Well, I found these two articles today on the internet. One makes me happy and is very encouraging. The other is sad to me, both having some sort of impact on my history or past- both from different parts of the world!
Uplifting article first about the 2010 World Cup Soccer tournament being hosted by my mom's birth country South Africa! So positive and exciting! Read article HERE. Some of the comments are really neat too, like this one:
June 9th, 2010 1:47 pm ET
I don’t think that the image portrayed by the media of our country is always necessarily correct. We are not a bunch of tyre burning demonstrators or white supremacist farmers. In fact, the colour lines have very much blurred in recent years. From an ordinary “woman on the street” point of view, if we win this Soccer Wold Cup, it will only be a bonus. There is a buzz and an underlying current of pride and joy that is tangible. You see it in the black men teaching white woman how to properly make noise on a vuvuzela and white men dancing next to black woman and everyone singing Shosholoza and Nkosi Sikilela together. The issue of race is alive and well because it is given attention. The moment it is ignored, like a child tantruming for sweeties, it will stop. I personally am sick and tired of the uncertainty and fear unnecessarily created. Yes we have issues and problems with crime, we also have one of the most liberal and progressive constitutions in the world. Come and visit our incredible beautiful country, come and listen to 11 different languages, come and eat food from more cultures packed into one restaurant menu than you thought possible, come and see our beautiful children, the Cradle of Human Kind, Table Bay, the surfers in Durban, the breathtaking desolation of the Karoo and the majestic Drankensberg mountains. Thank you to Madiba and Mr. Danny Jordaan and their team. Thank you for working tirelessly to bring this event to our beloved country with such poise and class. It has united us all like nothing ever has before! Go Bafana go. We are so incredibly proud of you no matter if you win or lose. You already are our heroes. And we will not be successful in hosting this World Cup, we already are successful!
Here is an article I found via Facebook from some friends I grew up with and went to high school with, this is the sad news. My high school, Sinagua High in Flagstaff, AZ is being closed as of this Fall. No more SHS Mustangs and that saddens me. Read article HERE.I had some really good memories there- like all of my wonderful friends and going to Major Lingo with them and Choir and Yearbook; some not so good- like tripping up the stairs between classes (embarrassing!) and the Math Teach that said "n-kay" like literally a thousand times in 5 mins. And while I'd like to pontificate more, I will now post. (*Reminder to self for book- copy and paste the WHOLE article for journaling purposes!)
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