It has been quite a while since I last wrote a piece here. I have started a few times, but somehow always ran out of steam and deleted the whole thing.
It's 2007 now, getting older, so I was especially pleased when I was asked for my ID when I went to an Irish bar with Pearl in early January. Now I do not take it as an insult, but make a point of thanking the person for his / her kindness. Apparently, according to Pearl's ex-flatmate, who suffers from all sorts of anger management issues and fits of French rudeness, I am younger than her, which makes me smile and Pearl frown!!! :)
I booked tickets today with my sister to fly to Nairobi in May to forget the sorrows / insanity / and drunken stupor of writing a dissertation. According to some travellers, Nairobi can quickly turn into 'Nairobery' so must remember to keep one hand on the vodka - coke and the other one on the prosti.... wallet. Sensibility above all. I am very hyped about this trip, going to check out the local transport in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia, revisiting places of our childhood and catching a mind-blowing safari to top it off. So for all this, like every artist knows, one has to suffer for one's art.... well not really a similar case, as its more like 'one must suffer for one's travels' as there is a lovely butch local nurse name Margaret who is looking forward to stabbing me with all sorts of needles. I hear the vaccination for rabies is pure cement. I was too young and stupid to keep a correspondence going with any of my friends from back then, but my sister Reetta has been better at it and we are hopefully going to meet a few of these people from the past. Excellent!!!
A story that caught my eye, which did not, however make the nightly TV news in Britain was about the Spanish courts issue international arrest orders for 3 American soldiers accused and cleared by the US Military for shooting at the Palestine Hotel, in Baghdad, where most of the Western media were staying. The 3 soldiers used their tank on the hotel and killed a Spanish cameraman and a Ukrainian cameraman in the process. They claimed that they were being shot at from the direction of the hotel, which was proved not to be the case earlier on but the soldiers were cleared of any wrong doing nevertheless. It is very unlikely of course that the US government will agree to extradite these soldiers to stand trial for the murder of these cameramen, but I agree with letting the world know exactly what the US military got up to in Iraq, all in the name of democracy and freedom.
Having a party here on Saturday. This soap - opera group that I was made part of when I joined the Erasmus Mundus over a year ago in dreadful Aarhus, is meeting up for the last time at our house. So all the tension and back stabbing that you see in every episode of The Bold and the Beautiful will take place here. If there isn't at least one fight, one stupidly drunk and one attempt at stabbing the neighbour's cat, it will be so disappointing. I cannot wait. *evil evil grin*
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