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Name: Greg
Birthday: 1/15/1989
Gender: Male
Interests: I suppose I ought to say "God." That seems traditional for Xanga Christians, yet it seems just a bit facetious. Perhaps I ought to say God has an interest in me
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| Fanie Fourie's Lobola by Nape a Motana - Hmph, I just had a nice long post and it got deleted. Actually, I deleted it, but I have no idea how I did so.
Anyway, this is a fun culture-clash book set in South Africa. It is obvious that the author's first language isn't English (it's SeSotho, I think) but this just gives him a very unique style and diction. I had trouble with some of the author's descriptions - he seemed to think it necessary to tell us in detail what the main characters were wearing at every possible opportunity, which gets wearing after the first three or four times. All in all, however, a good picture of the positive side of modern South Africa.
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| Just the other day in the newspaper I noticed this headline:
"Why should we worry about melting ice cpas in sunny South Africa?"
So, be very afraid - when the accountants start to go . . .
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| I'm currently working in a library, which, for someone like me, is a lot of fun. I get to handle books, organize them and read them all day. However, sometimes the people who use the library drive me crazy. For example, how do you shelf a set of commentaries? Well, most of the time the particular book of the Bible that the commentary covers is listed on the spine, but these pastors-in-training might not know the order of the books of the Bible. So, to be helpful, in most cases they are numbered. Except they are still put in the wrong order. So perhaps I should say that some students in this seminary can't count up to twenty without making any mistakes. | | |
| A friend of mine today, after hearing of the unfortunate event mentioned below, told me he knew who the punks who robbed me were. I was surprised, because I hadn't even told him what they had looked like. No, he informed me, there are two guys down by the corner who he is sure did it. So, tommorrow he is going to point them out to me and see if he is right.
Then, "we kick their asses." | | |
| Well, I was coming home from buying electricity today when some fellows mugged me. Shoved me around a little, rifled through my pockets, and hightailed it to the bush. All they managed to get was a cell phone, the house keys and my pocket knife. (Oh, and a paper bag. I'm not too sure what good that will do them - maybe they need it to store the other stuff.) Oddly enough, they managed to competely miss the only money I had on me - as my father said: "Criminal, but mainly stupid." | | |
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