21 October 2005

Jadarmiyya d desert

Jadarmiyya d desert

and it was all about the borders again. algeria morocco without capitals. what capitals good for if they do not really translate the concerns of people. i do not personally like capitals specially in the eyes i mean "I" and in the beginnings things like rabat algiers nouakshoot.. did i just misspell again this Victorian transtextual leit motif. i care a little.
the borders are again full of injured hungry people that we all call afraican after having spent a whole lot of time trying to " burn" the borders to a promised land: europa. i know how it looks like to be under the mercy of moroccan jadarmiyya. the gendarmes of the sahara. city dwellers who are pissed off.. angry and hungry for moroccan riyals.
i know the sahara borders from times of camel traffics and now cigarettes and hashish. well sometimes arms well we sell everything in the borders and we buy jadarmiyya. and now our friends the gendarmes have other occupations that have to do with the "black" illegal immigrants. they are not six or seven people, they are thousands of people. scary situation for the gendarmes. but they easiest thing is to throw them out there n what s called the borders of algeria. and start the talk of the regimes. insulting each other. and accusing each other about things done. they never talk about things to do. Things like opening the borders for people to visit each other. or problems of Tiharyyin and other villages that we had to evacuate in the deserts of morocco.
 according to aljazeera, morocco has recently expelled at least 2000 immigrants, sparking concern from international human rights groups and aid organizations about the conditions and speed of the operation."Difficulties are compounded as Morocco has strained relations with Algiers since the latter has backed the Polisario Front during more than a decade of political impasse following a truce in 1992, and hosts Polisario's Saharawi government in exile."
well things get mixed up for the two capitals. and the Polizario issues surfaced here are just a face of shame that the two regimes are showing. who cares about what they think now. the care should fall on these thousands of people thrown out there in the sahara deserts without food or medication. there are pregnant women and sick people women and men who need help.
Mr. jettou, the head of moroccan bureaucracy accuses algeria of letting illegal immigrants cross the borders. he thinks that algeria is trying to foreground the W.Sahara issue by letting all these people in.
well here we are busy talking about how low the contexts are and we so the readings for our PI classes.  we know about the coming frosts more than we know about bread needed for our friends imprisoned in the sahara deserts trying to just reach home. bennaqs.
 
 

25 September 2005

Obi-alaykum

wa-alaykum obi.

well OB One has fnished and all te tasks in line.
all thetown was talking about OB in the last couple of weeks. life had to stop. partners and children had t suffer through the stories told by Obeoners. paople get board and they still had to practice what we like to call emotional support. now they all have time to relax before OBtwo stats.
my group was made of eight small groups of five and they al have showen a great talent in the presetations they shared. serious talents. wow. all kinds of tools showed how much these people can work together. talents in acting singin dancing and painting.
we worked on metaphore and meaning in graoups that are muticultural and how much these mataphores affect positivly or negativaly the group process and the groupe dynaics. and a lot of other things i d not want to talk about right now so you do notsuffer as well.
now that all this is finished you can relax as welland al the world can go back towork. sounds like Ramadan to me wjen every ine waits for this holly month to finish before they could think of what to do. all the questions ave one answer: 'we will talk about this after ramadan/OB1.
and people can be as mean as they want and it is all Ok. they must tired and stressed because of ramadane/obione.
people stay hungtry for all day and they get stressed and they get " les ners" ohhh waaaa and they can become a little bit violent. inside most of the times. you can call it stress if you wish.
now when people finish their papers and submit them they will sucrifice the time and they icon of togetherness like aid elkebeer for the god of Ob. inshallah.          

30 May 2005

Some PCVs know better...

HOW ATLAS MEN MARRY
Chatting up single women all over the world

Once....
The Peace Corps was created in 1961, by President Kennedy, both to assist in international development and to foster better understanding in the world through the work of U. S. Volunteers living among the peoples of developing nations. ( a bit more)

Now ...
an example of understanding this world...

"[in Morocco]... Marriage has always been more of a contract than a joining of souls...
There are certain things a man is supposed to do, certain things a woman is supposed to do, and if they can both do them successfully the deal is half done. They marry for the idea of what kind of life they will have with their spouse rather than how much they love one another. Love comes later, if at all."

therefore...

Read about how moroccans use cyberspace to "hunt" for american "brides" .
The findings os a Specialized Small Business PCV. Published in The WorldView Magazine.

26 May 2005

Style Guide for Online Writing



Michelle Klemens is has very interesting blog about:

Style Guide for Online Writing

Formulating an online writing style guide is an important aspect of developing and maintaining a Web site or blog. The style guide not only serves as a guide for the online writer, but also serves as a map to the reader offering both familiarity and continuity. For the purposes of this class, we have been asked to construct our own online style guide to help support the upcoming research project.

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