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Mission: review

My second week in PCR ends (almost) already. This week, the main annoyance came from worries network. Power cuts are a bit more episodic (one per play average), but they are devastating for the equipment (second hand) for e managed by the association. Thus, one of them has burned Wednesday HDD machine acting as a server, and e was found two days without Internet connection. Hard when you know it is their main activity (the other two being part of a photocopying and scanning documents, and other training Windows, Word, Excel and internet). The association would really need a UPS to prevent such failures ... FYI, this is the only cyber-profit, non-profit, therefore, the district Boulmiougou (100,000 inhabitants). He enjoys rates 3-4 times lower than those of private cyber, while remaining slight profit (expenses relate mainly electricity and salaries of two secretaries and guard).

Training of trainers was completed Friday. By early next week, it was for them to act! I'm still behind them to guide and counselor, because they are young (they return to class of 3rd, 2nd or 1st!), and have no experience. In particular, I was told that here it is particularly difficult for young people to assert its authority over to someone older, or that the situation they will face.

In detail, I have briefly formed Calc (similar to Excel: it was laborious, because they lack the necessary perspective to understand the benefits of this software) and Impress (equivalent of Powerpoint). Then, just to get them more involved, I asked them to reflect on the training they will deliver on all three software Writer, Calc and Impress, as follows:
1) individually, listing the concepts to be addressed, and in what order;
2) sharing and discussion (under my direction);
3 ) brainstorming to find a "common thread" to the local context;
4) creation of documents or drafts which rely on people following the training. They
reads a short text on Burkina Faso for training Writer (learners will copy the text and format it), Calc sheet prepared a simple budget treating their team handball, and wrote several drafts of complete texts on Ouagadougou for the slides during the formation Impress.
We'll see next week how it goes!

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second week Family and Women

Among African specificities although present in Burkina Faso, in addition to the patience and hospitality of the people, there are two which are very surprising for a Westerner.

The first concerns the central place played by the family, broadly defined. I have already told how the Burkinabe all live under one roof within an extended family. We must understand that the links between family members are very strong, and we can not survive here alone. There is a hierarchy clear within a family: the patriarch has absolute power, in return he is responsible for the livelihood of the entire family. Following him, everyone obeys without question any older person and the same sex. I was quite surprised as it comes from how Mahamadi, who is head of family as the eldest son of the patriarch died, RBI bluntly to his younger brothers, and how they run without flinching, even when they are teenagers! But when one of his sisters was hit by a car, it Mahamadi who handled everything from coaching hospital, the complaint to the police, etc..

The second tradition, which is proving quite shocking to a Westerner, is fairly related to the first and concerns the place of women. Here we consider (including younger men, and quite a few women) that men's role is to bring money home to support family and that of women is to maintain the house and care for children. Thus, women prepare meals for men (it is rare that they do so, except when they live alone, for example when students are), eat with friends, but they eat separately. Men give really feel like being served by women when they return from work. Unlikely to see a man with housework or child rearing! Two other small illustrations of the image of women in Africa: a woman smoking a cigarette is considered a prostitute, and it is customary for a woman to marry before 24 years (27 for men but those that I know must have reached the limit without being married, although they are a couple). Another figure: in the sixth grade of a member of ACP (teacher of history and geography), the school year started with 10 pregnancies. The girls had 12 to 14 years. Men here are still very reluctant to see women occupying positions of responsibility, and consider the case when they are abusing their power over men.

In terms of relationships, after considerable discussion with members of the ACP that I frequent daily (all male), it appears that marriage, or at least have a relationship "official" serves primarily to preserve harmonious family relationships described above. The flirting and infidelity are part of African culture ", as I said a member of the association. Polygamy is theoretically banned in Burkina Faso, but until one time she remained admitted for Muslims and animists (cf. Mahamadi's uncle and his three wives, whom I mentioned last time). Many men are still considering the present.

Finally, I leave everyone free to judge these practices as they wish. I do note here that these cultural differences, and I think it is difficult to have an objective opinion without understanding the full context.

soon.

*****
Response to Fabrice:
there are about 80 students per class, so logically forty girls (I do not think there is discrimination this level). If 10 were pregnant during the year, it's been a quarter of girls in the class! To abortion I do not know, but I do think that it is not practiced too expensive and for Catholics not consistent with what the Pope said. They will not all be dismissed, it depends if the father has or not. And if the father does not, there are also families comprehensive ...
But if the plan to open a training center for young unwed mothers wishes to heart Mahamadi and CPA is that the problem of rejection of these people are alive and well.

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Unusual Hotels

Hotel Taoist gods


It's unlikely that you would spend your holidays in the Chinese city of Yanjiao anonymous, and yet at the sight of this incredible hotel one would be tempted 'make a stop there!

The Tianzi Hotel, unlike any other hotel in the world: a strange building painted in the familiar form of the Chinese Taoist trinity. The Giants are known as Fu Lu and Shou. Their names mean "good fortune", "prosperity" and "longevity", and are traditionally regarded as the three attributes of a healthy lifestyle.



Fishing in the left hand Shou is not only a classic symbol of long life, but also the imperial suite of the hotel, two small holes in the front are the windows!

This hotel is probably most strange and unusual that is on earth.



idea to dig!

delusional concept for this five-star hotel located in an old quarry town of Songjiang near Shanghai. The resort, currently under construction, will include a 400-bed hotel, a conference room for over a thousand people, restaurants and a multitude of sports and leisure infrastructure (swimming pool, climbing walls, jumping the elastic ...). Hotel Songjiang in itself will rise two stories above the cliff of 100 meters, on two levels and plunge under water or aquarium will house a giant!





Cleopatra in Shanghai

For those who want to become stars for a night or spend a honeymoon in a dream room, a theme hotel in Shanghai offers decorated in the style of the greatest romantic movies.

Do they provide a bath in asses' milk in the room Cleopatra?




Damage

film by Louis Malle




Farewell My Concubine

Chinese film director Chen Kaige




Gladiator







Gone with the Wind





Titanic sink into a deep sleep in the room Titanic



Hydropalace

Scheduled to open in 2009, hydropalace to Qingdao in East China will be anchored in the Yellow Sea to twenty meters deep under water. Guests will access the land yacht.



Canning

A Chinese hotel in Chengdu in Sichuan province (southwest) offers its clients sleep in boxes like large coffins.
Despite the uncomfortable conditions, it costs 2,400 yuan (270 euros), equivalent to the price of a room in a five star hotel, renting a wooden box as a bed for one night.

Via China Information




Hotel Stories

But what may be happening in a modest hotel room in China? That's what we wanted to meet photographers Chile and Liu Song, inspired by the works of American photographer Wade Lyon, imagining the story of a hotel room with the passage of its various customers.

Comrades migrants



First Chinese emotions, and me and me and me ...

Both photographers give us glimpses of Chinese life by revealing in a way a bit cartoonish - but! - A series of portraits lofoques and yet so close to reality.




Maochiste




little dance with friends




On the crime scene

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Y'a no problem !

Hello,
to begin, I want to on my previous post about the environment in which I am immersed. While Burkina Faso is a poor country (172nd out of 174 in the Human Development Index), but in any case in Ouagadougou, it is not complete misery. As I said Salif, a member of ACP, an African proverb says: "If God does not love, it makes you born in Mali. If you hate it, it makes you born in Burkina Faso. And if really does not want you, it makes you born in Niger. " Here, unlike in Niger, therefore, it is not famine, although some families have to settle for one meal a day and it is poignant to see the kids in rags and barefoot in the street playing ball with a ball to the hoop or burst with an old tire moped.

I think my guests are part of the upper middle class: they all went to university, which after a ferry A1, which after a ferry G2 (but having the tank here is no picnic), have continued at least until the Masters, and many have stable employment office (accountant, college professor, ...). Mahamadi was the National School of Administration and Magistracy and is "advisor for economic affairs." He expects to know his assignment. However, I met a family of one of his uncles died today (2 of his 3 women and one of his son): these do not go to school, do not speak French (which is yet the country's official language) and are probably illiterate. They live much more difficult to clear, the two women, aged between 60 and 65, are well over 30. When we know that life expectancy here is 47 years, it situates ... Similarly, among all the kids in the family, the only one who is not afraid of the "White" and which is immediately came to me puzzled, is a nephew of Mahamadi 4 years old, Fadil. Fadil already understands and speaks fluent French. His cousins, however, older but who do not yet in school and only speak a few words of French (and again), however, are still intimidated by my presence, even a week after my arrival. It was quite sympathized with Fadil is an energetic and curious boy. He loved taking pictures with my digital camera, but it is no longer possible because it broke (it was a bit forced manually zoom) ... Accordingly, I am sorry but I can not put photos on this blog!





The culprit (the last photo is a self-portrait)



People here are very hospitable. They constantly ask me if I adapt well, if not too hot (it is over 40 ° C every day, rain is expected), so I support the local food ... I am sometimes shout at by kids in the street "Nassara!" Which means "White!" in the local language, Moré, but it's still just to say hello and ask if perhaps I'm fine. Unlike other African countries, I do not feel that people expect gifts or trying to steal the whites. I was told that that would make it risked being lynched by others, too concerned the image of hospitality they provide.

Here we see a lot of people on the streets doing nothing, just wait. The wait is really part of local culture and people are in no hurry and have no strict schedule, they adapt. Example: when a power outage prevents computer training to start on time at the cyber, people are waiting quietly 1:30 the power comes back, sitting on chairs doing nothing. I think for a European support it, it must be in a holiday mood, and especially not trying to set too many constraints. Anyway with water shortages and electricity and the oppressive heat, which prevents making anything between 13:00 and 16:00, we are inevitably forced to adapt. As we say here at every turn: "there's no problem!". Another funny expression heard quite a few times: "(...) or good? " end of the sentence, as in Switzerland or to Grenoble ("you come with us, or else?").

To end on schedule, they are roughly as follows: wake up around 5:00 to the sound of the muezzin and roosters. Women and children began their day shortly after, while I royally granted me a lie until about 6:30 to 7:00. If electricity is there training cyber PCR 8:00 (Officially, in fact it starts earlier than 8:30, the time everyone arrives) at 12:30 or 13:00. Lunch and nap (for me especially, who have struggled with the heat - it's either for local or chatter nap) until 4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., or return to the cyber discussion or another until about 20:00, lunch around 21:00, then discussion to the end of the night ... 23.00 for me, rather 1.00am to areas with very little sleep, 4-5 hours per night. But hey, apparently "there's no problem!
soon.

PS: my local phone number if some of you want to have fresh news: (00 226) 78 46 27 96.

*****
Response to Fabrice:
cover all the palaver! On the killer with an ax, on the outcome of football on so and so's girlfriend found stuck or not nice on-so that has to worry how to help. In short, as the discussions bistro in France

:-) Good point on the expectation of life at birth is, of course. Infant mortality is high enough, I do not count the number of kids I was told about the death (aged about 7 years for most).

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Mission: review first week

My first week in PCR was marked by cuts current, and of course the exceptional hospitality of its members, and Burkina Faso in general.

The section on training of trainers in office has been delayed, as 4 sessions took place while he will need at least 8. I offered to switch from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice, a proposal immediately accepted by Mahamadi, Chairman of CPA, but requires an introduction to instructors, who know only Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. These future trainers are 4 neighborhood youth, 17 to 19, who are doing a bit with a computer but not computer. They will have to form part of the local population that has never touched a computer keyboard or a mouse.

present and previous years, training is provided by a young and Mahamadi than twenty years, which is responsible for computer maintenance that manages cyber ACP. This training is conducted in 4 parts: discovery of the keyboard and the Windows environment, discovery of Microsoft Word, Excel, and introduction to web (create a mailbox, etc.).. These two people will no longer have time to provide such training, so they want the youth in question took over.

My program for the coming week is whether Sonabel (National Electricity Company) permitting, to finish forming the 4 youths in question on OpenOffice, talk to them about teaching and develop with them a training program tailored to local needs OpenOffice (the examples I have provided in their exercises are designed to Westerners!). The next step, from the weekend normally, will train members of the ACP web site design, and tell them about computer maintenance (Down with the virus! As I write this message, j 'I started Avast Antivirus on the PC which looks to me the most infested ...).

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Response to Fabrice:
not UPS, but it became the top priority one for the internet! I do not know how the material is to hold, it will last perhaps not for long. The cuts are due to lack of rain, the two dams that supplies electricity Ouaga are dry, and there is no connection yet with neighboring countries to import (but it is expected, with the Coast d'Ivoire). According to the national electricity company, cuts are expected until late December! Normally a schedule of cuts per sector is fixed, but it is not respected.

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Environment ouagalais

Hello!
In this new post I want to tell you a little radical change of scenery that I live in Ouagadougou. I'll start by describing the environment in which I find myself, I'll tell you another day habits, surprising for a Westerner, the Burkinabe.

Mahamadi I live with a home that looks like all those in the neighborhood (Pissy, in the 17th district, south-west of Ouagadougou). A "home" consists of several distinct blocks, without floor (except attic), around a courtyard. Each block has a couple or an adult member of the family (the African family is to be understood broadly: patriarch and his or her wife (s), their - many - son and their wives and children of these, Many also of course). In the yard going about in a free chickens, dogs and goats.

Mahamadi block is about 30 m ^ 2 and has one bedroom + living area (lounge has a small kitchenette with a simple gas stove and fridge - not connected ...). The bathroom consists of a single shower (no shower head hose, as in the locker room of sports!) With cold water only. But it's not a big problem given the climate :-) No furniture or sink. The toilets are in a cabin deep in the court: it is a simple hole, surrounded by a horde of flies and mosquitoes ...

Some houses have no running water, so I see every day people come to the water pump located next to the cyber to fill their water bottles. We had three days off of water until today at Mahamadi: shower bucket of water required! It reminds you of memories of Mary Central Asia?

Power cuts are frequent, as mentioned above: several hours every day in this period. But at least we have electricity, unlike other parts of the city! Neon lighting only, and no public lighting: it is pitch dark at 18:30. However, fans (who sometimes lurch dangerously ...) at all ceilings, and in at least Mahamadi nets to all windows.

More surprisingly, everyone has, and makes extensive use of a cellphone last generation, often containing two SIM cards! The iPod is also furious at the moment. I'll come back next time on television of Burkina Faso, among other things.

level infrastructure, only the main roads are paved (and sometimes very bumpy). Most are in the ground, where tan dust that flies continuously in the air ... like flies. Few cars, mostly to the huge 4x4 (bigger than those seen in France) with tinted windows, and old Mercedes. I have not checked if, as I said Francis, they all have at least 500,000 km on the clock! Almost everyone travels by bicycle or motorbike. Without a helmet, it's too hot! With this form of transport that members of the ACP transport me from one place to another. I also saw a few carts pulled by donkeys. People that carry bulky goods or put them on the rack their bikes, with a balance that is breathtaking, either on their head ... and in this case they run off!

soon for a small paragraph on the habits and customs of Burkina Faso.
*****

Response to Fabrice: I brought
tablets to purify water, but they made me drink bottled water routinely (despite my complaints, because it costs them a lot). Hospitality Burkina Faso ...

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Start my mission

Hello everyone!
Here is a first live message from Ouagadougou. In fact I have written (on paper) this morning during a period of idleness this morning, cutting electricity required. Power cuts are frequent in Ouagadougou (several per day), and sometimes last several hours, as this morning. Suffice to say that it makes my training mission computer!

I arrived Saturday night and I was warmly greeted by several members of ACP. I hosted the first 15 days in Mahamadi, president of the association, and then I'll be staying with another member of the association named Thomas. Everybody is extraordinarily considerate with me, beyond the known hospitality of Burkina Faso, my luck is that Mahamadi and Thomas spent 15 days in France last spring, invited by an association named Toulouse Dunes leeward which ACP is a partner (it is this association that gave them the hardware they have) and has extremely good care of them. They want to give back to the French crossing :-)

Team ACP showed me his actions and his cyber [no coffee] Sunday, but I'm really back in the thick of the action yesterday, Monday, with the onset of computer training. And as expected, we had to adapt to the unexpected :-) I had prepared on my USB all the documents I needed, but the computers are infested cyber virus, which erased everything to me. So I spent the morning re-downloads of these papers (I had the presence of mind to put on a website ...), at dizzying speed 4 kb / s, and install OpenOffice on the machines. The first webcam was also installed, the others will be later, when the CPA has found a safe place for storage because there are apparently frequent flights in such places (even flying mouse! And not in weightlessness with CNES! [private joke for members of EVASION]). We finally decided to make a radical cleaning machines by formatting and reinstalling Windows (XP), but suddenly it took then reinstall OpenOffice ... The afternoon was held (with an hour late,
due to power failure ...) an introduction to computers for neighborhood residents, organized by ACP, in which 5 people (young: 15 to 25 years) were enrolled. In two hours it was really Basics: Exploring the Windows environment and keyboarding (final exercise: a small copy in Word text provided on paper - have at least 5 minutes per line ...). To some people who wanted to immediately extend the training and learning new things, Mahamadi said he should have practiced before going further, with which I agree completely. Following the formation therefore takes place in 3 days, with an introduction to Word. Meanwhile, these people can return to cyber when they wish to exercise. The training lasts a full ten hours, and also includes an introduction to Excel and Internet navigation. Tonight, another group of 4 people (young adults) follows this course.

soon in my next post I'll give you my first impressions of life in Burkina Faso, because I'm really immersed myself and we met a lot of people (who is home during their lives!). I will return later on my contribution to the training site: I have already convinced Mahamadi to abandon Microsoft Office and switch to OpenOffice

:-) PS: no pictures, too long to load!

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One foot in China






feet mutilated

For over 1000 years, Chinese mothers have wrapped the feet of their daughters tight bandages to make them as small as possible. This fashion has emerged in China in the year 950 AD.







Take your foot

Originally it was a custom of the courtesans of the imperial court, which gradually spread all social classes. Favored by the Chinese education where the submission and social conformity are very important, this tradition was perpetuated from generation to generation.







Happiness is in the foot

The Chinese are so confident that this atrophy depends on the prestige family. In their eyes, a young girl who has no feet will never find a husband that brings credit to his family. The size of the foot, with little shoes become a true criterion of beauty.








Podophiles Chinese


The foot in China, is part of the body most sensual. As evidenced by the Chinese erotic books cataloged every possible way to use bound feet, considered erogenous zones. One can also see a way to restrict the freedom of women because become adults, their approach could only be slow and difficult.









Obviously it was not up to the girls. Not only were they deprived of their freedom of movement, but they also had to undergo excruciating pain.






The imperial edicts of 1902 prohibit the foot deformity. Then a big step for improving the status of women in China ...

But it was not until 1911 and the birth of the Republic so that effective measures are taken. Today it is very rare to meet a women with small feet, or so it's only natural ....

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Talon nail

It parrait that today are still similar practices against women around the world. These, under the influence of fashion and social pressure that values long poles instead of the little beauties would be forced to raise on breeches incongruous and very uncomfortable. To make their efforts more difficult they would be perched on some sort heel needles or nail heel! But why are they so difficult for males?








Small and large size

The smallest man with the Chinese shoe Chinese Bao Xishun the tallest man in the world.







Feet reversed


Wang Fang a young woman of 27 years, living in the city of Chongqing in China, was born with his feet backwards, and advance it losqu'elle backtracked and losqu'elle it back early!





mouth disease foot hand







Another example of a malformed foot wonderfully circumvented by the dancer known as "the dancer with little hands!






In many countries, being born with six toes on each foot (exadactilie) is considered a lucky omen. In 2008 a Chinese baby born with 8 toes on each foot. Knowing that the lucky number 8 in China, how lucky!







Imprints feet were embedded naturally in the woods by a Buddhist monk of 70 years named Hua Chi who used to come to make his pieres several times a day at that location for over 20 years.










wear and time have formed in the floor of the temple of Tongren this dual footprint.









It is said that this monk in an age full of youth and enthusiasm, came to worship in this place more than 3000 times per day!









Foot massage

techniques of foot massage was first developed in ancient China. The foot massage is also based on reflexology, a technique of pressure by the fingers on different parts of the foot which would have a significant impact on the rest of the body.


ears in the toes





Reflexology helps stimulate blood circulation and lymphatic drainage using fingers to act on the reflex zones, each leg comprising 7200 terminations nerve! Thus, for an insect bite to the ear is better to scrape the toe ...


In China it is said that when touching the feet, touches the soul.





Footbath

An essential foot care is a hot tub herbal or flower petals.






mass over me

Full body massage with the feet and legs. A nice way to get stepped on!





Take her legs around his neck

Ashiatsu massage is a massage of Japanese origin played with the feet. It comes from the word ashi meaning foot and ATSU meaning pressure. Ashiatsu massage is sometimes referred to as barefoot Shiatsu with.





By having full back

gluteal and lumbar massage.





Layoff





Ouch! it feels good ...





head between her thighs

Everyone knows men love to snuggle into the bosom of their beloved. For single insomniacs looking for a little tenderness, a pair of thighs foam will do.





Thighs Madame

The expression "sleep on two legs" remains to be invented. This has been done since the creation of this unusual pillow, which if not very comfortable, will be a nice leg set for a perfect sleep.






2000 participants are gathered in Taipei for a reflexology session by mass. For the record is approved by Guinness, each foot must be massaged at least 5 minutes








Fish Massage

Chinese spa centers offer their clients come for Chewable and foot massage by small fish-eating men.







Fish medics

The "Fish medics" or Garra rufa clean the skin by feeding on dead skin.







omnivorous fish

For once the men serve meals to fish!







Chinese shrimp fricassee

It wiggles in the pool!







Foot potato

A potato that looks like a human foot is the happiness of a Chinese Wuhai in eastern China.







The great leap forward


Seen at the closing ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games stilts urban land in China.

jumping stilts are calls in the sense of balance and function due to the pressure exerted on the spring leaf on the back of the equipment. Their spring fiberglass, converts the pressure that the user generates by pushing it up and throws you in




German in origin, the invention date of 2003. The powerbocking or Bocking (From the name of its inventor, Mr. Bock) consists of power walking, running, jumping and acrobatics on stilts fitted with a spring-blade fiberglass rear
These stilts can run up to 40 km / h jumping over 2 meters in height and not make nearly 3 meters long!








Chinese Theater Stilt








Stilts Olympic














Chicken feet

In China the chicken legs are a delicacy much appreciated. Often, to our amazement, they were like fish head, which is offered to guests.



Many shops specialize in the sale of offal legged chicken or squid, pig's ear, neck and head duck, pig's foot in gelatin ... There's room for all the (dis) taste!