A walk around the Ghiraia Complex ...
Ghiraia Walking around the Complex ...
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Deaf Man In The Shteeble Chords
Meetings ... Meeting
A walk around the Ghiraia Complex ...
Ghiraia Walking around the Complex ...
A walk around the Ghiraia Complex ...
Ghiraia Walking around the Complex ...
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Recognition Day Welcome Address
the ancient heart of black Africa
Africa and 'the ancestral cradle of the human being.
Africa: a large area at least ten times in Europe, 50 states that are home to more than 10000 2000 languages \u200b\u200band dialects, 700 million people ranging from fatalism endogenous and exogenous pietism.
The Africa of shared guilt, slavery and colonization, the big men fathers today's masters of entire nations, denied the genocide and failed states , the scourge of AIDS and children soldier.
Black Africa is often portrayed that all points of view, or the opposite mythologized without objectivity of the great number of patients that calls Grill africafilia terminal state.
I never believed in the dichotomy, and this wonderful and long summer will allow me to get rid of another big tapestry Manichean, that of the black continent, if I even hoped to snatch some shade, I have to point to the heart.
And for many the heart of Africa is the only country on the European colonialists winner (against an Italy at Adowa in disarray), the residence of the Queen of Sheba and later the legendary Prester John, the land on which our oldest ancestor is found.
I leave for Ethiopia tomorrow I'll get to Addis Ababa on Tuesday morning, in the middle of the rainy season.
By Jaka, run in the summer of 2008 from Cuba, is expected to forty days to savor, share, take full advantage of telling without mediation.
My depart from Addis Ababa Ethiopia, but will move soon to the plateau of the historic circuit, continue towards the Muslim east, finally come to the endless savannahs in the South populated by tribes of hunters and gatherers. All this crossing inhospitable deserts where faranj (white man) is not always welcome, on mountains, which spurs lurk Coptic monasteries, lakes where crocodiles gather colonies of the Nile.
In short, the adrenaline will be a cornerstone of the journey, but without wishing to risk accepting the idea that Ethiopia is not Iceland.
The first trauma is already a major blow: Novel by Benjamin Button are all younger than ten years rasandomi shave for hygiene reasons, and I have yet to accept my appearance teenager found.
But it will soon go into the background to understand why Africa's priorities will be Africans, carrying a priceless treasure trove of oral culture. As I once told a dear friend from Ghana, in Africa dies every time an elder is like burning a library.
But the Romans - possibly ignoring - they wrote on the maps at the continent under the Mediterranean hic sunt leones : there are only the lions.
declare war on the dichotomy of the millennium, and I dive from Tuesday nell'Etiopia that will help me to understand a little 'of this huge mosaic of peoples, colors and stories.
In the ancient heart of black Africa.
A hug Amharic
Tommy 
Africa and 'the ancestral cradle of the human being. Africa: a large area at least ten times in Europe, 50 states that are home to more than 10000 2000 languages \u200b\u200band dialects, 700 million people ranging from fatalism endogenous and exogenous pietism.
The Africa of shared guilt, slavery and colonization, the big men fathers today's masters of entire nations, denied the genocide and failed states , the scourge of AIDS and children soldier.
Black Africa is often portrayed that all points of view, or the opposite mythologized without objectivity of the great number of patients that calls Grill africafilia terminal state.
I never believed in the dichotomy, and this wonderful and long summer will allow me to get rid of another big tapestry Manichean, that of the black continent, if I even hoped to snatch some shade, I have to point to the heart.
And for many the heart of Africa is the only country on the European colonialists winner (against an Italy at Adowa in disarray), the residence of the Queen of Sheba and later the legendary Prester John, the land on which our oldest ancestor is found.
I leave for Ethiopia tomorrow I'll get to Addis Ababa on Tuesday morning, in the middle of the rainy season.
By Jaka, run in the summer of 2008 from Cuba, is expected to forty days to savor, share, take full advantage of telling without mediation.
My depart from Addis Ababa Ethiopia, but will move soon to the plateau of the historic circuit, continue towards the Muslim east, finally come to the endless savannahs in the South populated by tribes of hunters and gatherers. All this crossing inhospitable deserts where faranj (white man) is not always welcome, on mountains, which spurs lurk Coptic monasteries, lakes where crocodiles gather colonies of the Nile.
In short, the adrenaline will be a cornerstone of the journey, but without wishing to risk accepting the idea that Ethiopia is not Iceland.
The first trauma is already a major blow: Novel by Benjamin Button are all younger than ten years rasandomi shave for hygiene reasons, and I have yet to accept my appearance teenager found.
But it will soon go into the background to understand why Africa's priorities will be Africans, carrying a priceless treasure trove of oral culture. As I once told a dear friend from Ghana, in Africa dies every time an elder is like burning a library.
But the Romans - possibly ignoring - they wrote on the maps at the continent under the Mediterranean hic sunt leones : there are only the lions.
declare war on the dichotomy of the millennium, and I dive from Tuesday nell'Etiopia that will help me to understand a little 'of this huge mosaic of peoples, colors and stories.
In the ancient heart of black Africa.
A hug Amharic
Tommy
Sunday, August 9, 2009
How Do I Wash My Hat Without Ruining The Shape
PETIT A STAY A LONG SERIES OF STROKES
from the Arctic to the Mediterranean, with no stops.
islands still are, but between Iceland and Corsica lag distances to read anything.
islands still are, but between Iceland and Corsica lag distances to read anything.
not It is the kind of trip would never have done if I had chosen: the right goal but the wrong time, just the company but different expectations, not just the route but decided to pursue the optimal car. In spite of everything ', mediation e'valsa punishment: Negin has not only allowed to take a nice vacation with her sister (piu'consorte), two dear friends and her boyfriend, but has also offered the possibility to myself' back al viaggio con il buon vecchio Lollo (anche se i fasti latinoamericani sono ancora lontani, relativamente piu´tranquilli come ormai ci crogioliamo di essere...ma sara´vero?).
E seppur le concessioni al viaggio estivo di gruppo siano state campeggi spesso sovraffollati (almeno ai miei occhi, forse viziati dalle deserte lande islandesi), prezzi maggiorati e ridotto contatto con la popolazione locale, le conquiste sindacali da me ottenute (viaggio itinerante in tenda dai costi ridotti al minimo indispensabile, piu´suddivisione funzionale delle attivita´: a chi piace la lucertolite passiva la spiaggia, a chi la odia -come il sottoscritto- l´auto per visitare l´isola) hanno fatto si che I have enjoyed his time in Corsica also piu'glamour.
Corsica A bleak and harsh at times, but mostly covered by Mediterranean maquis (the maquis, en francais), which gives it smells, looks and tastes, and that the interior is transformed into beautiful forest montana. A sea and sun of Corsica constant, but also landscapes of granite to be conquered along the famous streets ran from the corners overlooking the infinite sea.
We were able to dive in the waves but also in his past (the impressive standing stones carved megalithic era Filitosa), to enjoy its beaches but also its architectural wealth (Whose flagship e'Bonifacio, perched on the cliff so as not to stand by it), to hear the silent underwater flora and its inhabitants (the turtles housed at the center "Cupulatta," the research and protection piu'grande of tortoises in Europe), and to discover the secrets of its bays as its peaks (the picturesque stone village of Ota and the wonderful rock formations that frame the sunset on Calanches ocher of the Plan).
And do not forget our side eternally adolescent, we also granted an afternoon at the Adventure Park Forest Vizzavona: a series of raised walks (up to 25 meters high) crumbling among trees, divided levels in difficolta'e be done with the help of ubiquitous rescue carabiners. Bridges, lianas, pulleys and suspended nets: the first adolescent e'invecchiato very quickly, and to those like me who suffer from vertigo began to suffer from tachycardia.
La Corse, enfin: a land of strange story, but never won more subdued (as attested by the silent witnesses of a rebellion never dormant, such as road signs riddled with bullet holes, or the Moor's head symbol of the island whose adhesive covers F of France under the stars of the European Union on local license plates of cars), but able to give us-but with discretion to ten days of precious memories.
And do not forget our side eternally adolescent, we also granted an afternoon at the Adventure Park Forest Vizzavona: a series of raised walks (up to 25 meters high) crumbling among trees, divided levels in difficolta'e be done with the help of ubiquitous rescue carabiners. Bridges, lianas, pulleys and suspended nets: the first adolescent e'invecchiato very quickly, and to those like me who suffer from vertigo began to suffer from tachycardia.
La Corse, enfin: a land of strange story, but never won more subdued (as attested by the silent witnesses of a rebellion never dormant, such as road signs riddled with bullet holes, or the Moor's head symbol of the island whose adhesive covers F of France under the stars of the European Union on local license plates of cars), but able to give us-but with discretion to ten days of precious memories.
And now? There are in Bavaria, this spieghero'anche soon.
Meanwhile, Big hugs to brocciu (cheese course that put just about anywhere)
Tommy
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