Monday, June 29, 2009

a writer monkey on the loose!

I seem to be engaged in continuous writing assignments from my phrasebook that has been sent back for second stage editing to the Somalia features I'm doing for Africa News Tonight and more recently an article on the crisis in Somalia and its impact on the civilians for Common Ground news so I'm working almost an average of a 24 hour cycle! But I'm thoroughly enjoying it. I feel I'm getting more productive by the day and I have something to stick my creative teeth into. Last week was another hectic week at work. Apart from the hearing I was working on the Crossfire everyday as well as taking part in the coordination of the shows and producing my progams.
I particularly enjoyed doing Friday's Crossfire where I got two guys from Djibouti to debate whether light-skinned women who bleach their skin look better and should continue to bleach their skins or whether they should pay attention to the harmful consequences that arise from it and should therefore stick with their natural skin colours. They went to war, literally they were at each other's throat and it was hilarious!
My weekly review had a special focus on MJ's death this week with a selection of one of his songs. It's amazing, I still can't believe he is dead but I suppose C'est la vie!

Not that I have had much personal time to myself but I have developed a strong liking towards Ethiopian music as of late, both their male and female singers have tremendous voices that you can feel even if you're an outsider like myself who doesn't understand the language!

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