These are the things you must learn.*
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bending_sickle*sips delicious hibiscus infusion* *admires blood-red infusion* *sips again* *congratulates self on most excellent purchase*
I saw a flexible piano keyboard today. *covets*
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ninth_wonders. Ditto for the Science Stick FGJ.**
Today in class (Biodiversity and Society) we watched a film about "indigenous peoples and the discourse on rights" (as today's prof put it). Apart from making me terribly homseick for places-which-are-not-home, I got to hear Spanish again and I've confirmed that I absolutely adore the East African English accent. I've just figured out why that may be (because I'm that slow): I like it 'cause I knew it. I grew up (for a given value of "up") on it.
About the film:
I greatly enjoyed listening to what His Majesty Devasish Roy, King (Raj) of the Chakma in Bangladesh, had to say.
My Dutch classmates were vastly amused at being able to understand the Bushwoman's interview (even I got some of it), as she spoke Africaans. And that's just awesome.
Random film quotes:
"Even the people who wear animal skins drink instant coffee." - South African indigenous person
"These are the things you must learn." - Bushwoman teaching her grandchildren about the bush
"It is what I had to go through." - "nature-living revival" Yanayacu member (which seems to have evolved quite a bit since the film was made)
"As it was, so it will be, and we will keep it so until the end." (approx.) - Bushwoman
"We have to coexist, but that doesn't mean we have to accept things which aren't just." - H.M. Devasish Roy
Links of the Day:
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cleolinda helps out projectdownload by offering The Golden Compass in Fifteen Minutes as a Megaupload download on Erin's account. Rememeber that it's one IP address per day that counts towards projectdownload, so click appropriately and enjoy. (Unless you're like me and have yet to see the film, then click and postpone the enjoyment for later.)
El negre de Banyoles, "a controversial piece of taxidermy of a bushman", now buried.
N!Xau, from All the Gods Must be Crazy
* Bushwoman-whose-name-I-didn't-write-down, Film-whose-title-we-never-saw
** I am a filthy, filthy liar. And lazy. But neat.
I saw a flexible piano keyboard today. *covets*
ninth_wonders. Ditto for the Science Stick FGJ.Today in class (Biodiversity and Society) we watched a film about "indigenous peoples and the discourse on rights" (as today's prof put it). Apart from making me terribly homseick for places-which-are-not-home, I got to hear Spanish again and I've confirmed that I absolutely adore the East African English accent. I've just figured out why that may be (because I'm that slow): I like it 'cause I knew it. I grew up (for a given value of "up") on it.
About the film:
I greatly enjoyed listening to what His Majesty Devasish Roy, King (Raj) of the Chakma in Bangladesh, had to say.
My Dutch classmates were vastly amused at being able to understand the Bushwoman's interview (even I got some of it), as she spoke Africaans. And that's just awesome.
Random film quotes:
"Even the people who wear animal skins drink instant coffee." - South African indigenous person
"These are the things you must learn." - Bushwoman teaching her grandchildren about the bush
"It is what I had to go through." - "nature-living revival" Yanayacu member (which seems to have evolved quite a bit since the film was made)
"As it was, so it will be, and we will keep it so until the end." (approx.) - Bushwoman
"We have to coexist, but that doesn't mean we have to accept things which aren't just." - H.M. Devasish Roy
Links of the Day:
cleolinda helps out projectdownload by offering The Golden Compass in Fifteen Minutes as a Megaupload download on Erin's account. Rememeber that it's one IP address per day that counts towards projectdownload, so click appropriately and enjoy. (Unless you're like me and have yet to see the film, then click and postpone the enjoyment for later.)El negre de Banyoles, "a controversial piece of taxidermy of a bushman", now buried.
N!Xau, from All the Gods Must be Crazy
* Bushwoman-whose-name-I-didn't-write-down, Film-whose-title-we-never-saw
** I am a filthy, filthy liar. And lazy. But neat.
