Soccer

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Soccer is the most popular activity among the kids here. No wonder why: they have no electricity (and money) for the "modern" games and computers - and they are too young for having sex. (Hmm... Maybe it was a simplified conclusion from me - but usually the simpler solutions are the best ones.)

So this Saturday we kept a shorter English class and played soccer till lunch. Actually only the kids played until lunch, I had to quit after 10 minutes. Since everybody played barefoot, I did too, but the hot sand burnt 4 HUGE vesicle on my feet so I had to give up (my local colleagues laughed at me, that I still had 'children feet'). But at least I could take some nice pictures about the kids:

Fighting


Out!!!

I got it!!!

Hand!!!

Defense

The Purpose of Life

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What if the purpose of life is not something what is given and we need to find, but it's something we can and need to decide about?!

Frequencies

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I had to do a little internet research for my project and I accidentally found this article. I couldn't stand not to post it:

Frequency is a measurable rate of electrical energy that is constant between any two points. Every living thing has an electrical frequency. Robert O. Becker, M.D., documents the electrical frequency of the human body in his book, The Body Electric. A "frequency generator" was developed in the early 1020's by Royal Raymond Rife, M. D. He found that by using certain frequencies, he could destroy a cancer cell or virus. He found that these frequencies could prevent the development of disease, and others would destroy disease.

Bruce Tainio of Tainio Technology in Cheney, Washington, developed new equipment to measure the bio-frequency of humans and foods. He used this bio-frequency monitor to determine the relationship between frequency and disease. Measuring in megahertz, it was found that processed / canned food had a zero MHz frequency; fresh produce measure up to 15 MHz; dry herbs from 12-22 MHz; and fresh herbs from 2-27 MHz. Essential oils started at 52 MHz and went as high as 320 MHz, which is the frequency of rose oil.

Measurements on the human body found that a healthy person has a frequency around 62-68 MHz. When a person’s frequency dips to 58 MHZ, cold symptoms can manifest. Flu symptoms start at 57 MHz, Candida at 55 MHz, and Epstein Barr syndrome at 52 MHz. Cancer can begin when the body falls below 42 MHz. The process of dying begins at 25 MHz and goes to zero at death.

Clinical research shows essential oils, having the highest frequency of any natural substance known to man, can create an environment in which microbes, disease, bacteria, virus, fungus, etc., cannot live. Truly, the chemistry and frequency of essential oils have the ability to help man maintain an optimal health frequency.

It is wonderful to discover that essential oil frequencies are several times greater than frequencies of herbs and foods. For years, research has been conducted on the use of electrical energy to reverse disease. Scientists in the field of natural healing have believed there has to be a more natural way to increase the body's electrical frequency. This led to the research and subsequent discovery of electrical frequencies in essential oils. Patients felt better emotionally when oils were diffused in their rooms. It seemed that, within seconds, these patients were more calm and less anxious with little exposure and inhalation. Certain oils acted within 1-3 minutes; others acted within seconds. It is fascinating to think that an oil applied to the bottom of the feet could travel to the head and take effect within one minute. The more results that have been seen, the more research has been initiated.

Unhealthy Substances Caused Frequency Changes. In one test, the frequency of two individuals - the first a 26 year old male and the second a 24 year old male - was measured at 66 MHz each. The first individual held a cup of coffee (without drinking any), and his frequency dropped to 58 MHz in 3 seconds (drinking it lowers the body frequency with an additional 6 MHz). However, no essential oils were used during the recovery time, and it took 3 days for his frequency to return to its initial 66 MHz.

Other surprising aspect of this study was found by measuring of the influence which thoughts have on the body's electrical frequency. Negative thoughts lowered the measured frequency by 12 MHz and positive thoughts raised the measured frequency by 10 MHz. It was also found that prayer and meditation increased the measured frequency levels by 15 MHz.

Source:
http://www.younglivingessentialoils4u.com/biofrequencyanddisease

Cris’s Fairy Tale

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There is a Brazilian DI girl here, Cris – with whom we teach others: I help her to learn English, she helps me out in my Portuguese. One afternoon when I came back from work, she asked me a favor. She asked me to translate one of her homeworks.

Indeed, it wasn't a homework from her homework; she made it up: it was a fairy tale written for me.

It took me some time & effort to crack her English, but it was worth when I understood her message:

We can easily remember things which are emotionally charged, which can be pictured, which are beautiful. Things what are abstract, what are related to studying or (office) working will hardly become our memories (and part of us). That’s why we need to often stop, to look around what surrounds us, to enjoy the beautiful things in our life and to spend time with the people we like – preferably as an outdoor activity...

FEELING is more important, than KNOWING.

A New Earth

In Denmark, I found a book from Anthony Robbins: Awakening the Giant Within (Ébreszd Fel a Benned Szunnyadó Óriást), and an audiobook Get the Edge. I already can see that reading and listening them has had (and will have) a great effect on my life.

A few days ago I got another very interesting book from my Dutch friend, Rob:

Eckhart Tolle – A New Earth (Új Föld)

And here are "some" quotes from this book:

My toy later becomes my car, my house, my clothes, and so on. I try to find myself in things but never quite make it and end up losing myself in them. That is the fate of the ego.

The ego satisfaction is short-­lived and so you keep looking for more, keep buying, keep consuming.

The ego tends to equate having with B eing: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.

The ego’s sense of self­worth is in most cases bo und up with the worth you have in the eyes of others. You need others to give you a sense of self, and if you live in a culture that to a large extent equates self­worth with how much and what you have, if you cannot look through this collective delusion, you will be condemned to chasing after things for the rest of your life in the vain hope of finding your worth and completion of your sense of self there.

Most egos have conflicting wants. They want different things at different times or may not even know what they want except that they don't want what is: the present moment. Unease, restlessness, boredom, anxiety, dissatisfaction , are the result of unfulfilled wanting. Wanting is structural, so no amount of content can provide lasting fulfillment as long as that mental structure remains in place.

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, medical treatment is the third­leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer in the United States. Homeopathy and Chinese medicine are two examples of possible alternative approaches to disease that do not treat the illness as an enemy and therefore do not create new diseases.

Whatever behavior the ego manifests, the hidden motivating force is always the same: the need to stand out, be special, be in control; the need for power, for attention, for more. And, of course, the need to feel a sense of separation, that is to say, the need for opposition, enemies.

The underlying emotion that governs all the activity of the ego is fear. The fear of being nobody, the fear of nonexistence, the fear of death. All its activities are ultimately designed to eliminate this fear, but the most the ego can ever do is to cover it up temporarily with an intimate relationship, a new possession, or winning at this or that. Illusion will never satisfy you. Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.

And many more...

While the Antony Robbins book was a kind of guide how to live our lives, this Eckhart Tolle book can be a path to get to know my soul. But this book is very quintessential, I don’t read more than an article (2-3 pages) per day: I need to give time to myself to process what I’ve read.

Thx again, Rob, for recommending this book!

World-famous Kecskés Peti

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We decided to prepare common dinners every weekend for the Dis – and each weekend other DIs (with different nationality) should prepare one of their national foods. We started this weekend – with Hungary. Reka and me were the chef and we decided to prepare tomato-cabbage (paradicsomos káposztát). Of course we prepared this dish for the first time – yes, just like in Dronten: why not to try prepare a new food, when I need to cook for 14 people?! :)

The best part of the cooking was when I realized (just a few minutes before finishing cooking), that the dish should be eaten from deep plates with spoon – and we have only 2-3 deep plates and spoons, so we will need to serve it on flat plates and we will eat it with forks...

Congrats Attila for choosing the right dish! ;)

Anyway, we managed to serve it – and everybody liked it very much! ;)

And for a Hungarian evening we needed Hungarian music too. Besides Kowalsky, Republic and the other Hungarian pop music Reka and I had here, I had to show "Kecskés Peti" too:

The Best Hungarian Wedding Singer :)

Of course everybody liked him, even if they didn’t understand the lyrics. So Peti, from now you can say, that your music is played in Africa too and heard by South American (Brazilian) people too!!! ;)

It was a very nice evening – but still, it wasn’t the same as it had been to Dronten. No, it’s not because I’m with different people now. I think the difference came much more from the recipes. In Dronten, all the recipes started like this:

„Open a bottle of wine. Or two...”

(While unfortunately here, during this volunteer program, the alcohol consumption is forbidden...)

Touching

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The garden of Centro Esperanca Beluluane is full with Aloe Vera. As most of us know, Aloe Vera is very good to heal skin problems. Unfortunately not everybody knows – eg the relatives of some of the orphans. And this is the reason why we cannot use these Aloe Vera for treating the skins of these kids (many of them have some burns or different kind of skin problems): if they get any other infections or it would get worse for any other different reason, we can be blamed for it, and we wouldn’t be able to explain their relatives, that not the Aloe Vera caused the problem.

So we have lots of Aloe Veras, we have some kids who would need them, these kids play around the Aloe Vera every Saturday – but they can’t enjoy its healing power…

An Annoying Challenge :)

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This post is only for computer geeks:

I installed a new Windows XP on another DI’s laptop. It turned out that she had the following problem with her keyboard & touchpad:

When she shuts down her laptop (Start Menu / Turn Off Computer / Shut Down) then the keyboard doesn’t work at all, and the touchpad doesn’t work properly either when she restarts it. However a connected mouse works properly.

BUT! If we shut the laptop down in the following "not to nice way":

We take the battery out and unplug it, then, in the next restart both the touchpad & keyboard work properly!!!

Some additional info:
- it was like this before and after I reinstalled the Windows XP
- I have installed the latest touchpad driver too
- It’s an ACER Travelmate 4021 WLMi laptop

Since there is way to make both the keyboard & touchpad properly, I think it’s not a hardware problem. So a solution should exist for this problem – and it annoys me that I cannot find it. If you have any idea, please let me know! Thx! ;)

Snake

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Once when Domingos, Rapson and me walked in the community, Domingos just jumped a big one on the path. It turned out he saw a chameleon - and he was afraid of it. I was amazed about his fear, since the chameleon is not harmful at all – and he couldn’t explain either why. We continued our way – and our conversation too about the "local animals":

Me: - Are there snakes around, too?
D: - Yes.
Me: - Really?! But have you seen here?
D: - Yes!
Me: - Are you afraid of the snakes too?
D: - No. Only of the Chameleon.
Me: - So what do you do if you see a snake? Do you run away?
D: - No. I kill it and eat it.

Well, after seeing him jumping away from a chameleon, this wasn’t the answer I expected from him.

Today, he proved he was really not afraid of the snakes. But he didn’t kill and eat it – he let it go a little bit further away from our center.

Should we eat it?

The biggest amplifier

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It seems it’s only an illusion that our (outer) world determines our feelings, in reality, the world only reflects and amplifies them: when we are happy, we see so many good things happening around us. When we have a bad mood, we fell the whole world is against us. When we are in love – we see love everywhere...

So if the outer world only reflects and amplifies our feelings then where do our feelings origin from? Is it a reaction to an event or, rather, is it our own decision how to feel?

The Joy of Receiving?

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The kids got some donation from Europe. This money was spent on some clothes, toys, pencils and candies what we gave to them. These were nice stuffs – but I didn’t like how we gave these presents to the kids: 4 of us were asked to take pictures, we had to take pictures of them one by one and in group with and without the presents – and we expected them to smile at all the cameras. This is not the way I would like to receive any gifts.

Altogether we took more than 500 pictures – but of course at least 90% of them seemed so artifical. When I checked our pictures, I couldn't find a single good one about the "ceremony" - so I had to choose "a not too good one":

"This is what we got..."

And it wasn’t the kids' fault. They actually love the camera! They just don’t like to be an object of an exposition. (Who likes to be anyway). When they can move freely, it’s so easy to make good pictures of them:

Acrobats

Karate Kids

Superman

Superstar

And of course Domingos and Rapson also like the camera!!! ;)

Daredevils of Centro Esperanca Beluluane

Personal Blockades

We are eager to refresh our ordinary lives, to have some new experiences, but how much do we let to take in these new experiences? Do we truly let ourselves to live through these new things, or we just try to interpret it through our old mindset. If we can’t be open enough to welcome these new experiences – or any changes in our life – how can we build them into our life?

Toastmasters International

I've found the Toastmaster website a few months before, in Denmark. I got very interested in it - but unfortunately I didn't have a chance to become a member in Denmark. So what is this about?

Well, it's not about making toasters!

From a humble beginning in 1924 at the YMCA in Santa Ana, California, Toastmasters International has grown to become a world leader in helping people become more competent and comfortable in front of an audience. The nonprofit organization now has nearly 235,000 members in 11,700 clubs in 92countries, offering a proven – and enjoyable! – way to practice and hone communication and leadership skills.

http://www.toastmasters.org/

The good thing about the Toastmaster, that it usually exists in every country and if it's not near to you, you still can start a club at your town. In Denmark, there was only 1 Toastmaster Club in Copenhagen - 300km away from Juelsminde where I lived. But I was happy to see, that there is one in Mozambique and it's in Maputo. I expected to have this Club placed in the downtown - but being very lucky again, it's 20km away from the capital, in MOZAL, in the industrial park just next to the Beluluane HOPE Center where I work (only 15 minutes walking distance).

So today I joined The Toastmasters Maputo Club. The Club meeting was very nice and interesting, and I received a nice welcome there. The people were very-very nice there - I even got a lift home from one of the members (causing 1 hour detour for him).

If you got interested in it, you check out if you already have a Toastmasters Club near to you:

http://www.toastmasters.org/find/

It's really worth to visit a club meeting! ;)

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Changes

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Instead of wanting quick and big changes, I should try to achieve small but consistent changes. The first one would be probably only temporary, while the latter one has the chance to last for a long period. I have to learn to make my habits working for me and not against me...