Saturday, December 5, 2009

prepare today, drink tomorrow

in the shabeen, the local amazing breweries of the settlements, you will always find local people in the amazing art of getting drunk. in the supermarkets there is this powder for home made beer (kind of beer). the slogan written on the pack is excellent: prepare today, drink tomorrow.it just gives you the right input, the time waiting, is the time worth it.
i have wireless connection in this lovely lodge in Gweta. there is basically nothing interesting in gweta, but i enjoyed the swimming pool and a niice dinner, and a glass of wine.doing my laundry now. Something i noticed first in peru, and confirm now: one of the most revolutionary facts of the past century has been the arrival of the washing machine. i think of my grandmother washing in the river. it is just time consuming. boring. energy consuming. making your hands look bad and  hurt. thank you washing machine, for improving life of every woman in this modern world.

the more  we travel together, the more we are into this religious topic, feeling of redemption and ways to access the reign of god. is clear that the easiest way is to set up our own religion, to guarantee that we are on the right side. and the more we define details about that, the more we meet people concerned about the bible and redemption. a woman at the bar, she was quite sad because old and with children to grow up and no husband. all the men she  meets are drunkers. no good husbands for her. she doesn't drink. we were talking and she started saying : why do you drink? you don't need to. the bible says that there will come a day when there will be no more Windhoek Lager anymore."
Me "can I have a schwepps lemon for that day?"
her "no, there will be no more bars.  so why do you drink beer? you can stop now if you want."
taking away my Windhoek Lager from my hand.
then i though about will power. and i though ok, i can stop about any pleasure of life now. quit with chocolate. quit with pasta. quit with pfefferminze tee. but, then, why should i? give me back my beer, please.

and there is also a lot of people from the church of Zion, who adore this Zion as a new jesus, but i didn get all details  yet.
we don't discriminate and we accept saliva from everybody.


so, updating about science facts>
240 samples.
30 villages visited.
13 San linguistic groups met.
keep on going.

and now, just cause this laptop is in german but with an english mixed mysterious typing set making me freaking up (our dear linguistic assistant just gave me german stuff), i stop writing and i try to upload... pictures!!!

love - in the swimming pool
K

1 comment:

  1. This "Beer religion" is really cool!! i'm sorry that i can't drink too much because i puke. but i can learn:
    don't drink other people's beer;
    don't desire other people's beer;
    don't steal other people's beer;
    don't pronunce the name of Beer in vain;
    and so on.... fantastic!!
    I think that in Germany this religion could work!!

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