Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Hot hot hot
There has been heat combined with thunderstorms for some time. I can't take much more of it to be honest, but then I could not take much more of Winter either! I suppose it is going to get worse before it gets better. I feel like I am sitting in a Turkish bath, except instead of getting cleaned I am getting dirtied.
Then too the internet is acting up here, not letting me go places I normally go, stuff like that. It isn't especially busy in here, in Easynet, yes I am down in Baščaršija, but not for the Festival, just for a change of pace.
Stuff that's been on the news or in the papers, I read about the ONLY female de-miner, she is 38 years old, has SIX kids and is definitely the only female de-miner in BiH, and perhaps in Europe. She is very dedicated to her work, and is a mother raising her kids alone, a widow. She said she had training working on computers and for office work, but she hates offices,(probably hates spending hard earned money on stupid stuff like pantyhose, office attire, and Chapstick!) she likes the outdoors and likes the challenge, and the pay isn't bad either. She sounds like a cool person!
The column of about 2,000 people who are makeing the now annual march for peace in commemoration of the men who walked through the woods, not always succesfully, from Srebenica is underway. Not only do veterans of this experience take part, from all over the world, but children born since the war are along. It is a very moving thing to see on T.V.
I found out Sarajevo only has FIVE health inspeactors to check out restaraunts! 5 Cinco Cuig Pet! Count them! in a city of this size there need to be more, and the numbers right now are depleted due to vacations. I tend to eat in places I am sure have sinks, I try for places that have bathrooms but around here, if you get a place with a visible sink someplace that is good! I don't eat out all that much but now it will be less.
Another big thing on the news, was that some European cheese companies despite the E.U. and all it's hordes of inspectors running around, were 'recycleling' cheese! Cheese that was well past it's pull date, full of mouse droppings, and just plain icky was being ground up, mixed with marginally fresher cheese and foisted upon the unsuspecting public, Gorgonzala, an already smelly cheese, and Mozarella were the commonest cheeses that underwent this treatment. EWWWW! I hope someone gets sent to a small wire room for that! Seriiously! Car bombs get all the attention, slow death from food poisoning is also death and a nasty form of it!
Also in France, a nuclear power plant accidentally discharged some nuclear waste into two rivers, so no one can fish, bathe or drink the water. Can't wait to meet Blinky the Fish! How do you say 'Blinky the Fish' in French?
There was egg sized hail the day before yesterday, not all that far from Sarajevo. The mornings have been hot, and the afternoons have been stormy.
I am too hot to be out and about for long, especially in this internet cafe, which has very noisy and rather ineffective air conditioning.
Americans coming here mustn't take offence, people do bathe, but with no air conditioning and so forth....
Then too the internet is acting up here, not letting me go places I normally go, stuff like that. It isn't especially busy in here, in Easynet, yes I am down in Baščaršija, but not for the Festival, just for a change of pace.
Stuff that's been on the news or in the papers, I read about the ONLY female de-miner, she is 38 years old, has SIX kids and is definitely the only female de-miner in BiH, and perhaps in Europe. She is very dedicated to her work, and is a mother raising her kids alone, a widow. She said she had training working on computers and for office work, but she hates offices,(probably hates spending hard earned money on stupid stuff like pantyhose, office attire, and Chapstick!) she likes the outdoors and likes the challenge, and the pay isn't bad either. She sounds like a cool person!
The column of about 2,000 people who are makeing the now annual march for peace in commemoration of the men who walked through the woods, not always succesfully, from Srebenica is underway. Not only do veterans of this experience take part, from all over the world, but children born since the war are along. It is a very moving thing to see on T.V.
I found out Sarajevo only has FIVE health inspeactors to check out restaraunts! 5 Cinco Cuig Pet! Count them! in a city of this size there need to be more, and the numbers right now are depleted due to vacations. I tend to eat in places I am sure have sinks, I try for places that have bathrooms but around here, if you get a place with a visible sink someplace that is good! I don't eat out all that much but now it will be less.
Another big thing on the news, was that some European cheese companies despite the E.U. and all it's hordes of inspectors running around, were 'recycleling' cheese! Cheese that was well past it's pull date, full of mouse droppings, and just plain icky was being ground up, mixed with marginally fresher cheese and foisted upon the unsuspecting public, Gorgonzala, an already smelly cheese, and Mozarella were the commonest cheeses that underwent this treatment. EWWWW! I hope someone gets sent to a small wire room for that! Seriiously! Car bombs get all the attention, slow death from food poisoning is also death and a nasty form of it!
Also in France, a nuclear power plant accidentally discharged some nuclear waste into two rivers, so no one can fish, bathe or drink the water. Can't wait to meet Blinky the Fish! How do you say 'Blinky the Fish' in French?
There was egg sized hail the day before yesterday, not all that far from Sarajevo. The mornings have been hot, and the afternoons have been stormy.
I am too hot to be out and about for long, especially in this internet cafe, which has very noisy and rather ineffective air conditioning.
Americans coming here mustn't take offence, people do bathe, but with no air conditioning and so forth....
# posted by Katja R. @ 1:15 AM 
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Surprising there's only one woman de-miner in Bosnia. In Cambodia there seem to be a lot more.
For an innovative approach in Mozambique have a look at
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1282859.htm
For an innovative approach in Mozambique have a look at
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1282859.htm
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: 4:31 PM
I think a lot of why there are fewer female de-miners here is cultural. Women are supposed to take safer jobs if they have kids, it's just assumed they will, if a person can get a job, in the first place!
Cambodia is interesting, because it is likelier that women will undertake physically demanding or heavy work than in many other Asian countries. There seems to be more genuine equality between men and women in Cambodian culture too.
I'd seen about the rats used to find landmines before, they seem like a good option.
Rats are certainly cheaper to feed than dogs, and have the added advantage of being too small to immediately set off a mine, something people and dogs both routinely do. I don't know if they have been tried in BiH or not.
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Cambodia is interesting, because it is likelier that women will undertake physically demanding or heavy work than in many other Asian countries. There seems to be more genuine equality between men and women in Cambodian culture too.
I'd seen about the rats used to find landmines before, they seem like a good option.
Rats are certainly cheaper to feed than dogs, and have the added advantage of being too small to immediately set off a mine, something people and dogs both routinely do. I don't know if they have been tried in BiH or not.
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