there is always a next time..................

How was church, Omoba?

it was very good. I got a spanking .........kind of.

Uh oh. Did it hurt?

Nagishkaw, my sister, you have been visiting now and then here in the cafe but I wanted to give you an official welcome to the sub-saharan
cafe and forum and hope you will be a more permanent poster here with your north AFRICAN man.



It's gonna hurt following through

Thank you! I accept your warm welcome.

You will have to tell me about it...Im soon leaving for evening service. We are getting into Revelation, finally!

It's good to have sisters in Christ on board. Hey Nagishkaw, how was evening service? Mine was fantastic.




Mmm hmm. I hear ya.

Kind of like growing pains

You got that right.

The service was very leisure, as we sat around ( the small bunch that we are ) and ate donuts and drank coffee while the pastor preached on Is. chapter 30 and a bit into Revelation. He said we are now seeing Revelation 5 coming to pass in this present day and age. So, I will say it was very interesting.
Thanks for the welcome, sister nopalavar.

g'morning everyone.

Happy Moanday and good Morning.....How is everyone?

Here we are again, yet ANOTHER rainy, dreary, dismal day outside. Maybe I will get some house cleaning done.

Good Morning, guys!

Good morning everyone!

My sisters decided on Friday that they are coming Wednesday for the holiday weekend...I need to be cleaning not working

Good morning, Asante Maroon and Z !
Yeah, you better get cracking...I know I need to but it's so hard to get motivated.....especially on a Monday.

Morning All, welcome Nagi

Morning, am not quiet awake yet.

Good morning to you too, Nagi. Welcome!

Zee, would it be wrong for me to say that I am off today.... until the end of August

I know I am dead wrong...but I am so thrilled!!! Running after my students all day for almost a year, wore me out and drove me insane !!! My school was trying to get me to teach summer school and I said "Heck no!" I could have used the money though .

But not to worry...I share in your pain...I am in summer school ...so I am constantly on the PC doing all kinds of papers! Now school work...is wearing me out! 16 weeks of school crammed into 8 weeks

My true vacation will be about three weeks in August. Then I will be chillin

Any other teachers out there???

Chispas is a teacher but she has been MIA.

Thank you, Perseverance!

Yes, I miss Chispas, too. I hope she is doing ok.

I'm going to send her a pm...hopefully she responds

I was just going to ask if anyone has tried to PM her.

I PMed her but NADA.....

I hope we did not somehow offend....

As I recall, she was going through a lot of crap. Maybe she needed a break, or is just too busy? Im guessing, of course. I just hope things are not worse.

maybe no internet access unless school is going on.

I emailed her, no response.

perhpas we should all "storm" her PM box and let her know she is loved and missed....

Good morning, ya'll! Welcome, NAGISHKAW!




I know how you feel! I've only been in summer school for a month and I already had Midterms...what the??

The things we go through in order to advance...

Hey there, L. L. !! Thank you kindly for the welcome.

Nagi said that this was the place to be and there are some pretty cool ppl in here.

Tell me about it.



You're welcome!



LOL, I guess we are pretty cool, huh? Welcome!

Thx! Hey Liberia! I may have some awesome news concerning Liberia here soon. I don't find out for sure until sometime in July for confirmation but I'm on a committee that is bring the Liberian president to speak at our symposium.

UGH PETER is being evil today!! He is taking pictures of me with his nerdberry and is going to send them to someone in another one of our offices....I must retaliate

LL maybe I will send you a pic of him after all for photoshopping him into the fierce diva outfit.

He is the devil!!!! He made this guy in our other office think that I like him!! He is soooo going to pay for this.

Oooh really? Can one little birdie let another little birdie in on the secret? I'm always keeping up to date on the foreign affairs there so this possible awesome news sounds exciting. Where is the symposium being held?



ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFLLLL! He IS being evil. I really want to see a picture of him. I feel like I know him like a best friend, rofl.

L.L.,

I think Olivia left for a few hours to go take a nap. Hopefully, she will get back with you and provide the info.

hey all, and Nagi, I thought you were a regular, my bad. I just assumed you had "keys" to the house and knew your way around. Welcome and please make yourself at home along with Olivia.
Toodles
UNO

Thanks, Uno. Well, I wasnt a real regular, but would pop in on occasion. But now I want to join this cafe and be part of the fun.

Thanks for the welcome!

LL - It's called the Borah Symposium at the University of Idaho. It's an annual 3-5 day event where we discuss the causes of war and the pathes to peace. Each year the committee discusses all the options and what theme we want to put on. This year I was lucky enough to be selected for the committee as one of four student. It's made up of eight faculty and four students. We were looking at brining the Liberian President to talk or the Nicaraguan President. We got the call from the Liberian President first that she is doing some kind of book tour in the US about the same time our symposium is next year and would we like her to come. So our committee discussed it and made an offer to her and now we're waiting until July to know for sure if she is come.

In the meantime this documentary film about Liberia was recommended for us to watch. It gives me goosebumps and chills.

http://www.praythedevilbacktohell.com/

Thank you Olivia, this is an awesome film, I would like to view it. My SO 's lives close to the Liberian border in Sierra Leone.






Leave it to you Uno to come up with the right way to put it.....
She has the keys now.

Wow Omoba! One of the chilling things about this selection is the child warriors or soldier children. I'd really love to hear the LP speak about it at the Symposium. However, the committee all has to agree on the subject matter and until the keynote speaker is selected then we can't pick exactally what the theme will be.

The blood diamond in Sierra Leone was brought up in discussion in relations to Liberia and the soldier children.

Yes, it was pure hell for a decade in Sierra Leone and extreme poverty and weak infrastructure is still the reality.
There are thousands of amputees, ex child soldiers are roaming the streets, the country is trying to rehabilitate them and had some success with that but many children still are so emotionally wounded.
The atrocities were unthinkable.

So how can I watch this film, will it ever be made available for regular distribution ?

Yes. Maybe that could be a theme: The Rehabilitation of a Country.




I am unsure if it's avaliable for regular distribution but you might try your local video stores documentary selection and if they don't have it request it. Maybe it's avaliable for purchse online?

" The Rehabilitation of a Country " holds a hopeful perspective towards a positive outcome as a theme.


How do I go about getting this film shown in a community setting, how do I get in contact with a person who will show it in my town ?

I believe at that site there is contact information on the right hand side for selection. Then you can go from there.

Wow, it's exciting that she called you guys up. I hope the coordination of all of that works out. That movie looks very interesting and I will look into getting a copy of it myself. I hope I don't cry when I see it.