So, last night after I finished posting on my blog and then I turned off my computer. Then I heard yelling. Two guys were fighting on the street beside my house! For those of you who have never been to my house, I live in a quiet residential area with virtually no crime and definately no street fights. There was the infamous beebee gun incident years ago, but aside from that nothing really ever happens here.
At least, not until last night, rather this morning at about 1:30am. My parents called the police and as I stood by an open window listening to what was going on I got to piece together what was happening. One guy was very drunk and very angry and really wanted to go and kill his girlfriend. The other guy was pining him to the ground telling his friend that there was no f*#@king way he was letting him up. This of course made angry drunk guy much angrier but he was thankfully really really drunk, so all his yelling and struggling didn't get him very far. I actually have alot of respect for the friend because he put up with a lot of abuse and held his friend down for at least forty minutes. The only time angry drunk guy got away, he ran head first into our fence post. He didn't get far. The police finally showed up and almost wanted to arrest the friend of angry drunk guy until my dad went out and explained what was going on to the cops.
Crazy night!
Sunday, August 13, 2006
what the world needs now...
My last post seemed a little whiny. I have a job at zehrs, and right now I am temping at my friend Pam's office as an office lackey and tonight I had a great family dinner and no one fought at all. It was lovely. So my little world is really great.
The rest of the world seems to have gone to shit.
I finally watched the movie Hotel Rwanda tonight. Having read Romeo Dallaire's book as well as several others on the subject and having studied the conflict in a few of my classes at school, I knew what I would see. That did not stop me from again being surprised at the extent to which people can hurt eachother. Of course this movie shows the courage of the people who worked to stop the conflict and save lives, but it is mind numbing to think about what has to happen for a nation to descend into that kind of hell.
Now with the terrorist plot uncovered in the UK and the war in Israel/Lebonon and in Israel/Palistine as well as all the wars still raging in Africa that are ignored by the rest of the world - Sudan, DRC,Western Sahara,Somolia and others - it is heartbreaking and incomprehensible.
Sometimes, given what I have studied and what we are bombarded with in the media, I can get overwhelmed with the magnitude of what is wrong with our world. It seems hopeless, like no matter what good cannot win. One war ends, another begins. One nation or community or family, is able to pull itself out of the mire and begin to be better, more peaceful and good but another is pulled down. It is easy for me to forget that there is hope, that Good has already won. Our world is still in bondage to sin, but the ropes have been cut and it is only a matter of time.
The rest of the world seems to have gone to shit.
I finally watched the movie Hotel Rwanda tonight. Having read Romeo Dallaire's book as well as several others on the subject and having studied the conflict in a few of my classes at school, I knew what I would see. That did not stop me from again being surprised at the extent to which people can hurt eachother. Of course this movie shows the courage of the people who worked to stop the conflict and save lives, but it is mind numbing to think about what has to happen for a nation to descend into that kind of hell.
Now with the terrorist plot uncovered in the UK and the war in Israel/Lebonon and in Israel/Palistine as well as all the wars still raging in Africa that are ignored by the rest of the world - Sudan, DRC,Western Sahara,Somolia and others - it is heartbreaking and incomprehensible.
Sometimes, given what I have studied and what we are bombarded with in the media, I can get overwhelmed with the magnitude of what is wrong with our world. It seems hopeless, like no matter what good cannot win. One war ends, another begins. One nation or community or family, is able to pull itself out of the mire and begin to be better, more peaceful and good but another is pulled down. It is easy for me to forget that there is hope, that Good has already won. Our world is still in bondage to sin, but the ropes have been cut and it is only a matter of time.
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
new job....yahoo...?
Well, I am officially employed.
By a grocery store. I will be working with Steph which is GREAT! I haven't had many jobs with fun people so that will be fun. But I am a cashier at a grocery store working for a meager 7.75 an hour. Boo. So, obviously not my dream job, but it is a pay check which is really important right now. Also, I am applying back at, thats right, Starbucks. Sigh. They are opening another store in town and they need people so I will get hired. Maybe even as a shift supervisor. I liked working at Starbucks, so this is not a horrible thing, and I get lots of free coffee (yahoo!) but I don't feel like I am going anywhere. sigh.
This post is a little pessimistic. I really am glad to have a job and a paycheck and neither job is heinous or vile so things are ok. I will keep looking for a "real" job. At least now I will not be bored stupid. Yahoo!
Oh ya, and I heard about the call centre job. Apparently they don't want me. My best friend works in HR at the company and was told that my written french wasn't up to snuff (funny since the job doesn't require much written french and they have hired people without it before...) but I think it was because when they asked about what kind of work environment I expected I said supportive and enthusiastic. They had weird looks on their faces like both concepts were foreign to them, so I think that may have been it. But they should have hired me. I am cool and they loose!
By a grocery store. I will be working with Steph which is GREAT! I haven't had many jobs with fun people so that will be fun. But I am a cashier at a grocery store working for a meager 7.75 an hour. Boo. So, obviously not my dream job, but it is a pay check which is really important right now. Also, I am applying back at, thats right, Starbucks. Sigh. They are opening another store in town and they need people so I will get hired. Maybe even as a shift supervisor. I liked working at Starbucks, so this is not a horrible thing, and I get lots of free coffee (yahoo!) but I don't feel like I am going anywhere. sigh.
This post is a little pessimistic. I really am glad to have a job and a paycheck and neither job is heinous or vile so things are ok. I will keep looking for a "real" job. At least now I will not be bored stupid. Yahoo!
Oh ya, and I heard about the call centre job. Apparently they don't want me. My best friend works in HR at the company and was told that my written french wasn't up to snuff (funny since the job doesn't require much written french and they have hired people without it before...) but I think it was because when they asked about what kind of work environment I expected I said supportive and enthusiastic. They had weird looks on their faces like both concepts were foreign to them, so I think that may have been it. But they should have hired me. I am cool and they loose!
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
jobhunt continued
Well, the interview last week went well enough. I had to translate a letter into french and I was giggling while I did it because I didn't know words like accounts or processing so I made them up. It was fun. One of the women interviewing me was named Laura and she said they should hire me just because of my name. So far I haven't heard back from them but apparently they aren't really organized when it comes to hiring. So we'll see. I'm not really sure I want the job anyway since it is really boring, but it is money. I am also applying to Zhers where Steph works. This is not my dream job either, but again it is a pay check.
This whole process of job hunting for crapy jobs I don't really want is making me a little crazy. I don't know exactly what I want to do for my real job anyway, and now I am starting to question what I am doing and where I am going. I won't get into it here because it is really depressing me! I would love to be back in SA right now. It is so hot here it feels like it anyway, but there is no Indian Ocean to make the heat worth it!
This whole process of job hunting for crapy jobs I don't really want is making me a little crazy. I don't know exactly what I want to do for my real job anyway, and now I am starting to question what I am doing and where I am going. I won't get into it here because it is really depressing me! I would love to be back in SA right now. It is so hot here it feels like it anyway, but there is no Indian Ocean to make the heat worth it!
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