Carnet de Voyage is simply a description of the "Voyage" of my life: Where I am from, where I have been where I want to go. It's also a description of what I like to do, my favorite music. Simplement un "voyage de la Vie.
After sharing my daily routine and my skincare routine I wanted to share with you my little recipes for Summer in this post. I have already posted in the previous one some of my drinks for Summer. I will upload more here. I share these videos because it was easier for me and more entertaining. Ok! I hope you will like them but there are more in my YouTube channel. I hope it will inspire and put a smile on your face!
This is a homemade smoothie recipe. A simple smoothie that I made at home. I just take some of the fruits that I have at home and this is what I got!
Another one:
Then, I want to share a Summer salad that I made home. This is my way to call this salad because I am in the mood of Summer! I will keep uploading my recipes here in this post. So bonne appetit!! Enjoy!
You can also make another simple one like the one I did. I had an avocado cut in slices, carrots, lettuce, tomatoes, green pepper and if you want you can add cucumber.
You are also welcome to visit my website www.patacolorcarnet.weebly.com
there are more ideas on recipes that I share in Carnet de Lifestyle section. In February 2017 I came up with these two other videos... my simple French Crepes in American version (smile)
My health snack (but you can have the English version in my channel as well)
I am spending my Summer once again in the city. I don't know...I might stay here or leave or...well I am at the point of my life where I am ready for any good adventures. I have so much to share in this post and I don't know if I will be able to do it without forgetting to mention something. There is something about me that I realized recently: Whenever or wherever I go somewhere I always want to create something. I guess this is the divine part of every human beings. I believe that wherever you are there is always something to do.
Actually, I also realized something: Happiness comes through little things that we do in life. We do not necessarily have to have expensive things to be happy simply because Happiness is a state of mind and it is a choice. Life is too short to be angry or mean or discouraged...Life is something very special. When you understand life the way God made me understanding it like, life is long and it is also short altogether. The way we count times is not the way God does. When you read the Holy Bible you will see that it is said for God a year or a day is different from the way we count years and days. So you never know when is the last time you will be able to do this or that. Just enjoy the moment and like I always say choose to be happy and spread Love around you. Be good and do good and Love God.
My Summer has started in a very special way. I left Dallas...I don't know about the rest but my people do not understand how Dallas has been an important city for me. Years before I have lived in Washington D.C I didn't have the same experience that I had with Dallas. I love you, Dallas...You were such a nice city I am going to miss you so much! I have met nice people there and some cute squirrels. I don't know...But I am also happy to be here in D.C I think my state of mind is really different from years before. I guess I am more positive and like I said earlier more opened to new adventures! I enjoy being here as well. There are so many interesting activities around. If there weren't I would still create my own activities anyway lol! When I left Dallas in the afternoon my heart was a little bit sad. That was a huge part of my life that I left behind. Nobody can understand... However, I can't keep looking back I have to move forward...Sometimes I wish I could have often a travel partner I just don't like taking planes on my own anymore. Am I the only one feeling this way? Hum...Maybe because I am getting old I don't know but I just wish I could have a travel partner sometimes with time.
Leaving Dallas at DFW airport. I was sad...
The trip was a little bit long because there were late flights. It felt strange to be sitting at the Dallas airport and thinking I might be not coming back. I had most of my trips from DFW (Dallas Fort Worth International airport) there. It is a nice and big airport actually! I really mean it They changed and they upgraded many things again. They are doing a great job making the city looks wonderful. Well, there is something which is sure to happen is change. Change is constant...and we must adapt to it no matter what. Change has always been a word that I knew since my young age and sometimes I was glad that change happened but sometimes...not at all. What can you do about it? Nothing! Just adapt to it and move on.
In Washington D.C, I went out to do many personal things and also fun activities. I also went to met a friend of mine who just came to the US for the first time. He has been a long time friend and brother to me. I like what he is doing for young people. He looks for possible scholarships in universities for them and he had a presentation for that matter. He created an English school and that is his passion. Mentoring and educating young people from difficult social class families as well. I sometimes told him the best accomplishment in life is to invest in human lives and giving them the best opportunities. Also giving to anybody Education. My father always told me that Education is one of the most important things. So hats down to people like my friend who are doing a great job for their students with passion. I have to admit that it is not an easy task and I am thankful for some of my teachers/professors who made me who I am today.
As we decided to go eating out I took him to our embassy because I wanted to do it too. he dropped some invitations for the presentation of his project and his school which took place in a hotel But me I was more interested in taking my Gabon magazines. Yes, I know I am always in my world lol! The truth is I love my country and I know I will do interesting things with time back home...I even brought my favorite stone with me from my country. I posted its picture already in my previous post. This is Art and root connection. I always take something from my country with me wherever I go. It's simply a good memory
Mbigou stone from Gabon
Magazines that were given to me at Gabonese Embassy
It might take times but I know that I know that I will do interesting things especially for women and children. I have so many projects in my mind already that I wrote them somewhere. May God gives me more life and the possibility to achieve them. The day after in DC, I was so busy but I went out visiting the city.
There are so many interesting things to do such as visiting the museums and historic places as usual but you can go out for a free movie outside in the city or a free concert like the one that I attended yesterday. A Jazz concert in the garden of the museum for free and people were all there relaxed and enjoying the nice afternoon. We drank some fresh drinks and listened to music and chat then we went to eat at the restaurant. In the evening most of the restaurants are full in Washington D.C. So! I take you a day with me in Washington D.C. How about that?
Since I am here I have been so inspired. Actually, inspiration happens and I had a desire to share some of these things that I like to do as well. Have you thought about what to do during Summer? I guess yes so do I. I also have things to share with you, my daily routine since I came here. I also share the way I organize my little things.
This is for the ladies. The video is in French my apology to those who speak another language.
In the next video I show you how I organize my little beauty items etc? And you will see some of my women's perfumes choices. I like them for the reason that there are fresh they smell good and you take them when you want to feel chic! lol! I am serious guys. A lady is a lady like I like to say. To those who never thought about trying them why don't you do it? You won't be disappointed at all. I promise and you single ladies you might get a nice admirer while going at the museum! lol! I was just kidding.You know I am in a complete spirit and mood of Summer so I am really relaxed and sometimes I have a 'don't care" look as long as I am clean and that I feel comfortable
Some of my favorite perfumes for women (Coco Noir, Miss Dior and Kenzo)
This is my "Me Time" which is basically my body skin care routine.
I did even bring back my Jo Malone collection. I simply love it! I don't know how to explain it but to those who do not know a lot about Jo Malone Eau de toilette or perfumes just try them whenever you can you will understand my point. There are not too strong and they smell either flowers or fruity scents
My Jo Malone's collection are back!
You don't need too much to be happy like I said earlier in this post, simple things will make you happy too. I also wanted to share with you some of my Summer drinks that I make at home. How about that? Ok! These are two ideas below. I have posted more in my channel.
This is Summer drink one. Ok! to those who needs to understand something about my video and the music. They are mostly from the French Caribbean because this is my state of mind being in the island and these are the kind of music that I listen to too.
Summer drink two is simply some oranges and lemon
And many others in my channel...Ok! what else? I think I said all tonight. I will have a post on more social things that I like to discuss. Thank you for passing by. I do really appreciate your visit and I hope you liked this post and that you learned something new. God bless you Bye!!!
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Hello! Dear readers!!!
I hope my post will find you well today.
I just want to share with you my little getaways that I call little adventures. Last week, I went to Mena a little city in the State of Arkansas. However, I went there to sit and breathe the fresh air in the natural landscape. I like sometimes to go out of town this is something that I have been doing with my parents and I still enjoy doing it today. When I went to Washington DC, I had the same experience because sometimes the noise of the city can be too much. I am a woman from a little country in Africa and I was raised liking and loving Mother Nature. I would like to share my experience as a child and as a grown up person back in the days when I was going out of town in a special post...That happened in my country Gabon. Hmmm... I will just do that and people will have an idea of how it is to spend little vacations in an African village (I love it and I really miss it!) It is so interesting!
From now on I am preparing my trip to Africa and I hope to visit five countries within 1 or 2 months at a time. You know flight tickets to Africa is so so expensive!!! I wonder why? hmmm let's see... I will definitely share this experience with pictures of course. I have some childhood friends who are so ready to welcome me there yay!!! I hope to go to rural areas and do interesting activities with the local people. Each country in Africa has its lifestyle when it comes to culture and so forth. I simply love it!
About Mena in Arkansas, I think we went too early for the season...I don't know... Maybe we should have waited for Summer to do this trip...but anyway that was good still I just want to thank my friend for making me discovering this place. My friend is among the few people who have been so nice to me here in America. I really mean it...Humble person and really respectful no drama always trying to help whenever I need help. You need that kind of person because people can be...well you know...out there and it is always good to talk with good hearts, good souls.
If you want to have an idea of Mena's landscape you can click on my other link here: http://patacolorcarnet.weebly.com/carnet-de-voyage I have pictures that I posted.
The recent interesting experience was the one I did on Friday! I visited the Inner Space Cavern in a little city named Georgetown in Texas. Ok! It has nothing to do with Georgetown in Washington DC. It is way different lol!! I had so much fun! I share the pictures and some videos of the tour as well. I liked it a lot!
Garden of flowers at Fort Worth @ http://patacolorcarnet.weebly.com/carnet-de-voyage
I also went again to Fort Worth to take a time walking at the gardens. Fort Worth is at 2 hours from Dallas area if I remember exactly. I don't go there often. Fort Worth is a nice city with many museums and many gardens. I like flowers and I am in love with flowers really! They are so beautiful. You can talk to them they listen to you because they are so beautiful. My mum has a "green hand"(translated from a French expression) she likes to plant and everything that she plants always grows well. She takes good care of them and she talks to them they listen, they are happy and they grow well.
I recently bought some beautiful flowers for my bedroom's balcony. They make me smile every morning when I wake up. I say hi to them (Hi! Ladies how are you?) and you can feel that they reply back at you with their wonderful colorful smile!
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Ok! I guess I said all for the weekend getaway! Thank you for reading my post and to visit my Patacolor Carnet blog. Some of the posts are in French but you will like the pictures though.
I will have a post about how is it to live in America? My friends and some people have always asked me that question. Well, I will share my own experience and some advices to those who are interested. I will have a video or videos in French because they have often asked me that question. I will be genuinely honest and...yes! I can't write it in English because it takes time to translate and edit it. Sometimes I can have the wrong words but I will put some ideas in English for other readers as well. But I can just say I can write a whole book about that experience. The up and the down. I laughed, I cried I mean, I had everything happened to me. People can have a kind of idea which is definitely not true...People have to see and live it first.
What am I going to do after America? Hmmm let's see. I have plenty of interesting ideas and I hope to share them soon as I will be in the next step of my life. I hope to leave with my stuffed animals and also a real adopted puppy dog that I will name America! America as a memory of my life in the country (Smiling) I will take him with me everywhere. I know the breed that I will choose already and maybe I will take two dogs instead? One will be America and the other one will be named Texas after the State because I live here. well...let's see!
You don't share everything but what you share should help or inspire someone else. We are humans and life is...life. There are many surprises that can happen.
I also wanted to share with you another beautiful song in a Native American language that I found on www.youtube.com. I really love it! Few years ago I bought a CD album of Native American flutes. that album is wonderful and relaxing! I simply love it. Please Enjoy and admire the Beauty of Creation. To me God is Great!!
Un poeme pour les femmes seulement. Merci. Juste une inspiration que j'ai eu pour ce weekend
Prendre "Un Temps Pour Soi"
Poetiquement chez la femme.
C'est apprecier toutes les petites choses de la Vie!! Prendre Un Temps Pour Soi,
C'est savoir etre en mode relaxe et ne rien faire parfois.
C'est savoir se reveiller avec le sourire du soleil et un temps de meditation. Prendre Un Temps Pour Soi, poetiquement chez la femme
C'est se reveiller un peu tard en matinee avec une tasse de chocolat en main et contemplant silencieusement a travers la fenetre de votre appartement, la beaute de la ville.
(Picture:fawksteretworld.wordpress.com) Prendre Un Temps Pour Soi dans l'univers des femmes,
C'est savoir sortir en weekend et apprecier les douceurs de la Vie!
Une glace au parfum de menthe et aux pepites de chocolat pourquoi pas?
Prendre Un Temps Pour Soi, chez la femme
C'est savoir etre gourmande tout en prenant soin de sa sante.
Des fruits? Des legumes? Miam! Pourquoi pas?
On triche un peu mais on fait quand meme attention a ce qu'on mange.
Prendre Un Temps pour Soi, chez la femme,
C'est savoir se faire plaisir de temps a autres.
c'est apprecier un temps fun de shopping.
Prendre Un Temps Pour Soi poetiquement chez la femme,
c'est apprecier les couleurs de la vie! Prendre Un temps Pour Soi poetiquement chez la femme,
c'est apprecier la beaute des jardins et contempler la beaute des fleurs.
Cest aussi apprecier l'univers delicat qui nous entoure et en prendre soin.
C'est toujours bien de prendre un temps pour soi. Prendre Un Temps Pour Soi poetiquement chez la femme,
c'est savoir etre un peu paresseuse apres une longue journee. Se detendre les gambettes et se relaxer. Prendre Un Temps Pour Soi c'est savoir se reposer fermer les yeux et ecouter de la bonne musique tout en appreciant la scenteur d'une bougie parfumee. Prendre Un temps Pour Soi, poetiquement chez la femme,
c'est apprecier ces petits details. ok now! No stress!
It's a woman's world trust me!
Prendre Un Temps Pour Soi, chez la femme,
c'est savoir prendre du temps avec son petit animal de compagnie. Le "furry friend!!!" Oui il est toujours la pour nous! Sucre et agreable le petit compagnon!
(Boo's picture from Boo's Facebook page)
(My partner! MissCookie isn't she cute? #Funny picture)
Ma partenaire Melle Cookie n'est elle pas mignonne? Qu'en pensez vous?
Prendre Un Temps Pour Soi, c'est savoir passer du temps en famille. Oui, la famille avant tout!
Prendre Un Temps Pour Soi tendrement chez la femme,
c'est prendre le temps de pouponner ses petits cheris.
Un p'tit sourire ici! Un p'tit bisous par la! C'est cela le Bonheur!
(Un clin d'oeil a toutes les mamans!!)
(Mummy Love and Baby Love,) Picture Fashion Ghana Magazine
Prendre Un Temps Pour Soi amoureusement et romantiquement chez la femme,
C'est aussi savoir passer du temps en amoureux!
C'est prendre un temps avec la personne qu'on aime beaucoup.
C'est se tenir la main et apprecier les moment precieux.
C'est un calin et plein de bisous partout. Et vive l'Amour!!
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Prendre Un temps Pour Soi, dans l'univers de la femme,
C'est savoir prendre soin de soi. C'est savoir se faire jolie au feminin point com (une expression que j'aime bien).
C'est tout simplement savoir se faire belle a croquer au quotidien heu! (sourire)
Prendre Un Temps Pour Soi, poetiquement chez la femme,
c'est apprecier ses apres midi en weekend en lisant des magazines!
(Ma collection de magazines) Prendre Un Temps Pour Soi, chez la femme,
C'est marcher elegamment dans la ville ou tout simplement a la plage et apprecier l'air du temps! Vivre le Carpe Diem. C'est fermer les yeux et respirer l'air de la vie. c'est cela la joie de vivre!
C'est aussi savoir apprecier les parfums et les Saisons de cette derniere: Automne, Ete, Hiver et Printemps!
Prendre Un Temps Pour Soi, poetiquement chez la femme,
C'est savoir etre reconnaissante des bienfaits de la vie.
C'est prendre un temps de reconnaissance des bontes et les bienfaits de Dieu dans nos vies.
C'est aimer la vie sans regret. C'est savoir partager l'Amour sans rien attendre en retour!
C'est savoir pardonner et tourner la page pour inscrire de jolis mots sur une nouvelle page de la vie. Une nouvelle page de la vie ou s'envolent des papillons d'Espoir.
C'est savoir etre aussi creative et positive.
Voila ce que c'est que Prendre Un Temps Pour Soi selon moi.
Voila ce que c'est que de Prendre Un Temps Pour Soi poetiquement chez la femme selon moi.
Voila ce que c'est que Prendre Un Temps Pour Soi dans l'univers de la femme a mes yeux.
C'etait tout pour l'inspiration du weekend! Bonne fin de semaine! Bon weekend a vous!! Appreciez les petits moments de bonheur c'est cela la vie heu! (sourire)
Je vous fais des bisous et je vous dis a bientot!
Aussi, permettez moi de vous emporter dans les douceurs tropicales de chez moi, avec cette chanson de Nadege Mbadou et Mathys Mabaka deux artistes Gabonais dans "You Are So Fine"
(This is a really sad picture...Poor bear.) I would like to talk about two topics that I personally understand that it is important as much as we all do. I want to talk about Climate Change and endangered species.
Maybe I don't completely understand it because it is more complicated than I think and maybe because I am not a scientist to grasp the whole concept. But do we really need to be a scientist to notice how things around us are changing in a certain way? The elder Amazon man that I watched talking to a journalist on TV complained about seeing too many changes in the nature . Was he a scientist to realize that things are no longer the same that they used to be? Any person who worries about nature can understand a little bit of it...right?
"Earth Song" Michael Jackson. Please watch the video with this strong message
Recently I was watching that video many times....for some reasons... I don't know why. Some people would may be say look there are more important issues to talk about. Some issues like Human Rights, Child labor, Women's Rights etc. And I agree with them. That is true but Climate change is also real and the first victims are going to be the wildlife (I like animals) and people who live in natural environment. What I mean by natural environment, are people who live and depend on the nature. People such as the Amazon people, Pygmies, Aborigines, the Eskimos and many others. We might not understand it yet because we are still living in a kind of "comfort" but look if it affects their environment it will definitely come to us. (This is my opinion)
I believe that we humans are responsible for that climate change. I mean we have caused it in the sense that we did so many activities that caused what is happening now. For instance, look the pollution coming out of factories. We have altered the way the nature was working. When in the 90's Michael Jackson was singing Earth Song, I wonder if we understood his call for action. Maybe other artists did the same call too. I understood the message back then but I didn't realized the impact of these words until now. I only realized it later. Earth is crying Mother nature is crying can we hear it? I mostly like the part when he says "What have we done to the world? Look at what we've done." as if he was talking to human kind to observe the damages that we have caused to our planet.
It's only few years ago that I realized the fact that climate change was real. Now I worry more as much as you do. It was even worse when I saw a video of a polar bear on TV struggling to survive as the ice was melting around him. It really saddened me to be honest I almost cried. Like the man said on that TV documentary climate change it's almost like a death sentence to them (the polar bears). Who would like to live knowing that death is already there without any solution? President Obama also voiced his concern and also show his support for working on that issue. Global warming has completely destabilized the way animals are living. To me global warming or climate change might make some species disappear as well. Somebody told me that some species were now found in Iceland (when they are not supposed to be there) just because they are looking for food. Iceland has no choice than send them back to their normal environment.
I wish many presidents could do what President Obama is doing now (Ok! I am not talking politics here. I talk about the issue that concern every people no matter your race, your political views, your country and age) I want to share few videos now and maybe they will support the meaning of my post today. I also hope that some people who do not feel concerned about this topic would understand my point of view and might change their view on it. I just wish that people could educate more children on such issue as well.
Again, like I said earlier, I don't do politics at all but I wish many presidents could do what he is doing. Talking during summits it is one thing but going on the ground and observing the real threat is another. To me if we people have respected enough our nature we would not see all this change yes we caused it and it is my opinion.
The next video that I want to share is Leonardo DiCaprio's call for action on climate change during his Oscars acceptance speech. Once again I was moved I was touched by this speech. We all know his implication for that cause right? He is really working on it. And yes he is one of my favorite actors (wink) smile. Please listen carefully to what he said. It is so important
When I thought about that phenomena few months ago my concern was like maybe the children to our grand children might not be able to see such species like polar bears because of that global warming. I mean maybe they would just know them in the books. Can you imagine that?
It's like when the dinosaurs (Sorry, I do not believe in the theory of dinosaurs...this is my personal opinion but since it is recorded by scientists then I will take it as an example and thanks God they do not exist anymore lol! ) according to some theories dinosaurs extinction happened because of a type of climate change (hmmm...Am I right?) like it was too cold for them they could not resist that climate so they died and they disappeared. Again, I do not believe in the story of dinosaurs but I take it as an example to explain my thoughts that if polar bears (sorry for the same example I like polar bears they are so cute I don't want their extinction) if it is too warm for polar bears they will disappear as well. What a tragedy!
This is another video that I watched and I found interesting to share it with you but please don't get too sad....Maybe we can still do something about it. Thanks to all these brave people out there who are doing their best to save our wildlife.
Yes this is a serious threat even for us. When animals are struggling to live I am not sure that in time it could be better for us either. Beside, they need us as much as we need them. Their presence on earth is so important and that is why I want to talk now about endangered species. I am not going to be long but what I want to say especially to African presidents is to make a law that will stop illegal hunt and people who come from somewhere in the world to hunt our animals for fun. I am serious about it because we are losing our lions in the continent and I am so fed up to read and see on the news people who come just to kill for fun and others for greed. If we are not careful our lions will disappear, panthers will disappear, elephants will disappear...
To us Africans, lion is a strong symbol. It is the symbol of royalty and strength which represent what the continent was. Centuries before we had many kingdoms and empires to those who do not know that part of the History. We had our lives and we didn't kill the wildlife the way people are doing now. And it also irritates me to see that strong symbol encaged at the zoo I wish they could be in the proper environment. I only encourage parks where they can live free and protected. Seeing a lion in a zoo breaks my heart. People who know me will tell you that I just don't like zoos. Actually I don't go there anymore because I believe that animals enjoy their freedom as much as we humans, like ours. So why encaging them? They don't deserve it (This is my thoughts it does not have to be the same for everyone) but if I could, I would shut down all those zoos and take the animals back to their normal environment. I can't picture myself sitting and eating all day long in a same cage this is like a prison and that's how I see zoos to animals.
Not only are they encaged you will you see people coming to throw at them candies laughing playing with them which is not bad but are they supposed to be there? When you know how royal is the lion when you understand the symbol it represents to some people you would not encage it at all. The lion is more than that it is continental culture to us. People are really impressed or compassionate when they watch the Lion King in Disney cartoons but why don't they feel the same way when they see the same lion in real life at the zoos? How many times I went to the zoos? Maybe three times in my entire life and I never went back there. I have one picture of a miniature park of wild animals that I visited many years ago. I only went to zoos when we had an excursion and when friends invited me to go there but after that...no!
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If I will bring my children to zoos? No! Why? because as African I have respect for these animals. They all have a meaning to us. Two, I won't take them there because it gives a message to them that it is ok to encage animals which I don't want. I want them to understand that animals are supposed to live free. If they will really want to visit a zoo for their personal experience, they will go with someone else but not me.
Back in the days people didn't kill animals this way: Today greedy hunters come and kill even pregnant gorillas with babies. Is it normal? Some even kill for fun or for money! My grand father and many of that generation didn't need to go to school to learn that you don't kill animals any time and any how. For instance: You don't kill a pregnant female, you don't kill a baby animal. You should also wait for the reproduction cycle to finish normally. There is a time to hunt and there is a time to not doing it! It is commonsense! Today they go after animals and cut the horn of a rhinoceros leaving him half alive walking around until he dies what a painful death! Ok! now let's picture the same scene but in a different way: You are the innocent animal running for your life and right behind you a crazy hunter is chasing you for fun or greed what would be your reaction?
They do the same thing for elephants because they kill as many as possible to make money out of it. What kind of people can do such things? You don't hunt to have fun. If you want to hunt animals it's maybe because you need food maybe you want to do little artistic things but no exaggeration! Hello! With the issue of climate change threating the wildlife we add the issue of the hunters who are killing for fun. Most of them proudly and gladly take pictures with the dead animals. Who can do that??? You have a weapon, the innocent animals is trying so hard to escape and survive in vain
You can see them everywhere on internet or articles, with the innocent animals on their hands or sometimes sitting next to a dead lion with weapon on their hands smiling as if they achieved something great for humanity. I just wonder what message do they send to children? And of course the people who will suffer from this lost will not be them but the local population as usual. Good job! I hope you thought about it before running after the innocent animal. No wonder why these poor beings are more aggressive than they used to be when they smell humans at distance because of that kind of hunters.
I sometimes wish that by the time they finish taking their pictures where they proudly pose, a national security guard grabs them by the arms with the animals and send them to jail where they belong after such an evil act.There are people out there who are trying so hard to protect the wildlife but the only thing that some think about doing is to make that work even more difficult. When you kill one plus one that makes two. Then one and another one plus another and the list goes on. It would be simple to not doing it. If somebody wants to hunt he/she has to have a really strong reason to do it. Will you leave these poor animals alone? For crying out loud! Leave them in peace they do not attack us so they do not deserve this treatment!
Because if we do not stop this madness in the years to come we will loose most of these species. And we will only know them in the books. It is time to protect our nature. I am thinking about working with people who are saving the wildlife. If you can't go on the field, you can sometimes send money to organizations that are doing a great job to protect them. I hope we will teach to our children the respect of mother nature and to understand how important we need to save our wildlife.
People should understand the importance of Creation.
(Sorry for the video quality. At that time I was learning how to make it. I was trying to send a message)
My last message tonight is: Think twice before going to war think about the damages (human lives especially) that it can cause. When hunting think about the damages it can cause. When use all this system and factories let's think about the damages it can cause to our natural environment. Thank you for reading
Hi! Everyone.
Just want to share new things in my blog. I recently went to Oklahoma a State next to Texas for a visit to the Chickasaw Cultural Center. That center is in a city named Sulphur so if you happened to go to this area try to go there and discover interesting facts and the history of this people. Who are the Chickasaw? They are a Native American tribe (To those who need more explanation they are Indian Americans tribe). Some of you know the story of "The Trail of Tears" that happened many years ago when they were forced to leave their ancestors' land to go to Oklahoma. (A very sad part of the History as well) I understand what it means because coming from a culture where the land and respect of nature and ancestors is important it can be a humiliating and traumatizing experience.
Why did I go to that center? When I was young back in the days and back in my country the only pictures and movies that were shown to us were cowboys movies I would say a very "strange" depiction of them. For some reasons I grew up with that idea because that was all we could see. However, as I became a little bit older I started to reject this depiction because knowing how African people were also portrayed in books, I decided to not believe it anymore and I simply thought that if they didn't understand our culture I wonder how could they understand Native Americans' culture and civilization as well? I started to be curious and learn about Native Americans by reading few books.
When I came to the US, I decided to further my knowledge. As a result, I decided to take an extra special class of Native Americans' History in order to learn. I wanted to break my ignorance and remove that erroneous depiction of them. I have learned a lot and my understanding was now open. I learned that they were brave with many warriors like we had in Africa. I have also learned that there were many tribes such as the Chickasaw, the Cherokees, the Utes who were living in Utah area, the Seminoles I think they were in Florida area (Somebody can correct me if I am wrong) the Navajo, the Choctaw, the Mohicans and many others. I was even surprised to learn an Indian tribe named the "Gros Ventre" which is a French word that is literally translated as "The Big Stomach." I then wondered why did the French gave them that name? ( I might do some research on Google to understand it). Then, I was thinking that if the French happened to named them they might have taught them their language as well. As a result, I thought that maybe some Native Americans were speaking French at least understanding it.
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After watching the movie The Revenant with Leonardo DiCaprio (One of my favorite actors) I had a little bit of answers. If you carefully watched the movie you remember that one of the French guy said to his superior while talking about Native Americans that the Indian chief could understand French. I think he even said a sentence in French if I remember. And in the movie, they were communicating in different languages kind of but they could still understand each other. To me it was like an answer in the sense that now I knew that they kind of spoke and understood some French. Anyway to curt short. My visit was on purpose to learn History one of my favorite subjects at school even though at some point after reading many books I realized that History has never been written with all the exact facts/events. History was not written in favor of some people...But to me it's about time that Africa starts to write her own History book and teach our own History to students at school. These books should be now included in our Education program. We had enough learned History of Europe and America. It is time for us to know well our own History.
At the library of the cultural center
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Back in the days, learning our History requires to go to libraries on your own and have the thirst or desire to learn. We were taught a little bit about us at school (That is very sad). We didn't have easy access to internet in that time. We didn't have google, youtube, I phone etc. The only option for those who were curious to learn was to read and read and read books as many as possible. I really want to thank my father who taught me the importance to read and to learn. Actually my first Science and History books were offered by my dad. For instance, I would be reading the map of the world to see countries and know most of the capital cities. Maybe that's why I have a good knowledge of the African continent as well (I mean countries, capital cities, a little bit of culture,History and geography) It sometimes disappoints me to see some of my African fellows who have no clue of their own continent. I met many of them here. They can't even tell you in what part of the continent a country or another country is situated. Maybe they don't have to but look! if some people can do that why shouldn't they do the same? Simple examples: somebody asks me where Kenya is, without any doubt I would say East Africa. Where is Nigeria or Ghana? In West Africa without any doubt. Where is Algeria or Tunisia? in North Africa without any doubt. Where is Congo? In Central Africa without any doubt.
A warrior
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As I learned a little of our History I felt in some ways related to Native Americans' History in the sense that we also lost our lifestyle. Our culture has been modified, our tradition as well. We knew the importance of using plants and how to welcome people. I like nature a lot because I grew up learning about it and I respect people who respect nature. Native Americans also have strong respect for it. We both lost our real independence. We were colonized without knowing why and the damages have never been paid. About Africa, we have lost many people from the continent. Some of them were thrown in the ocean alive or dead who cared since they suddenly became less than human for some people. They were thrown in the water because they were trying to fight for freedom, because it was fun to throw them to feed the sharks as an entertainment or simply because they could not stand to travel in a ship.
They were taken to some unknown lands away from families. We had to fight for our dignity and pride and it sometimes surprises me when people have the guts today to ask me why Africa is behind compared to other continents. Without being rude or mean my answer is simple: " while during centuries you were taking our people to build your countries, the old generation and children who were left on their own, had to suffer another oppression which was colonization. No wonder why the knowledge that was passed on was gone already with the strongest group since we had oral tradition. Our blood worked for you...Now you understand?" Yes, it was such a Huge and massive lost even though people do not care or do not admit it but it's a true fact. Africa has lost a lot!! Human resources is the most important wealth of a continent and country. And yet we still suffer this lost today ( I can write an entire blog about it but I won't.) It is still a traumatic experience to go to places were our ancestors were caught before taking the ships. Our people have never been treated fairly. We were taught to forgive and that's what we ALWAYS did but when are we going to be compensated for all the wrong deeds? Well...it is still a question hanging there. However, compensated or not, I still believe that someday things will change. We are going to change things for the best in our continent.
My Native American necklace and bracelet
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Back to the main subject of this post, I had such a great experience at the cultural center in Oklahoma and I recommend people to go there if they want to learn more. I put all the pictures at: http://patacolorcarnet.weebly.com/carnet-de-voyage
I saw people playing flute and drums. I met a lady who was Chickasaw and she is a genealogist.
Let me share some moments with you. (unfortunately I cannot post all of them because there are some visitors who accidentally were filmed in my videos.)
In the first one, I learned a little artistic activity
Then, a little bit of archeology
I like water. To me, water symbolizes harmony, purity, truth and peace.
Would you like to listen to this beautiful song in Native American language? I love it! Few years ago I bought a complete album of Native American flute (music) and I love it! Sacred Spirit Yeha Noha
That was all about my visit. I hope you like it. Since I am about to conclude this post I was thinking if you have ever had trouble sleeping at night like I did some years ago? I was going through a lot...I could not sleep at night at all until the sunrise. That was such a difficult experience to live. My eyes were looking like the main character of the book of the French author Guy de Maupassant "The Horla" To those who have read the book you understand what I mean by that. That experience made me write this post. You can find it in my other page, I wrote something interesting: I shared few tips for good night sleep at: http://patacolorcarnet.weebly.com/carnet-de-lifestyle
If you are interested to read it you can click on that link.
Also, my friend Sandrine has renewed her website. She now makes us discover more interesting things such as testimonies and experiences of women entrepreneur. How they started from almost nothing to build a business. She also shares social activities of her association in her city of Grenoble in France. What they have done so far for some people. she has ideas that she wrote for home decoration and DYI ideas. She shares news on jobs offer etc. And, she also asked me to write a little article about African fashion which I gladly did (The website is in French) This is the link of my article but you can read other articles as well: http://asseg38.123siteweb.fr/412916752?b=A4D09786BEF782EE7F9249B5B4BBD84ECDE323D5
To those who speak French it would be interesting for you to go to her website you will learn a lot! She is such a gifted and nice person. I first met Sandrine online. We became friends through another person and our friendship matched so fast because we have the same passion. Since then we have been communicating and I like her a lot. She is a sweet lady! (wink)
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Thank you for passing by!
For the French speakers this is a poem of an African well known author named Francis Bebey that I read in my list of "Poems to Our Dear Africa" in my post and my youtube channel. That poem reminds us how important it is to like and respect our culture. It is a story of an African griot (or storyteller/ genealogist teller) who are still working to keep our oral tradition.
Francis Bebey "Qui Es Tu? " (Who Are You?)
The author was apparently asking that question to the Genealogist teller (griot) and he in turn replied to him with all his experiences and passion for what he is doing. What was done and still is going to be done generation after generation telling genealogy to people through songs and using the Kora that African traditional instrument.
Thank you!
