Articles tagged ‘Random Stuff’

Book Recommendation

By BootsnAll | January 11th, 2003 | Comments Off

I’ve just finished reading a book called My Forbidden Face: Growing up under the Taliban by a 22 year old Afghan woman called Latifa. She was 16 and from an educated muslim family, her mother’s a doctor and father’s a businessman, and living in Kabul when the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan. The family [...]

 

Unwanted Export

By BootsnAll | January 10th, 2003 | 2 Comments »

I watched an interesting documentry tonight on the gang culture in El Salvador. The programme was looking at the growth of street gangs that mirror gangs in L.A. because they’ve been started and get a lot of their members from Salvadorians who are deported from the US.
During the eighties, thousands and thousands of people fled [...]

 

A Beautiful Day

By BootsnAll | January 9th, 2003 | 2 Comments »

We had clear blue skies and a little light breeze here today, some of the snow from yesterday was still on the ground but most had melted. A perfect day for a long walk out in the country, which I didn’t manage to get having to work. Hertford where I live and work is surrounded [...]