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Christmas Chaos--Well, Chaos-ish
... been started off with all of us opening English Crackers and putting on the paper crowns (see photo), dessert was followed by an extremely lame, but hilarious, attempt to play the Can-Can on the whistles included in the crackers. Each person got a different size whistle (numbered, helpfully), and one person read off the code from the enclosed sheet music You know the thing: 1-1-4-3 5-5-7. This was attempted three or four times, with ...
Day 50: EARTHQUAKE and Paul Simon
... mixtures of things recorded from the radio, or snippets of favourite albums through the years.
The distinct tamber of Ladysmith Black Mambazo came through the speakers.....they were singing 'Homeless' from the .... it was followed by 'Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes' - probably one of my all time favourite songs, which describes the relationships that developed despite men leaving their homes to go and work in the gold mines of Johannesburg (eGoli). One more song ...
Day 28: Is cooking for 60 people a mistake?
... around and saw a huge cool box full of (thankfully defrosted) burgers, sausages and chicken... WOW - that was going to take a while. Oh well.... now let's take a look at the fire....
My heart sank - the fire was pretty much non-existent, which was odd as I had seen large flames when I had arrived 15 minutes earlier.
'FFFFFFFFFFFfffffffffffffffff' - a bright light flashed past my face..... ****!
I turned to see a girl pouring lighter fluid over the few coals ...
Mother Teresa never made it to Delhi.
... were in need of a leg stretch and a cuppa so I left it to Mr Garmin to find us an appropriate stop which turned out to be Delhi, no not the one on the Indian Sub Continent. With a name like The Perfect Blend we couldn't go wrong, the coffee was good, the people friendly, the decor Early American Eclectic, nothing else required! The United Nations had been through Dehli lately and the owner commented on the number of overseas people coming through. I said if you were looking for a coffee ...
Day 23: The Protests Begin
... you could feel it when walking through Lower Sproul plaza. Chalk had been used to write large mesages on the pavement.
'No to 82% tuition fee hikes'
Apparently, the cost of attending Berkeley has been slowly rising over the past few years. Berkeley, unlike some of the other top universities in the Califronia system (Standford for example), are a public university - meaning that they are meant to be low cost, or even ...



