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I'm not loving Africa today....

No sweat, I will always love Africa, it's just that today, I'm taking a break. I'm supposed to be somewhere important, but the sole car we have right here isn't working. I'm supposed to call the parties I'm supposed to meet but not only don't I have units but the phones lapha haven't been working for the past couple months. Now, if I show I'm upset, the look I get is "everyone else is dealing with it, why can't YOU deal with it, get over yourself!" Some really good friends were teaching me about how we women are ( it was a refresher course LOL), sometimes, when the heat is high, we don't respond logically to certain situations, we respond emotionally. I'ma take that tip and head into my logic room and see how I can best arrest this situation. I'll start by locating a good donkey-cart driver and then a long enough wire to connect this tin can to the one in .... I'ma see y'all later. Psych! Guess I'll be over my

Lips sealed on "that" win

I have a lot of opinions on Thursday's votes but I will stick my nose out of it. I have learned to pick my battles. So I will make my opinions known about Constantine's retirement. I salute him 101% for dumping FAM (and by default, dumping the Sports Media). The sheer arrogance, you hire a guy and dump him at the mercy of the back/sports pages...don't offer him support and expect him to dance to your tune? I liked the guy because he told our "boys" in the Malawi strip the truth. He was PROGRESSIVE. I might be a minority in this view but seriously, when was the last time our players (the superstar crew especially) were banned from playing? FAM, dude, get a grip and figure it out. Stop wasting moulah!

Football in the village

You never know where you'll find talent. I'm developing a little football (Americans: read "soccer") team out in the village where I work. I figured since the kids have so much time on their hands, why not get them into an activity. So I bunched the girls and the boys together and encourage them to play their lungs out, there are two teams now that scrimage during the week. One named themselves "Arsenal" and the other "Lions". I get a hearty laugh on the inside when I see the older ladies pass by the pitch, frown a little and comment, "Even the girls are playing soccer?" Or when the girls are dribbling and the little boys go, "Well! I can't see the soccer ball with all those skirts flapping about!" Well, little boy, let the girls be! Good times.

Toussaint L'Ouverture

Haiti intrigues me. 5 main things drew me to thinking about this country I am yet to visit. The first two are negatives: 1. hearing about voodoo in reference to Haiti as a child. scary stuff. 2. After arguing about Malawi not being the poorest country in the world, my colleague came back to me and conceded, "Ok, I checked, it's not your country that's poorest, it's Haiti." Still don't want to know which country is really the poorest because I don't believe in stats.... they're all fairly dodgy but it's not Haiti really, according to the stats. used, Haiti is deemed to be the poorest in the Western Hemisphere not the whole world. 3. The Haitian president's exile, in Africa. The positive things that drew me to thinking about Haiti are: 1. My dad is a Professor in French so I really loved the Haitian origin music videos growing up! Picked up a little Creole of my own. 2. and the other is what I am learning now, that the truth about Haiti is o

A detour in my life

I was reading a poem online by Eric Mtika and it really made me think. It talked about the loss of curiosity and the striving for greener pastures. My own personal application was that as I reach out for my own dreams, sometimes when I grab a hold of them they turn into vapor. They are not what I had painted them to be in my own mind's eye. People, locations, money.... so for me, it's not really a loss of curiousity but an overload of curiosity as questions begin to outweigh the answers. It's kinda depressing when you dwell upon it....you dream of living in a king's castle all your life and when you are finally king, you discover that kings probably have more blood on their hands than everybody else. Too sensational a thought but you get the drift. Anyways, I choose to remain curious and have open-ended questions. Gives me a reason to wake up in the morning. Also the knowledge that there is only One who will never let anyone down, and that's Jesus, helps me to to l

on to other matters at hand

I certainly won't ditch my efforts to observe keenly the goings on in Zimbabwe but there are other matters at hand. Parliament opens again this month-end and one of the key topics is Section 65. For those of you who don't know what that is; basically the President is deemed wrong for ditching the party the he went into office with....so..... God help us!

Malawi Soccer wins 2-1 as Zim awaits poll results

Zimbabwe's main opposition leader has rejected calls by President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party to re-check the presidential election results. Morgan Tsvangirai said such a move would be illegal and impractical. Eight days after the poll, the country's election commission has yet to announce the results. The High Court in Zimbabwe has said it will rule on Monday on an opposition petition demanding the immediate release of the poll results. A judge at the court in the capital in Harare said he would first consider an argument by the Zimbabwean Electoral Commission (ZEC) that his court did not have jurisdiction. (BBC) Malawi Soccer The team is like night and day right now. Three straight wins after 6 straight losses. I am proud of them now. I say NOW because I was totally embarrassed by their lack of patriotism before. Good grief Constantine! what did u do to the team? I was glad for Swaziland's loss, surprised we beat Namibia, but Mozambique, I didn't see t