KOFFERS voor AFRIK(A)

Posted: August 20th, 2008 | Filed under: Delicious | Tags: africa, afrika, Antwerp, koffers, suitcases, sunday morning | No Comments »

KOFFERS voor AFRIKA – Antwerpen, originally uploaded by Caroline.

Sunday morning. Bag shop advertisting ‘suitcases for Africa’. It looked straight out of Tintin (Kuifje).

Small set of Antwerp pictures, nothing spectacular. I’d rented a bike and was cycling more than stopping and taking pictures.

Abroad mind

Posted: June 12th, 2006 | Filed under: Personal | Tags: africa, amsterdam, cosmopolitan, cousin, dart, denmark, dirt, goldrush, highschool days, holes, indonesia, lifetime, living in france, northern ireland, square peg, ten thousand | 4 Comments »

Regrets, I’ve had a few, but none so big as the one where I kick myself for not having lived and worked abroad in my lifetime.

I envy my cousin who was born in Africa, schooled in Indonesia and Denmark, and is living in France. Cosmopolitan beats nationalist in my book.

In my highschool days I would have loved to go on an exchange program to the USA, but that didn’t seem to be available to me at the time. When I was in college I worked in Northern Ireland for 6 weeks, but there weren’t any schemes for a longer stay. Later still, well, it just didn’t happen. Maybe I’m just not that adventurous.

Let’s face it, I should have moved to Ireland years ago. Before the goldrush. When houses were dirt cheap (seven, maybe ten thousand Euro would have got me a nice cottage back then. What a great investment that would have been.

I always said I wouldn’t fit in over there, but fuck me, I’m Ms Square Peg whereever I am including this place I call ‘home’. Still as round holes go, Amsterdam ain’t so bad.

I’m not sure where I’m going with this. It’s just a little frustrating at the moment not being able to hop on the DART to lend a hand.

Uncle Larry takes care of things

Posted: February 3rd, 2005 | Filed under: Music | Tags: africa, babies and mothers, band u2, drummer, drums, friendliness, important things, larry mullen, poster child, sebastian, teenage girl, u2 | Comments Off

Finally a reaction from the band: U2′s Larry Mullen writes open letter to U2.com members. It reads rather nicely, until the added PS. Ouch. A bit petty, but very… Larry, whose favourite statement is F.O.A.D.

U2 have never been good at taking criticism. Let it slide, man.

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