luzne teksty/ loose tips

Kasia z wczoraj:

“ty tu sobie grzecznie ogladaj, a ja ide siku i wroce za godzine…”

wiecie o co cho…

Kasia yesterday:

“you watch here decently, and I will go to make a pee and I’m back in one hour..” you know what she ment, yeah?

i wiele zartow sytuacyjnych, ktorych nie potrafie opisac

and many more situational jokes impossible to be described by me

 

i cos do czytania: http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/days/asfuck.php

probka/sample: You actually do us all a real disservice with your tiresome, tedious politics. For in fact, there is nothing more important than politics. NOT the politics of American “democracy” and law, of who is elected state legislator to sign the same bills and perpetuate the same system. Not the politics of the “I got involved with the radical left because I enjoy quibbling over trivial details and writing rhetorically about an unreachable utopia” anarchist. Not the politics of any leader or ideology that demands that you make sacrifices for “the cause.” But the politics of our everyday lives. When you separate politics from the immediate, everyday experiences of individual men and women, it becomes completely irrelevant. Indeed, it becomes the private domain of wealthy, comfortable intellectuals, who can trouble themselves with such dreary, theoretical things. When you involve yourself in politics out of a sense of obligation, and make political action into a dull responsibility rather than an exciting game that is worthwhile for its own sake, you scare away people whose lives are already far too dull for any more tedium. When you make politics into a lifeless thing, a joyless thing, a dreadful responsibility, it becomes just another weight upon people, rather than a means to lift weight from people. And thus you ruin the idea of politics for the people to whom it should be most important.

For Luc and Daphne

I’ve searched the whole photo album and Dap, we don’t have any, none, zero, nul photo with YOU! How did it happen?

Here are some of Luc with girls

pisza o Polsce w Etiopii/ journals about Poland in Ethiopia

Mowisz – masz. / You say, you have.

Oto artykuly, ktore ukazaly sie w najwazniejszych etiopskich gazetach po wizycie studyjnej czwroki dziennikarzy etiopskich w Polsce.

These are the articles in the most known Ethiopian newspapers, which showed up after study visit of 4 Ethiopian journalists to Poland.

Przy okazji zauwazcie, jak sie sklada gazety w Etiopii. Kawalek, doslownie kawaleczek artykuly jest przeniesiony na koniec gazety. I tak jest ze wszystkimi. Nie poczytasz w minibusie. Trzeba sie niezle namachac rekami, poszelescis i do tego jeszcze nie stracic watku. Strasznie mnie to draznie, ale jest to tu tak powszechne, ze nie mam wiary w jakiekolwiek zmiany w tym temacie.

By the way, take a look how they, I don’t know the right word in English, edit/put/break the articles here in Ethiopia. small, a very small peice of article is put in the back of the newspaper. And it’s adapted to all the articles. You are not able to read it without making noise, throwing around your hands, biting people on the minibus and try not to loose the subject. It really irritates me, but there in no perspectives for change as it’s happening in every newspaper, magazine, whatever.

poster

Etyczne biuro Etiopia / Ethical office Ethiopia

eFTe rulezzzzz!!!!

Jestem dumna, bo dzis w Etiopii odbylo sie pierwsze szkolenie z etycznego biura dla Cactus Ethiopia i What’s up Addis. To agencja reklamowa, w ktorej pracuje Kasia i Sylwia, a ja tam od czasu do czasu przebywam, jako ze projekt Our Father’s Kitchen jest prowadzony przez Jassyra – szefa Cactusa.

W Cactusie jedyne co recyklingowali to tusze do drukarek z potrzeby oszczednosci. Nikt, albo prawie nikt o srodowisku nie myslal. Kasia zalatwila szkolenie, bo dba o srodowisko i targalo ja, ze tyle papieru sie marnuje. Darunia zrobila ankiete i dawaj…. Bylo glownie o oszczedzaniu energii ( bo zaledwie kilka osoba na 35 wylacza monitor i komputer po pracy), papieru ( bo nie ma polityki brudkow, a papier zuzyty sie palilo) i troche o plastikach, szkle i wodzie.

I od razu po szkoleniu pojawily sie kosze na plastik, choc jeszcze nie rozgryzlam jak mozna go tutaj recyklingowac, kto moze sie po niego zglaszac. Domowe butelki oddajemy zawsze do “kioskow ruchu” i biora, ale w wiekszych ilosciach.. hmmmm.. temat do zbadania. Mamy rowniez karton na brudki oraz 2 kartony na papiery zuzyte dwustronnie i gazety. Po to bedzie przyjezdzac gosc z Ethio Pul and Paper company. Dla mnie bomba. Pierwsza etiopska PR agency environmental friendly.

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Please don’t print this e-mail unless you really need to.

Thank you.

eFTe rulessss!!!!

I’m very proud, because today for the first time in Ethiopia, the ethical office workshop by eFTe was made for Cactus Ethiopia and What’s up Addis. This is a PR agency for which Kasia and Sylwia work and I pop in there from time to time as my project’s (Our Father’s Kitchen) father is Yasser – Cactus’s director.

Up till now the only thing that was recycled in Cactus were cartridges, for the economical reasons of course. Nobody  or hardly anybody was thinking about the environment. Kasia set up the workshop, because she cares about the environment. Daria made a small research and… go for it, girl. We discussed mainly about saving energy ( as for 35 people working daily there only a few switch off their computers and monitors), paper ( as there was no policy of reusing one-side dirty paper and used paper was burnt) and a little bit about plastic, glass and water. And right after workshop baskets for plastic have appeared. I still don’t know if Ethiopia has policy for recycling it. What we do at home is to give away bottles to small shops. Now there are also 2 boxes for used paper and newspapers which willl be taken away by someone from Ethio Pulp and Paper Company.

Doesn’t it sound great? For me its awsome. First Ethiopian Pr Agency environmental friendly.

Iiiijooo, iiijoooo….

HIstoria bedzie troche przydlugawa. Normalnie i po ludzku zachorowalam, sie przeziebilam. W piatek, przedostatniego dnia wrzesnia troche zaczelo mnie pobolewac gardlo. W sobote bolalo konkretie plus doszly dreszcze, ale co tam.. sobota jest, nie? Poszlysmy do Al Jazeery zuc czat z Monika i jej znajomymi. Moje silne postanowieie nie zucia i nie picia zdalo sie na nic. Poza tym wszyscy stwierdzili zgodnie, ze czat dobrze mi zrobi na gardlo. Do tego jeszcze troche blessa i o godzinie 11 mnie nie bylo. Nie wiedzialam kim jestem, kobieta, mezczyzna, czlowiekiem?….nie wiedzialam czy cos mowie, czy tylko mysle. Masakra. Skutek tego byl taki, ze w niedziele obudzialm sie z temperatura 39. No to co sie wtedy robi? Bierze sie gripex. Skonsumowwszy 8 tabletek, wypociwszy sie, wypiwszy tonu imbiru, mleka, cieplej herbaty i nie wiem czego jeszcze poczulam sie lepiej i w poniedzialek poszlam do roboty. I tak sie bujalam z ta choroba, od 38 do 37 stopni, gardlo caly czas bolalo. Troskliwe kolezanki zgodnie orzekly, ze moga to byc objawy malarii i powinnam isc zbadac krew. Zawariowaly, mysle se.

W koncu w czwartek udalam sie do szpitala. Rosyjskiego…. A daaaa, jest takij w Addis. Dar narodu radzieckiego dla afrykanskich towarzyszy. Za porada Salomona z ambasady zaczelam od “zdrastwujtie” i poszlo… Etiopczycy nawet do mnie po rosyjsku nawijali. Przemila pani doktor Tatiana pomacala, obejrzala gardlo i stwierdzila, ze da mi cos do jego plukania, ale bez antybiotykow, chyba ze temperatura podskoczy powyzej 38.

W piatek wstalam jak skowronek. Poszlam na Mercato pomoc w budowaniu kuchni dla Our Father’s Kitchen i wszystko bylo ok do pory obiadu. Jak mnie scielo, to ledwo do domu dojechalam. Od razu termometr i 38,5, a za pol godziny 39,2.

Mylse se.. umieram. Malaria, albo sepsa. Kasia dyktowala mi objawy przez telefon, a ja robilam sie coraz bledsza. Obie choroby pasowaly. Okutawszy sie w koce, trzesac sie wypelzlam z domu zeby czekac na podstawiony samochod z amby, co to mnie do szpitala zawiezie. Przycupnelam na murku i czekam i.. przechodza 2 starowinki i.. nie moge wlasnym oczom uwierzyc – jedna wyciagla lape w zebraczym gescie. Nie przepuszcza ferendzowi. Umieram a te ostatniego centa wyrwa. Absurd tej sytuacji tak mnie przybil, ze sie centralnie rozwylam. Starowinka sie przestraszyla i uciekla mowiac “ajzosz”. Oni na wszystko mowia tu ajzosz albo ajzo, czyli nie martw sie.

A ja, prosze ja was mercedesem pomknelam do szpitala. Kierowca, Takele byl chyba rownie przerazony jak ja. A w szpitalu zlazlo sie chyba z 5 lekarzy, Rosjanie. Ja wiecie, 39,2 w przekonaniu ze umieram staram sie artykulowac po rosyjsku. Badania. Serce – 100 uderzen na minute. Krew – 23 000 leukocytow. Do tego jeszcze spuchlam z lewej strony szyi, od migdalka po obojczyk. A ci stoja i debatuja. I pytanie podstawowe czy u mienia sa dziengi. No, pal szesc, niewiele ale sa. Nie bojties  – zaplace, tylko zrobcie cos zeby nie bolalo.

W koncu zdecydowali ze zostaje w szpitalu. Damn it. Dostalam VIPowski pokoj. Lepiej jak w domu: telewizor, lodoweczka klasy A, wlasna lazienka. Prawie Lesna Gora.  Potrzymali mnie 3 dni. Wladowali kilka litrow glukozy, antybiotykow, zastrzykow w dupala. Poogladalam RTR, poczytalam ksiazki. Bylam Dasza. Codziennie przychodzili inni lekarze i pielegniarze. Odwiedzala mnie Kasia, Sylwia, Sami, poselstwo i Mr. Chin – Chinczyk z pokoju obok, ktory ledwo co wyjechal do pracy za granice, 25 lat i bach – malaria. To sie nazywa pech chyba. Teraz juz jestem zdrowa. W spadku zostala mi skwara na pol gornej wargi. U mienia nowyje druzja iz Rassiji, mniej byrow w kieszeni i nawrot wiary w antybiotyki. I sluzba zdrowia w Etiopii w porzadku, tylko trzeba miec kase. I nie mam malarii, co najwazniejsze.

Wot i cala historia.

A co w tym czasie sie u Kasi dzialo….uuuuuuuuu

Poor story ciag dalszy…

… a potem bedzie o tym jak Daria wyladowala w szpitalu

a little bit about Poor story again and than thee will be a piece about Daria’s adventures in the hospital

How is your money spent?

1. activities funded by your donations to charities which are mainly small projects in the field including water pumps, giving families goats and so on. It’s charity aid.
2. large-scale financial and technical assistance provided by the governments’ aid agencies ( Polska jeszcze takiej nie ma. Oby nie miala. Ambasady i wspolpracujace z nimi organizacje pozarzadowe w zupelnosci wystarcza.To wszystko moje wlasne zdanie). This is what about two-thirds of your money aid money through taxes is spent on. It’s National Aid.
3. Assistance from international donors ( World Bank etc). It’s International Aid.

 

Ad.1. Most well established, reputable charities spend up to 15-20 percent of their funds on fundrising, and another 15-20 percent on administration costs and ‘programme support’ costs: everything from salaries to loo paper. It may seem excessive that 15-20 % of our donations go to fundrising costs. But it’s the cost of television adverts, speculative leaflets, box shakers. All these approaches take time and money. Giving through a regular commitment is far more cost-effective, as well as providing charities with a more predictable income.

And the money should be spent wisely. It’s good design, management and monitoring of project aid that matters most.

Ownership, capacity and sustainability!!!

The best charities work through local staff rather than expatriates wherever possible. They know you can only provide inoculations for babies if the mothers aren’t suspicious about the contents of the needle, that a water pump will lie disused if no one has the means or knowledge to mend it, and the health clinic will stand empty if there are no nurses.  The worst charities – aside from the direst few that exist only as an excuse to keep expatriates staff in tropical comfort – are those who believe aid is simple and all the need to do is turn up and “make a difference”.

 

Who should I give my money to?

-         Make sure it’s registered charity.

-         Do they give credible information about their track record and how they spend their funds, rather than just the heart-rending bits about how much your cash is needed?

-         Are they open about what proportion of their funding is spent on administration and running costs?

-         Try not to choose charities based on your own views of what might help most – look for the organization that sound like they find out what poor people themselves want.

-         Look at annual reports if you have time or request evaluation material of some of their work.

-         check out: charitywatch.org , allaboutgiving.com , charitiesdirect.com

 

If you don’t have time for all the above there are shortcuts:

-         is it a large, well-established charity? If it’s Red Cross, or Oxfam, or Save the Children there’s a pretty good chance they have sound expertise and implement reasonable help.

-         Does the charity receive funding from large donor agencies like government or UN? It might prove their reasonable track record.

 

You decided on charity. What next?

-         try to ensure the charity gets tax relief on your donations. Most western countries have good tax-relief schemes in place. It makes your donation worth much more.

-         Make a long-term commitment so charities can budget sensibly, have to spend less on eliciting your funds and don’t just get money in times of emergency.

-         Give money – not stuff. If you want to clean up your closets, then sell the contents and donate the proceeds – or give to charity who will do so on your behalf. Sending things overseas for second-use is expensive.

 

 

Why it doesn’t work properly?

 

1. around 75% of donor support in Africa is still provided as project aid, rather than through African budgets. Although donor projects are generally on a large scale than charity projects, it still means thousands of separately run processes that are hard to coordinate and duplication is sometimes rampant.
2. world bank estimates there are around 100 000 ‘technical experts’ funded by donors in Africa. Bringing in outside expertise is a valid form of aid, but should only be used in moderation. Most consultants are non-Africans, generally coming from the Western donor country funding the work. The rather shocking reason behind this is that many donors still |tie” their aid so that the consultants they fund have to come from their own country, rather than the best available internationally. One of the worst offenders is the US. This really matters as the largest national aid-donor , the US could be the most effective. It refuses to fund African systems directly, hamstringing the benefit it could bring. An astonishing 70% of US aid is ‘tied’ for US consultants and materials ( Italy is even worse at 92 percent) and fully 47 percent of US aid spending in total goes on consultants ( Australia  - 46%, Germany – 34%). Nearly half of US national aid never even gets anywhere close to Africans in terms of food, water pumps or direct support for African systems.
3. National interests. Many donors’ aid goes to “strategic partners’ in support of national interest of the donor. Despite Africa containing most of the world’s poorest countries, only three of the top ten recipients of European Commission aid are African, while the US boasts only two ( Congo, Ethiopia). In fact, the two largest traditional recipients of US assistance of the last couple of decades have been Egypt and Israel.

Musztarda po obiedzie

I co ja teraz kochana Maziu mam zrobic? Coz mogę napisac? Jakze wytłumaczyc sie mam?

Prawda jest taka, ze nic nie przebije Kasi zyczen. Umowmy się, ze ja slabsza w wypowiadaniu sie, o czym wszyscy doskonale wiedza. Poematu nie wymyslilabym, ody do Mazi rowniez, kawalka muzycznego nie uloze.

Plan mialam taki, zeby do Ciebie zadzwonic i wyryczec:

…bo wielka dzieli nas graniiicaaaaaaaa…

Bos ty w Polandii przeciez jest

A my tu sobie w Etiopii uuuuu…..

I teskno nam do ciebie jeeeessst….

 

Nawet Majkel by sie przylaczyl.

W kazdym badz razie, tak jak mowie… taki mialam plan, ale plan sie rypl.

Ale nie czujesz sie urazona, prawda?

 

I na dobre nastrojenie: youtube i Legalize it!

 

 

Legalize it – don’t criticize it
Legalize it and i will advertise it

Some call it tampee
Some call it the weed
Some call it Marijuana
Some of them call it Ganja

Legalize it – don’t criticize it
Legalize it and i will advertise it

Singer smoke it
And players of instruments too
Legalize it, yeah, yeah
That’s the best thing you can do
Doctors smoke it
Nurses smoke it
Judges smoke it
Even the lawyers too

Legalize it – don’t criticize it
Legalize it and i will advertise it

It’s good for the flu
It’s good for asthma
Good for tuberculosis
Even umara composis

Legalize it – don’t criticize it
Legalize it and i will advertise it

Bird eat it
And they leave it
Fowls eat it
Goats love to play with it

Reggae nabijaj J