Life needs change.

 

CONSPIRACY THEORY #20050126

i think as an artsy i kinda get short-changed. while i fork over the same amount as everyone else for tuition, i spend so much less tangible time in the classroom. i guess in a sense you can see it as the beginnings of ideas and certain thought processes that are long-term… but then don’t people in other disciplines also have these same benefits? why should i have to pay to learn independently?  i don’t get it.

 

this is SO SO SO lame. i had to drink hot water while i was working out this morning. all of you know my disdain for stationary machines… i was doing my weights workout and as time progressed my fingers got colder and cold and colder. so i went up to james, ‘hey uhh james are you going to have tea any time soon? could i get some hot water?’ how pathetic is that?

 

i’m SO full. i’m about to explode… but at the same time i still want to eat. so me and mariko went to eat mina’s fave noodle in soup with duck. MMMMMMMMmmmmMMMMMM! SO GOOD! but SO full… but it’s that liquidy full… not necessarily a food full. what a dilemma. and i have a twitch in my left eye… fabulous.

 

ok. i watched a short documentary film about sierra leone called ‘cry freetown.’the gentleman giving out the flyers in the ‘library square’ the open space in front of the library steps, is a refugee from ghana. he’s the leader of the organization ‘friends of africa society’ and he’s a very charismatic figure. if he tries to return to ghana he’d be killed. he left the country with a bounty on his head. well he gave a flyer to ileana as we were walking to the library and my friend christian happened to be there too. he said that it’s a great documentary, and it’s also really depressing. but i thought… well it looks interesting… why not? and i figured what with all my recent whining i needed something to put me in my place.

 

sorius samura, now works for unicef metinks and he documented the rebels entering freetown, sierra leone in 1999. the rebels went around killing and amputating people because they literally took the right to vote from people by cutting their hands so they could no longer use a ballot. he spoke of the diamonds that were sought that caused much of this turmoil. and like most exploited peoples, the people of sierra leone will never be able to afford, let alone see a diamond that a westerner would. it was short. it was violent. it was the kind of thing that sticks in your mind a long time afterwards. my crappy command of the english language doesn’t do it any justice of course, but it was so raw. as the rebels forces advanced, the nigerian troops entered. the seed of democracy was planted, but once they actually wanted a democracy, the democratic nations wouldn’t help. the nigerian troops were part of a unit of african militia that acts like a mini-un within africa along with other african armies. he filmed this part where there was a sniper inside a building that was killing many of the nigerian soldiers and when they were finally able to get inside the building they found a little boy. a doctor had intervened on his behalf, else he would’ve been killed by the troops like the other person who was found near this building.  this child moses was only 12. i’m crying as a write this, and i normally hate children, but why and how can people do this? a year later samura visited the orphanage specially created for these children and the boy moses was there. this child is SO damaged it’s like he’s mentally handicapped. it’s sad that the nigerian troops couldn’t even trust ANY of the children that they saw because so many of them were kidnapped, drugged and forced to be these killing machines for the rebel forces. children are supposed to be innocent, THEY are the ones that we’re supposed to protect. all this for a stupid rock. ha! diamond is my birthstone.

 

 i remember reading an article in a magazine about how a diamond can be made out of ashes. so say aunt bessie dies, you can now send her ashes to this laboratory somewhere in the states and they can make a diamond out of her. i remember a lot of people saying that that was pretty morbid, gross, etc etc. well, what’s worse? aunt bessie or the lives of children, the limbs of people and the morale of a nation?

 

i know this is going on elsewhere in the world for the benefit of the west, i knew this was going on in sierra leone. and when this ghanian gentleman brought this up as an obvious issue in front of a panel for a teacher’s association it was of course eclipsed by the tsunami disaster. he said that an asian, who’d lost family in the recent disaster asked the rest of the teachers to consider the issue not only in sierra leone, but most of africa. he asked why should it matter HOW a child dies, whether it be by war, tsunami whatever. if the media were to make this a pressing issue then we now see that the average citizen, more than the gov’t is willing to give money or support any cause that seems to be pressing and harrowing enough. so why isn’t this important enough?

 

agent orange

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