Africa's women last and least in food crisis
Cultural expectations ensure women are hardest hit amid growing scarcity:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25757291/I get a lot of news from setting msn.com as homepage. This is gonna be a short one. Kays so this is how I spent my day:
1. Had a cramp in my left leg at around nine plus. Screamed, because it hurt so much and I couldn't move it. My mum fixed it for me, then I drifted back to sleep cos of the pain.
2. Woke up and walked with a limp.
3. Studied Acids Bases and Salts.
4. Had breakfast.
5. Studied 3/4 of Acids Bases and Salts.
6. Slacked, lying on my bed.
7. Turned on the lappy for a few hours, with chocolate and biscuits in between.
8. Had something to eat. Soup that's made from onion, celery (still think it's nicer than bell peppers!), tomato, carrot. With a mashed hard boiled egg.
9. More soup with rice!
10. Feeling the effects of gastric, but not grinding pain in my tummy. More of nausea and giddiness.
11. Writhed under my blanket for one hour trying to rest.
12. Dinner part 2. More rice, with the last egg and the little bit of soup left. (grr they ate everything! ah well, doubt I could stomach anyway)
13. Blogging, feeling the after effects of gastric.
So there, an ordinary day, with studying, slacking (mostly slacking) and a mild hit of gastric.
Read the news article :) Don't be lazy now. I can't spread awareness like this. (Damn I make myself sound so... saintly. HAHA DON'T CARE!)
My take: Just so happened that all my actions, my living environment and all conflicted so much with hers that I felt like we were living in a paradox. To think somewhere else in the world, oceans away on another continent is a woman experiencing this everyday and biting her upper lip cos she doesn't have much of a choice to start with. All while I'm staring at my lappy, having chocolate to eat, and dinner has nutritious soup with lots of veggies, and studying about acids, bases and salts.
Yet, she is a person, a female just like me. Fundamentally and anatomically, there isn't much of a difference.
Yup I do take things for granted. Life is just so unfair, ain't it? Fine fine, I'll start by having my meals on time.
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