like NOW! I'm serious, I've been looking for one for like the past 8million years and cannot find a decent one, I feel like I'm searching in the desert instead of flippin DC.
For the past few days my left eye has been invaded by swelling caused according to the nurse by the scratching of hands that cannot keep away from the eye (guess I've been told!). So I'm on strict rules where I have to wash my hands every 0.0001 second and keep them tucked away in a pocket somewhere.
Since I cannot draw the line between work and personal life anymore I might as well fill you in on a rumour I heard from the little republican bird over at fox news saying some of the missing Somali-American boys have returned to the US! There is no official acknowledgement by this piece of information by the FBI or other national security forces but you know, mumsy fox knows best!
On the other side my phrasebook is coming along nicely, now that most of the editing is done it is actually starting to look sensible, though mum still needs to put the finishing touch on it before it can be deemed printable. I'm hoping it can be launched alongside the next quarterly Somali cultural awareness seminar in May in Leicester.
Every now and then something happens that puts your senses firmly back in touch with reality whilst most of our times is spent trolling along skipping ropes in LaLaland. In this instant the reality is that anything can happen to anyone anywhere. A colleague of mine recently had a sister deported to the shores of wartorn Somalia, the sister being almost born here in the US with no concept of Somalia watsoever. She is American and has grown up here just like any other American youngster.
However she spent weeks being shipped from airport to airport in almost every East African country, all of them refusing her access to their country. Throughout this time the girl has no clothes, no money, absolutely nothing on her as she was taken suddenly from the immigration office, where she went for an appointment, straight to Dulles airport leaving her family and all concerned in a state of shock.
Fortunately as all the countries refused to take her US had to bring her back here.
She came back yesterday. What I still wonder is how does the state department derive at the conclusion of sending someone to a country that millions have fled because of the dire conditions of the state of anarchy the country is in of which this very same country has accepted asylum from those people based on those conditions?
I am at awe. I sincerely hope light gets shed on this story and other similar stories as it is a violations of human rights to attempt to send someone who came to you seeking peace to a deadly warzone where their lives would clearly be in danger.
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