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December 3rd 2008 by The Fresh Prince of Mozambique
Yes, your eyes are not deceiving you, this would in fact be my second blog entry within the last 10 days. It must be due to that holiday magic that finds a way to touch all of us, even those of us in Mozambique. I was telling my mom that Thanksgiving is just absolutely HUGE here!! You wouldn't think it, but the streets were just overflowing with Mozambicans wearing pilgrim style hats, dressing up like turkeys, and of course bars become packed with everyone in town who has gathered around to see the Detroit Lions play football on the television. It really is just a fascinating scene.
OK, so all that may be a lie, but I'm starting the Straight Talk Express (RIP) from here on out. I will break this edition up into two entries, both of which will be FULL of pictures and very slim on words.
This particular entry will take you on a pictorial journey through the creation a large, painted mural in my town, a project that I helped organize and that was presented to my town on World AIDS Day, December 1.
The next entry will contain a number of not extremely
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the left half
the parents working, carrying wood, babies, getting dinner ready, and their small mud hut with grass roof in the background
the right side
their child sleeping on the bottom, having a dream of going to school, and then leaving prepared to enter the world and realize his potential
the meanings...
in the upper left blue box are the names of all the kids who helped paint....next to that "kids, young people, elderly, health is life"...in the red box, it identifies the community based organization... [more]
deep...
...in conversation...in fact, even though i had just finished playing a soccer game, i still had time to explain to our hero artist what he could have done better in the painting, how i would have don... [more]
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