Bonnie and Clyde 2010

Day 5: Favorite Love Story in a Movie

Even robots can fall in love :)

Vacation Time!!!

Going to Florida soon, totally looking forward to the following awesomeness:

   Beach

Turtles

Burt Reynolds Museum

     Fruity Drinks

Most Importantly... NO WORK!!!!!!

Day 4: A Movie That Makes You Sad

I had to go with a classic on this one. City Lights.

Other Top Sad Movie Choices:
Pan's Labyrinth
La Vita e bella
Schindler's List
Platoon
American History X
Brokeback Mountain
The Sandlot (I know strange but true)
The Notebook
Children of Men
Philidelphia
American Beauty
The Neverending Story

Day 3: A Movie that Makes You Really Happy

Love, Actually.

Always makes me happy, always makes me cry...

Sick

Ah, the joys of the first cold of the season. I missed two days of work this week, Monday and today. I hate missing work! Not that I don't love my days off, I just have so much going on right now, that missing even one day puts me too far behind, and there is so much going on right now.

Safari

There was once a king who had the finest ram in the world. When this ram happened to be grazing on Anansi's crops one day, Anansi threw a rock at it, hitting it between the eyes and killing it. Anansi knew that the king would punish him for what he had done to the prize ram, and he immediately schemed how to get out of the situation. Needless to say, Anansi resorted to trickery. Anansi sat under a tree to think of an escape when, all of a sudden, a nut fell and struck him on the head. Anansi immediately had an idea. First, he took the dead ram and tied it to the nut tree. Then he went to a spider and told it of a wonderful tree laden with nuts. The spider was delighted and immediately went to the tree. Anansi then went to the king and told him that the spider had evidently killed the prize ram; the ram was hanging from a tree where the spider was spinning webs. The king flew into a rage and demanded the death penalty for the spider. The king thanked Anansi and offered him a great reward. Anansi returned to the spider and warned it of the king's wrath, crying out to the whole world that the spider had killed the ram. The spider was very confused. Anansi told the spider to go to the king and plead for mercy, and perhaps the spider's life would be spared. Meanwhile, the king had gone home for lunch and told his wife what happened. The wife laughed and said, "Have you lost your mind? How on earth could a little spider make a thread strong enough to hold a ram? How in the world could that little spider hoist the ram up there? Don't you know, Anansi obviously killed your ram!" The king was angry that he had been deceived and told his court to fetch Anansi immediately. When the king's men came for him, Anansi assumed that it was to bring him to the palace for his reward for turning in the spider. So Anansi went along willingly. He walked into the palace as if he owned the place and then said to the king, "Well, what is my reward for the killer of your ram?" This enraged the king so much that he kicked Anansi, splitting him into many pieces; he was no longer a man, but a spider with long legs. 

Tee Hee!

Day 2: Most Underrated Movie

 It got great reviews but I don't think that many people saw it.

Another day in Arusha. One of the in-country trainers got sick today and had to go to the hospital. I was, of course, envisioning the worst scenario. I have a huge fear that one of our consultants will get really sick or injured or die when I'm on a trip. So of course that was immediately where my mind went. He was fine, he just needed oxygen (not sure why, didn't think it was appropriate to ask), thank goodness.

I think that my second training, which has really been 1/2 on my own, much like my first training, has been going well. So the next time I travel it will be without another staff person. Yikes. I do feel more confident when I don't have other staff members with me though. I feel like I can just be myself and take care of things, as opposed to feeling like I have to play a role that they expect me to take.

Feeling Good

1. Worked less than 12 hours today
2. Possible work drama avoided
3. Answered work emails
4. Did school work
5. Worked out
6. Scotch and Tangawizi

Taking a break from the 30 Day Song Challenge for... the 30 Day Movie Challenge, let's see where this takes us.

Day 1: Favorite Movie You Saw in the Last Year



Up! for this scene alone, which brought me and my hubby to tears

Wanderlust

I'm happy to say that I have a job that satisfies my need to travel. I usually get antsy if I don't get to go somewhere at least once a year. This trip has been difficult though. With school, work, difficult consultants, and missing my wediversary, it's been rough. I just got off the phone with R. and I feel really down. I guess I've been trying to avoid the fact that I am sad that I'm not with him today, and that sort of fell apart on our call. I have to do school work now and I'm just feeling stressed and sad. Blarg.

Safari Tomorrow!

 The first week of training went well. There were some long days and some obnoxious moments with some of the consultants, but otherwise it was nice.

Last night I had some of the most amazing Indian food at this little hole in the wall restaurant in downtown Arusha and the night before that was nyoma choma. So the delicious food at night is making up for the not so good food at our training venue. They serve lots of meat and rice, so I've been living on rice this week.

Tomorrow I am exploring Ngorongoro Crater with the consultants and Sunday I will be working on school work and attempting to rest.

Arusha

After lots of flying, and thankfully minimal small talk with other passengers, I made it in to Arusha last night at around 9:15pm. I think the most stressful part of the trip was the drive from Kilimanjaro to the hotel. There were some monster speed bumps, and we were on a dirt road for a while. But, despite the drive being a bit dicey, there is something about Africa that makes you feel relaxed. I don't know why, but I think it's a combination of the open spaces, and the smell (indescribable mix of fresh air, spices, and woodsmoke).

Today we went out to lunch and a craft market. I had perhaps the best, or at least the most unique veggie burger I've ever had. It was almost the texture of a moist falafel, and it had hints of cumin and curry. Yum!

The craft market was nice. I got a wedding present for my cousin who is getting married in November.I think that had I not been so jet lagged, and had some of the vendors not been so pushy I would have spent more time and money there. So perhaps it's a good thing I wasn't at the top of my shopping game.

Bon Voyage!

I know it's weird to say that when I'm the one leaving but I had a hard time coming up with a clever title. I still have a lot of work to do before the cab gets here at 1. 3 things for grad school, finish packing, and get showered and dressed. It's the grad school things that are really going to slow me down, that and the fact that I'm a nervous packer. Ah the joys of ADD.

Oh, I guess we get one last 30 day song challenge before I head out. When I was in Ethiopia I couldn't access blogger, so this might be the last one for a couple weeks.

Day 15: A Song That Describes You