Day 304 { New ALT From Zimbabwe / Yes Man} - Saturday, January 17, 2009

Day 304 {Yes Man / New ALT From Zimbabwe }

Today I completed watching Yes Man with Jim Carey...It wasn't too bad at all but Jim Carey was tamer than normal. I got a few laughs out of it though. I give it about a 6/10 ... Later today, the IC that brought me to Niimi and helped me to get my car, called me out of the blue and told me to meet her at the restaurant near to me. when I got there she introduced me to this new ALT guy who will be sitting in for another ALT who is sick. He is from Zimbabwe but going against what your mind is probably already thinking, he is white. He said that everywhere he goes people are shocked that a white man is from Zimbabwe...Well he was born in eastern Europe though but most of his time was spent in Zimbabwe. 

In the short time we met this guy, he told us a couple a interesting stories. Like how elephants are more dangerous than lions. He said the most dangerous is the hippo, seconded by crocodiles and snakes then the elephants coming in fourth. He said lions don't really chase people, well that's unless you actually start to run from it and chances are if you stand up, face them and tap your foot, it might run away... Just don't turn your back or that might be the end of you right there..... But the elephants will chase you, whether you choose to stand up, run, walk, hop or skip and even flip your vehicle and stomp the heck out of it while you are inside.

He also mentioned that Zimbabwe is full of diamonds and that Robert Mugabe (their president) used to pay his army and police with diamonds...So they would support him to the end. Mugabe, he said is almost untouchable and is seen almost as a demi-god in Zimbabwe to many. He mentioned that even though Mugabe is kind of like an evil mad man, he said that the guys who own the diamond companies, make Mugabe look like an angel... They profit and make millions of dollars from these poverty stricken people killing off each other...If you have never watched the movie blood diamond... 

Then I suggest that you take a look at it... This guy said that the stuff in the movie is still happening today... He said that many of these multimillion dollar big wig diamond guys, purposely assist and aid instability in these diamond areas on the African continent, ultimately killing hundreds of thousands. The guy even said that 90% of the diamonds worn in the world are probably blood diamond. Hmmm makes you think how messed up this world is...Africa is so rich with all these natural resources but has the poorest set of people on the planet...It makes me wonder if anything at all can be done to make this continent better in any way.

So the following 9 countries in Africa, has diamond mines:

Angola

Botswana

Congo

Lesotho

Namibia

Sierra Leone

South Africa

Tanzania

Zimbabwe

I wonder if any of the companies that mine these diamonds are owned by a black man... hmmmm...