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1.
Mothers & Daugthers by
Lauren Cowen and Jayne Wexler
What
a beautiful book, the stories are amazing! It's like watching a documentary
2.
Unbowed: A Memoir by Wangair Maathai
I couldn't
be more impressed! What a woman!
3.
The Choice by Nicholas Sparks
This
book is good, but I liked and had enjoyed Dear John more!
4.
Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
I finished reading this book! It was good, it made me think a lot about
life, love and my father.
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July
19, 2008
Yesterday, I woke up with one of my leg hurting. It was hurting so much,
I couldn't even put it down to walk. The sharp pain was coming from my
hip joint. It was so painful that when I try to walk I was in tears. I
was so surprised, because I didn't do much that can hurt my knee this
bad. I day before, I played DDR but that went normal and beside the soreness
I felt on my body, nothing else seemed unusually. During the afternoon,
I walked from the house to the nearby store and from the store back to
the house with Kauna on my back, but I have done that many times before.
The walk is about 15 minutes each way. So, in the morning, C suggested
that he takes me to see a Dr, which we did. She too was amazed on how
much pain I was in. She suggested that I go for an x-ray, which I did
and that came out fine, she couldn't see anything wrong with my hips.
She thought that maybe I had some inflammation around my hip joint, so
she wrote me a prescription for some medicine to help with that.
I got home, took one of the the medicine and fall asleep. When I woke
up from a three hour nap, to my surprise, I could walk normal and didn't
feel any pain, nothing..the pain was all gone. I was very surprised. My
theory is that, one of my ligaments was probably out of place or something
like that and the small walk I did, getting to the hospital and back helped
it get back into place. Definitely, it wasn't the medicine and I don't
think I had an inflammation at my hip joint as she thought. My family
jokingly said I'm just like my grandmother. I was just healed by seeing
a Dr. A day before, we were talking about how my grandmother likes Doctors
and how she is usually fine once she sees one.
life is beautiful again
July
9, 2008
Recently I traveled to Maryland with my family to visit our American parents.
I was so worried about traveling with my two little ones, a toddler and
an infant. I was thinking a lot about how things were going to go wrong
and how the trip is going to be hard. I then remember that my thoughts
were too negative and I was definitely attracting some negative energy
toward myself. I was too much worried, it's like somebody grantee me that
things were going to go wrong. I then thought that things will go wrong
if I wanted it to go wrong, so right then, I told myself that I was going
to think positive about everything. I thought that Penda will have fun
traveling, he will be excited about flying, being in the airport and seeing
the planes again. And baby Kauna is going to sleep a lot through the trip
and not cry much. I told Penda a night before that the next morning we
were going to go visit his Grandparents and how we were going to (travel)
get there. I told him all about the journey, how we were going to drive
to the airport and then get into a train in the airport which will take
us to the plane and then we will fly to another airport and then get into
a car and drive to Grandpa and Grandma's house. He was so excited, when
he woke up, the first thing he said was, "We are going to Grandpa and
Grandma's house. He was so excited that he didn't even want to have any
breakfast. We drove to the airport, got in the train, and then take that
very long flight, almost 6 hours. He did so well and was so excited, he
repeated things, like "We are now in the train, we are now flying, and
we're driving to Grandpa and Grandma's house". Through the whole
trip, he got to nap for about 20 minutes only, which shows how excited
he was. Kauna slept almost through the whole flight too. I had to wake
her up for lunch, but after that she fall asleep again until we landed.
Coming back was a little harder, but not as hard as I imagined. We had
so much fun! Penda asked to go to his Grandparent's house twice today
and cried when I said we were going to Trade Joe's to buy food instead.
So, remember to always think positive, things might end up just that way!
We
visited a beautiful butterfly gardern in MD, here is Penda pointing at
some butterfly that are eating
June 27, 2008 
Baby
Kauna is two months old today. She is growing well and doing great. She
is starting to smile, stare in our eyes and vocalize a bit.
June 15, 2008
On
this Father's day, I'm remembering my father and wishing a happy father's
day to my wonderful husband, the father of my children!
My father
Was
small and short, just like me
Was an intellegent man
Very kind, warm and loving
Spent most of his life in exile, Zambia
Spoke Oshimbandja, English, Kwangali, Lozi and Nyanja
I knew him for only 6 months
I miss him and love you Tate!!
June 13, 2008
I'm slowly reading this book "The Elephant's Secret Sense: The Hidden
Life of the Wild Herds of Africa" by Caitlin O' Connell. The book
reminds me of the "game counts" I took part in, in Namibia during 2002
and 2003. I worked then for an Environmental NGO and part of my work was
to participate in the annual game counts that took place in the northern
part of the country. The areas where the game counts took place were beautiful.
My favorites places are Purros and Marienfluss. I also had a great experience
in the Tsumkwe area, where the San people live. That's were I have the
most experience with elephants. They walked by us on their way to the
waterhole and back at night, a very amazing and scary experience. This
was a full moon game count, which was hard too. We had to stay awake all
night counting all the animals coming to drink at the waterhole. The most
scares animal that I saw was a mother cheetah with two cups. I plan to
take my family to see these areas one day. To learn more about the game
count, check out this link.
Marienfluss
area, Northen Namibia
Me,
in the field, picture taken near Purros, I think
June 8 , 2008
Where
is the summer? It has been rainy and cold the past week here. Hopefully
this week will bring some sunshine to us. Today we managed to get out
as a family. We went to church in the morning and attended a birthday
party for a friend. This church we go to has been really nice to us. When
we had Kauna, people from the church delivered delicious home made dinner
to us for two weeks. They did the same thing during Penda's birth too.
We really appreciate that!
Meme and her beautiful children
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