Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Plugin Folder In Simcity 4

5 days without electricity

Hello, So this time

truce blabber, here are some nice pictures!

Sunday past turtle (right) and parrot (left) invited me to their meeting and offered me the headscarf of their group, the scout model.

Here is a little of me with Pri-Pri daughter of Mama Helen

Here is the show "Africa is Lobi" which toured to Switzerland (Marin) and return to Congo was performed for 30 years Lisenga.

Yves Here, the bassist of death that often goes with us is a friend Martine (Mom's sister, Helen).

Here are Congolese children living in an area a little more rural, a place where we will stroll Matthew and me.

The rest of the rural area is full of small super well maintained gardens, ponds and nice people, really less aggressive than in the city. They plant cassava, sweet potatoes, papaya ...

Here a young Richard that I deal.

Another William ... lePacha!



And finally Kinshasa by night!

Earlier this week I've been brutally attacked by a mosquito on! Okay I have a little scratched. So it was infected with the sand, dust, flies and my swollen foot. I went to the hospital, and after being weighed, the temperature took me, my blood pressure, making me spend an extensive questionnaire about my family, if I was diabetic, how many brother and sister had , since when I drink alcohol, what type of beer, my diet ..... he auscultated my foot. Diagnosis: Infection of the foot he put me on antibiotics. I must still ask me to redo it a dressing before leaving! Then I do a blood test in the "lab" a small room all decrepit, good but the needle is sterile, what more!
Now it's good, my foot deflated, they are not so bad these hospitals Congolese.

Special dedication to Eva and Dimitri the Lulus, thank you for your message, it makes me really happy!

Big thinking about all the little chnarifflets Festi'neuch who will go to, it might be great. But hey we can not do everything-plus.

Big kisses to all. Jean-Yves

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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Keeps it's been three months! The course

Hello,

Then this course CP / SP not exactly like it's finally here! Indeed, it did not take place on Sunday evening as planned because the leaders were invited to a ceremony promise of another group. Here for ceremonies promise, they invite a lot of scouts and that this happens during worship.

So the rate to rise the next day and I met talkative parrot, 60 years of Scouting, which tells me his scouting life, exciting, the end of colonialism where Scouting was living its golden age, the dictatorship under Mobutu, who did not see a very good eye this youth movement does not adhere to its ideology. By this time Mobutu establishes an authoritarian one-party, "Popular Movement for the Revolution" with of course his youth movement contributing to political propaganda, it's the end of many scout groups.

Then independence in 1960, which gives the opportunity for young people to find themselves under the name Scout. Currently, it seems that the scout movement is still fragile and poorly organized. They have a national and provincial levels but appear to have very few resources. Parrot explain his efforts to convey his experience and his knowledge of the movement to younger generations.

Then after 2 hours, the troop leader arrives with his PC, for the delay is like the job, it has become almost normal for me, and they begin. They talk about the uniforms, they must buy the fabric and then go to the tailor. They will parade during the celebration of the 50 th anniversary of independence on June 30 and moved me to march with them ... I do not know yet, a national holiday in a city of 10 million people where in the more they are celebrating the departure of the settlers. It makes me a little freak! Then they organize patrols "antelope", "lions", " ostriches "as it is rather exotic names! Finally they invite me to participate in the recognition of their summer vacation camp (here it's not summer, but the dry season). A day of walking through the rainforest with a river view as it promises to be great.


C’est a great experience during which I do not feel this barrier due to the color of my skin, which is not the case in the street where I feel some discrimination. What touches me in the discrimination that I experienced is that people (not all of course) not only interested in who I am but what I represent for them, ie white, rich, Chinese, colon ...


If the work takes me much time, it is the rush there. I put up a project intervention with a young staff to review his coming exams, but especially by Bied this activity, allow him to try to regain his skills. I feel it is ripe! Otherwise I do another project in which I host the meeting in which I small they can work their esteem, their image them, their identity. Not easy when one has been abandoned by his parents and we spent several years of his life in the street! And finally my third project is to be co-referent group in a semi-open. Yeah it's loaded, but exciting. Especially I still have two weeks of work then two weeks holiday egg, then a month of work with project evaluation and review period.




This is another small photo of Matthew with Timothy, a child Bakolé. There will be a good dad Is not it!


Jean-Yves

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Picnik Sayings For Sisters

CP / SP Congolese

Hello,


Sorry if I have not written much lately, but I had a lot of work.


Last Tuesday, during our holiday, we went "shopping" downtown. And then came the shock! Indeed, the shop is air-conditioned stalls are filled with products of international brands and prices are two times higher than in Switzerland. The contrast is violent, there are more expats here than I have yet seen for two months. Even the music style pan flute is tasteless. Some products make me feel like maybe because they remind me of Switzerland indecent but the price makes me give up. Here I notice how I'm conditioned by the Western consumer society and its aggressive marketing led to the death. While I do consider myself not as addicted to consumption, but nevertheless part of this system, the point was brutal and remember how I hate this system.


Wednesday we went to visit the training center of higher social educators in Kinshasa. We present the director, then forcing African hospitality, we go around classes (4) each with thirty students where every time we interrupt the teacher, students are presented as the Swiss, explain who we are and what we doing here and the teacher asks us some questions. The psychology teacher asked us what we have struck cultural aspects here and what has changed in our personality since our arrival. So now the whole center is aware!

Then we go into the office of head teacher who asks how he can do for us. After introducing himself, he invites us to return to participate in analysis of practice, what we accept. Then he talks about his approach to the problem of street children, its causes and ways to remedy them. It has a very clear and comprehensive the problem. It is for individual care and monitoring children's psychological. I am quite of that opinion, because with these children would first work on their history, their abandonment, they have suffered in the street and the behaviors they were able to learn their afford to accept it and work on their life projects. Giving them food and shelter is already a lot but unfortunately that is not enough. Finally he deplores the lack of institutions.


You will not believe it, but nice turtle asked me to participate in CP / SP it organizes in collaboration with three scouts! And that will take place the weekend of climbing, as with us. Damn, I have already animated full course CP / SP in Switzerland and I'm gonna do it here it'll be too cool! He described the program and a lot like what we do here, patrol management, commitment, technical Scout ... remains to be seen whether the parties are happening as we do!


That, I think well of you and time is running out is crazy. So full of kisses and the next for new adventures.

Jean-Yves