I don’t know what? But watch this space…………………..
Yesterday life, for the first time felt, well normal. I got up at 7:30 and made KC a cup of tea before he went off to Port Louis to sort out our freight delivery. After an hour or so online, I did a bit of housework, a load of washing and got Adam and Dan breakfast before they went off to the beach. Spent an hour with my English student before I went up to Grand Baie on the bus to meet KC and the boys. I stopped and had a conversation with two people in Pereybere ( with no KC they actually spoke to me in English which was great). Mooched around the shops, I am still looking for something to wear to next weeks family wedding and sat on the water front in the sunshine waiting to meet up with the lads. Enjoyed a fruit cocktail and the view in Sunset cafe before shopping in SuperU and going home to cook tea. Watched a video and fell asleep before the end…………..now that is normal!
The unthinkable (by Amanda Ripley) is part study of the science of reaction to extreme fear, part indictment of the US government’s response to the terrorist threat, part call to arms. The call in question is for the individual to make an assessment of the risks we face and then to develop a strategy to help ourselves, rather than rely on others, should the need arise. “If you speak to disaster experts they only talk about what the government should be doing,” says Ripley. “That’s a mistake. Regular people can have an enormous impact on their own survival chances. The problem is: people think it won’t happen to them and, if it does, they’re screwed. It’s really lame if you think about it. We all take ourselves very seriously in other ways.
Thought this linked neatly to my previous blog.
“It’s not what happens to you that makes a difference, what makes a difference is how you handle what happens to you.”
This statement made by an American struggling with the current floods made me feel quite optimistic; its true! Its not what happens to us, although events can make life very difficult, its how we deal with it. It puts us back in control; stops the victim mentality that appears to be flooding (pun intended) our society!
It is official America uses torture to find out what it wants to know…. Is torture ever acceptable? If it was our father, brother, son; how would we feel?
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It sounds very ethical! But I wonder about the adult workers, who may also loose their income! And why has Primark sacked them? Probably because they are worried about their profits!
How do I create a link Omar? Rob? Jen? can any body help me?
Well I am today, up in the night; verbose bull frogs and terential rain are making a tremendous racket. Oversleep, late for the doctors, it’s still raining, heavily, and still no raincoat. Standing in the queue for my blood test, dripping wet, I remember that it is supposed to be a fasting sugar, I had a cup of sweet tea and two biscuits while I was up in the night! Back at the bus stop, dead, ginger, cat by my feet and the phone rings. It’s the builder, he’s at our place to collect the plans for the electrician! KC gives me that look that only he can give (Omar, Hannah, Adam, a few close friends and numerous pupils at Oxstalls will know what I mean) and I ve just ****** lost what i was writing!
