picture time..this better work

Heya
How are you? I'm doing very well, I must say. Was gona put something up on Friday but was too tired & was cooking some good chicken wings and potato...
Friday put a smile on my face after a week of ups and downs, but hey I guess it's all good, gotta have those times right?
What don't kill me, makes me stronger etc blah blah blah
First shout out goes to Walmart

For making me when I found *plantain* unfried of course
But it just made me crave on of those cooked meals that I had at home & Uni *good times*

So yes, that put a huge smile on my face

Then yesterday I finally broke a sweat at a ''club''..it's called good times and I think I will be a regular there.. :-)

So finally a blog without moaning! cross your fingers for me yall x

this shhhhh is BANANA'S

Hi y'all
I have spoken to some of you & you have said you don't mind if my blog is me moaning or complaining about my current environment, fair enough...but if you do want to complain then please DO!
1) why is it raining all of a sudden? It's such a remainder of home, but home I didn't mind if rained that's what you expect from the UK right? So I don't know what this Southern weather is playing at to tell the truth..
2) I NEED A STUDENT UNION or a Union night with good people and music to keep me sane! It's insane how these people are able to function but I guess if you haven't known anything 'better' you're not really missing out on anything. Yes there are clubs but I'm tired of the rubbish nights out that can go two ways...The Vista is an area made up of old warehouses that have been remade into clubs. 1) they are filled with old horny men & soldiers from Fort Jackson & ''wake music''
2)Five Points is 21+ and is made up of mainly pubs which are filled with underage horny drunkards & barley audible music...you see my problem..if not look at my facebook pictures, even and especially Union nights I have sweat dripping from my hair & neck, have a big grin on my face, or my mouth is wide open from laughing or singing..sometimes both...that is what you call a good time! Three nights in a row I have gone out & returned home with hair and makeup in tact..this shhhhhhh is BANANA'S!
3) Then there is Club Levels, haven't been there yet but it does not have a good rep. It's on the ''ghetto' side of town, basically most Afro Americans live there..kmt! Why does it make it ghetto because they live there, stereotypes...*try not to rant and rave Isha*..anyway it's the ghetto spot that most people are trying to keep me away from, simply because I am British I will find it abit too unclean? Ok?!?!? I want someone to dance with a shout "From the window, to the wall...to sweat drops down...etc" etc...see people nearly make Love In the Club...! But it's not safe! :(
I wish I was a person who could stay in and watch films and go to sleep a happy person but I can't!
Right so many of you are probably thinking go somewhere woman and see places! There is not much to see in Columbia, I haven't or really anyone to drive me anywhere & MONEY is not in abundance at the mo! It should be easy to find someone with a car right? Wrong they have cars, but many Americans have not been socialised into thinking ''ok this foreigner must be bored out of their skull let me show them around''. Many of them here seem fascinated that you are an exchange student but that's s far as it goes...Sorry maybe I am being moany, but hey all my karma should be coming back to me right now, for being eager with people I meet...I don't know call me crazy...
Yes I hear you saying ''give it time, things will change, it' just the beginning, when they find out how much fun you are things will change'' I hear you I hear you, but try and put yourself in my position..ok take yourself out of it, it's saddening right!

But hey, I'm going to Charleston next weekend for a historical day trip, which will probably have me foaming at the mouth at about how inhumane the Southerners are, but hey at least I won't be on campus, then three days after that will be Fall Break...hopefully going to Jacksonville Florida...so maybe this is just a bad week..or maybe not
Enjoy fresher's week people & let me know how second year treats you.Take lots of pictures to make me jealous & miss you even more, it's ok.... I will live...suicide is frowned upon in the Southern states, don't want to upset anyone ;)

AFM

the people want...

some of you ask me what are the people like out here? & my simple answer is so far, they conform to an extent to the worst stereotypes that we generally associate with the American college population...very clique orientated, if I am allowed to the say.

The funniest thing for me out here, is the hostility that I have come across from the Afro American female population & the majority's attempt to say a couple of words here or there to me, but not know how to interact with me..come on people I am the same as you, I just have an ''accent'' and I'm here for a year. Apart from that I probably find the same things acceptable as you do and find things wrong just as you do.

The one thing that I was ignorant to was the divisions that exists amongst the various characters that I have in one particular class which is my AFRO PSYCHOLOGY class. Only at a group meeting did it become apparent to me, that obvious not all girls get along, lol doh! so that may have been to my detriment ?! (sorry I cant change the font size to the original size lol :P, Lego or G3 help me out here :P)but yes, maybe I should have 'begged' it in my first days here...*don't roll your eyes at me those who are at Warwick, it's not the same here*...but yeh generally, its going alright. trying not to be too picky and internally critical of some of my peers, but I have been used to a certain way...not sayin that everyone should want to flock around the girl from London, but people around here..American to Americans are not accomadating of others than those who are in the friendship group and that means not even trying to make an effort with those who they meet in the classes..that in my eyes is the saddest thing.....that said and done i have met some really nice people out here!

Hey y'all

Just wanted to let you know that you can now comment on my blog, even if you are not a blog member
I have heard that it was quite annoying for those who want to read & comment but not commit to having a blog yourself lol...

A post will soon be coming...I'm being lazy & don't think you would be interested in what I have to say at the moment...
Something exciting needs to happen :)

x
btw none of you realised I have been signing my posts wrong
its not AMF but AFM think about it

AFM

Political agitated

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/sep/15/lehmanbrothers.creditcrunch

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/15/barackobama.race

London Fashion week...size zero models (size 4) are allowed back on the runway...other Fashion capitals did not buy into it & London can not afford to miss out! :) "Woman who are naturally size 'zero' feel just as victimised as women who are size 20 plus" well said.....

Haven't written in awhile, been all over the place & trying not to write negative pieces :P something shall come very soon, it may be a week ot two but it will come, if not facebook or mail me

Much love
the sunkissed AMF

Y'all asked...

how I am doing with the Elections coming up & being in a university that has a significant number of students from African descent in, and how am I coping in class at the moment.
Some of you may have read me saying, that the Afro Americans seem ''confused'' or that I am proud of being a British Sierra Leonean, this is because of issues that are on a daily basis presented to the Afro American students, particularly now in the advent of one of the biggest elections, the United States of America and the world in some respects has seen.
Increasingly in classes I see the looks upon the faces of my peers when confronted with the issue of their identity, not only as Americans but as people of African descent.
Yesterday there was a society fair and it seemed that there were various types of ''black'' students that walked the campus. Mainly what I realised was that regardless of their 'difference', they all walked in isolation and social groups reflected racial groupings, which I haven't been used to for a while. The funniest thing was the competition to define oneself as 'different' from their counterpart. This made me thing, that there were more than one forces at work here; they didnot want to identify with the whole Afro American student body but all of them avoided the rest of the student body altogether, it seemed.

In my Psychology and Afro American class, my lecture highlighted a theory that Afrocentric psychologist have developed, concerning why some members of the Afro American population are mentally ill. The psychologists point to the fact, an aspect of confusion has occured within the individual as they have tried to conform to two or more norms that society expects them to adhere to. Is this true? I don't know...and will keep you informed on that, as in two weeks or so I would have to do a piece on why I think ''all the black kids sit together in the cafeteria''.

But anyway this blog was supposed to just share my findings on the Guardian website concerning, what the journalist considers a conflict in interest concerning how some Afro Americans may vote in the upcoming Elections. Sorry if you didn't understand some of what I was trying to put across....my mind was just racing! Will keep you informed nevertheless

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/04/uselections2008.republicans20088