My friend Nikki is looking for an Au-pair. I tought Au-paring was a thing of the past, back when we all foreigners came to the UK to study english, but NO! It is still very much going on!
Basically you become part of a family and you look after the kids while the parents are at work. Accomodation and food is all catered for and you get some pocket money to spend on your free time!
Sooo.. if you can think or know of someone interested in spending the summer, 9 months or a whole year in Horsham, very near London, please drop me a line
dtorra@yahoo.com or a comment in here and I´ll forward you the details.
Mi amiga Nikki está buscando un Au-pair. Yo pensé que esto ya se había pasado de moda, que era cosa de aquellos tiempos cuando éramos jóvenes y veniamos a Inglaterra a aprender Inglés, pero NO, todavía sigue! Pues si sabéis o conocéis a alguien que quiera pasar el verano, nueve meses o un año entero viviendo en Horsham, al lado de Londres, formando parte de una familia, decídmelo por email dtorra@yahoo.com y os pongo en contacto! Es una buena oportunidad para aprender el Inglés. No hay que pagar ni alquileres ni comida y de paso te ganas un mini-sueldo para tus gastos en tus ratos libres. Ideal!
Today I met CALVIN, he lives in the UK but he is from Somalia. so, my question is, what do we know about Somalia?
Somalia is located in the Horn of Africa with the Gulf of Aden to the north and the Indian Ocean to the east. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, and Kenya to the southwest. The capital is Mogadishu. It gained independence back in the sixties from British and Italian colonizers, but it has never been at peace. Somali is the national language with Arabic widely spoken due ties with the Arab World and english, italian also, but less and less. 2008 estimates population at 10 million. The southern half of the country, with the bulk of the population, as of November 2007, is unstable, following the 2006 Civil War between the Transitional Government and the Islamic Courts Union.
Conflict broke out between the
Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (or "ARPCT") and a militia loyal to the I.C.U., seeking to institute
Sharia law in Somalia. Social law changes, such as the forbidding of chewing
khat, (khat contains an amphetamine-like stimulant which causes excitement and euphoria) and even the prohibition against watching movies and football in public, were part of moves by the ICU to change behaviours and impose strict social morals.
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on a happier note, JULIAN is soon boarding the plane to come to London!!!
JULIAN... a bottle of Jack Daniel´s will be nice.... thank you!
