp) - question format changes that. it is not apart of any np unit or vp unit.
the bad thing on LIN is that i can't hear a sentence w/out analyzing it now...maybe thats why they're all screwed up. |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 11th, 2005|04:03 am] |
NO MORE TACO BELL!
im seeing crazy stuff. i want sleep.
i need a day. |
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| (no subject) |
[Aug. 28th, 2005|12:34 pm] |
is it sad that after traveling and living by yourself for so long that you no longer feel akward eating in restaurants at tables of 4 by yourself?
I went to Petra yesterday. That was an experience. It all started the night before when my friend anna and i went to the bus station to confirm times and everything. we go to one bus station, and the buses don't go to petra from there. that station only goes to north jordan and the such. we need to go to the south station to get busses to the south. it seems like common sense when you read it there, but it doesnt work like that. two main bus stations, abdali, and raghadan, i didn't even know that there was a south station. we get to the south station. and start asking about busses. then this, "are you two marriade?". No, we are not marriade. then, after that question and answer. he winks at anna, and i am no longer there... i didn't really sleep that night. i don't know what time i went to bed. i got destroyed by these mosquitos and i woke up at 6 to go to the bus station, hoping to find a taxi. which we did very quickly thank God. we get on the bus, and i have a load of water, mixed nuts, and some crackers. i spill coffee on me. meet some brothas from algeria, and thats about it. besides the london people. anna thought they were speaking german, so did i, untill i actually spoke to them. freaking accents. so we get to petra, all so far normal. but then, i dont know how many times we got this. "buy this cheap, you marriade?"...all day. little children, "give me dinar, you marriade?" this was all in arabic. so then, this one little girl after this usual form of questioning that we get used to over the day asks for a dinar or something. we tell her no, we can't. then her friend comes, same questioning, asks, we were going to give something to her, but her other friend comes. that was akward. kk, then we are walking to this other site, and this little girl like 3 years old out of no where screaming gift and trying to put 5 qirsh (about 7 cents) in anna's pocket. she puts it in there and runs away. anna chases after her saying no no she can't take it. the little girl won't take the 5 qirsh back. so i grab a twix out of my stash of food and run up and toss it i her lap, anna at the same time puts the 5 qirsh on the little tray of hers and i start yellin yalla anna yalla vamanos (we talk in spanish, shes from italy), the little girl then chases after us scream in arabic i buy it i buy it. i was laughing for half the day about that. until the painfully long donkey ride then camel ride. so then we call the bus driver to get a ride back. we take a taxi to the bus, and get on. come to find out, he is taking some jordanian regement air force back to amman. their commander or wahtever, the bro flis a hellicopter, is 21, and we chill the whole way back. big white american don, beautiful italian anna, and the jordanian airforce. so half way through, they start dancing to the usual arabic music. and decide to teach the big white american. that only lasted 4 hours that it was ever supposed to. but it was fun. then the crazy cab drvier. they get nuttier by the day, seriously. i had one a few weeks back that twitched, like chin to the freaking shoulder and back n .4 seconds. but this one, he was crazy. he skipped the whole are you marriade question and asked anna if she was effing pregnant. anna does tango and danced her whole life, she might, might, weigh 100lbs. we get out early, and walk home. i don't remember my taxi ride back to my place. oh yeah, petra was nice too. |
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[Jul. 16th, 2005|03:24 pm] |
Erika, be jealous. Here in Jordan I have met and become friends with a whole bunch of italians, whom speak if not understand spanish. they are teaching me italian. so we all talk in spanish, they teach me italian, and we are all studying arabic for like 4 hours a day. italians, italian, spanish, arabic in arabia.
as well
i have found an NGO that works with Iraqi Refugees. They were looking for volunteers to work with kids ages 7-15 in an informal educational setting. Out of about 40 people I was chosen to work in a corp group of 12 with these kids for the duration of two months twice a week for 2 hours each setting. I am very very excited about this. |
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[Jul. 2nd, 2005|11:56 pm] |
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i just had a conversation with a little lebanese girl in french. i don't know why she spoke to me in french, but hey...maybe i said something earlier. i wonder if she knows that i speak english....i wonder if she speaks english. eh, no matter. |
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[Jul. 2nd, 2005|11:42 pm] |
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i just got back a few hours ago from an afternoon on the mediterranean (sp?). it was great. we are about to go back to a restaurant that is opening on the shore. I've been in Amman for a week, i will be there for over 2 months, and i decided to go to beirut for a week before things start in amman. so here i am in a city north of there called jbail. good times. |
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