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Hi everybody of the Euroafrican Project!!

Salut from Ouagadougou, MJCA-DUNIA LA VIE!

Here time is great. As I say you yet, the travel run fast, the volunteer are every day very busy, ‘cause the cultural activities here go on and on, and on..

Two weeks ago Dunia la vie welcomed a Troup of French artist that played a spectacle of cabaret-cirque: les Magiciens du monde. So as you I saw you yet, here cultural exchange between artist and volunteers europeen-african are played frequently. This is the precious richness of MJCA.

A webpage is not enough to list all new activities promotes this month by the animators of MJCA(theatre, storytellers, debates, cirque, cultural exchange). Next day I will show you more photos of this wonderful socio-cultural community.

Now I wants to introduce the Troup Zhe Tuwa, a collectif of great percussionist and dancer burkinabè (Ali, one of the component of the troup is a cool animators of MJCA as you see in the foto with two children). They are are born in a small village de l’etnie Gourounssi, au Sanguie à Reo, Burkina Faso. You can find more information on the blog of the association Dunia la vie.

dunialavie.burkina.free.fr

The Troup gained the first Prix de la SNC, a great national Festival played at Bobo Dioulasso. Then they travelled and performed also in Europe, France (Loire). Now it’s time that they came also in Italy, isn’t it? Than if you are interested you can contact the web of Dunia la vie, or this adress mail: ali.bado85@yahoo.fr ,and very soon The troup will open a URL on Myspace; I will give yoou more news next month.

En mars 2010 they opened the ceremony of inauguration of “FITD 2010” a very important International Festival of Theatre played at Ouagadougou (www.atb.bf). I would show you that video today, but i have a lot of problem with the internet connection. Next days I gotta find the way to show you more video; so in this way you can really understand what kind of professionist travel for Mjca:

Now a special super thanks to Yasmina Badolo, Emiliano Bon and David Tonon that gave me the chance to live this wonderful dream here at Ouagadougou:)

Good luck and Bill fu at all volunteers of Euroafrican Project, and especially to Modeste at Bordeaux!

Cheers from Cristina

Hello everybody. Bonjour à tous...
I think everyone is well. During the holidays of february i worked with the young people on the particular animation the percussion, the dance and the song African. The animation that are spent well but at the beginning i assisted the progress of the animation in the France culture which impressed a lot of me and which is completely different from the culture of Burkina Faso. Here in French the right (law) of the child is very to respect what gives (certain) authority to the young people to choose in their appropriate (clean) distraction? The animation are governed in the French law of the presence of the cultural center and the leisure where take place our animation.
I consider that he (it) will be very difficult has a country for the Burkina to live a life as the French otherwise even. The young french people "crunch (outline) the life which beautiful tooth". The young are very civilized in animation there and view (sight) of the professionalism of the presenters i think that in term of the animation i would have an experience beautiful during this project and to have also a relation whith the other structure who are in relationship with the Burkina.
Now i (prepare) the holidays fellow man who is from 19 till 30 april and during these holidays i shall participate more as presenter (driving force) and it resume in my personal project of my voluntary service. All 1st week long i shall make of percussion the singing, the tale, and the african's dance. And on wednesday of the city to live with African rhythm.
From april 30th till May 6th i shall go participated has a voluntary meeting of the young people in France in a city of the country (Montpellier).
To end i wish you all discovery and of acquisition during the voluntary service. Good bye...

My Economics classes are going from strength to spare! I found that I can fly over everything I have learned over thousands of years and bring key concepts in a very practical and accessible to most interested Kenyan heads. My classes have a rigid structure, but is effective. I'm almost at the level of those pills that make you lose 20kg in 20 days! I undertake to teach economic principles that seem essential to awaken critical thinking in 3 days (2 hours per day). And you know the funny thing? IT WORKS! Thanks to colors, permanent interaction, technical simplification and repetition syrup Marian puts in a little bottle the old pills!

# Class1: BASIC CONCEPTS #

1. Demand




2. Supply




3. Market




4. Stock Markets, Goods & Services, Foreign Exchange and Credit Markets




5. Indicators: Inflation, Exchange Rate, Interest Rate and stock value Market Failure and Redistribution




6. Economic policies (financial and fiscal)

# Class2: REALITY #

1. Reviews and inquiries




2. Calculation of Inflation and numbers




3. Interpretation of the interest rate and numbers




4. Interpretation of the rate of Interest




5. Speculation and Arbitrage GDP




6. Cycles, Recession and Expansion




7. The crash of 1929




8. The subprime crisis

# Class3: ECONOMIC PRACTICE#

1. Reviews and Questions




2. Interpretation of the "National Plan for Development"




3. Basic Accounting

The parliament of the people is an area of Nairobi created by and for the community where people meet to exchange views on the state of Kenyan politics. It is open to the general public, mostly consisting of men and has no certain time, only local (Jevengi Garden). My organization is a platform for organizations - the "parliament of the people" is part of KENGO as an institution.

Starting the work

Hello,

Wow!

Finally y work is starting!

My main project has to do with tranning youth and provide them with knowladge on the national budget so that we can built proposals toghether for the 2010/2011 document.

I also have finish the draft of the pesonal project! Please take a look at it here:

http://amihnoquenia.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/informal_house_market_and_conflicts.pdf

I'm letting you with some movies. The first one was shot on a weekend near Nairobi, the Second one in a slum and the third one in a city called Kisumu, right next to Lake Victoria. My times in Kenya have been hard but with a lot of coulours and good surprises in the way.

Ola

Ola everyone from me Matshidiso,i am finally in Portugal and it has been more than a week here.This place is beautiful i love it already.I have a great family here at Rota Jovem and they have been taking good care of me and making sure my transition here is smooth.i was so excited to finally get here after such a long struggle and now that i am here reality is sinking in,physically i am settling in well but emotionally it is challenging.Being so far away from home,the people i love and all that is famialar to me is a bit hard on me emotionally,that is why i am glad i have more time here to adapt.im trying to get used to the cold since in Botswana it was summer.i love the food,buildings and mostly the people and learning the language.my on arrival training starts in a two days so i am excited.i will keep you all posted.

Laia from Louga, two months later

saalamalekum

..how beautiful stories are read by here, and even more how smiles on the few people who write them, eh!?

Our adventure began more than two months ago ... that's crazy!
Man yaaq na fii naari weer, two months in Louga!

And how quickly all it happens, at the same time that many things happen in so little time ;) Every day I feel that multiculturalism reaches deeper levels, I know better Wolof, and that means not only that I can communicate and express myself better but the most important thing is that I can understand more of what is happening around me. It’s as if few doors had been opened, showing, allowing me to see inside.

For me it is not so much as the fact to uncover a secret but the fact to guess a riddle with which you can then laugh sharing the solution with the person who approach it to yow.
Here in Louga I’m really feeling it. When I find a key (which may be a word or expression, or a way to do something...) and then I ask "well then here is it ...? " Or maybe I say nothing but I implement some point in my action, then the responses, the effects, are always complicity surprised faces, smiles, laughs, laughter and " ahaaaaaaaa, yow, yow xam nga eh?! Tu connais bien toi, eh?!” And more laughs! Here, people are always willing to tell you how things are here, how things are lived, how they do this and that and that... I feel it like a very rich learning and I really enjoy it every day.

During these two months, my work experience has focused on the tourist village of FESFOP, my first experience in this field. So I can not figure what I have learned about responsible tourism, tourism management, accounting management, bla bla bla … but if I must to stay the most relevant of all of them, undoubtedly I would say the initiation into the "work in Wolof mind", it seems I’ve approached the concept of “the work” here, the way they work, how they feel and live it. A great lesson! When I see the way they take the time, their concepts such as efficiency, effectiveness, probability ... then I see also mine, my way to work, my concepts, what I’ve learned in my life until now… And certainly I show it just because I do like this.

I thought about the bilingual dictionaries,

and all the side effects can have…
Our “work” really not seems the same of their “work”

Then, I’ve seen the challenge: work team going together to the balance, to the adaptation for find the point where maximum good is made. It is an amazing (and not so easy) experiment!
The other volunteers, are you also feeling these differences and experimenting with them? What are your feelings on this?

My best wishes to euroafrican team!
Long live interculturalism!

Jamm ak jam

Laia Pibernat to Louga