Little helper
The little peacekeeper is helping us in the UNICEF pavilion at FACIM today.
Author: Caroline Bach
Pictures and Sleep Party People
Maputo is cloudy today after yesterday’s storm, and I’m soon going back to FACIM. It’s the last day today and I expect to get promotional T-shirts, bags and random business cards thrown at me all day, as in the ending of most expo’s.
Anyway, while relaxing at home yesterday I found a song that I would like to share with you.
This messy little beat was released a month ago by Andrea x Kodak To Graph and it’s called Pictures. The tune is so random that I can’t really think of in what occasion it would be perfect to listen to. Other than now, that is. I guess it’s one of those songs that you would put in a “random” or, as in my case “Pretty Much Amazing” playlist on your iPod and look up at those moments when you’re not really sure what you want to listen to. Yes, that’s exactly what this song is for: For when you’re looking forward to something great, without yet knowing what it is. Ha!
The second song goes in the same playlist. Here’s Sun Glitters featuring vocals from Danish Sleep Party People, edited by Tours. The song has been named Alone. I would say it gives the feeling of the good kind of alone, though.
This one was released 10 days ago, and I don’t know if you noticed, but there are download buttons up there. The artists are sharing these fresh pieces of art, awesomely, legally and for free. Because sharing is caring. Ciao!
Last days at FACIM
Tons of people here – and of course, UNICEF is still around as well, tomorrow is the last day of FACIM. On my first day, when passing by the Turkish pavilion, I told the hosts there how much I like their coffee and got the promise that I could get a bag of the coffee they serve in the pavilion if I come by in the end of the fair.
And guess what, they kept their promise!
To the rescue
Things that will save you if you are going to sleep after sunrise in a house where the family with two loud little children will be waking up in one hour.
What a great night, really. We visited three different clubs and only stopped dancing when the sun came up. The new girls were teaching me some steps and a Malawian dance that looks like: “ouch, I’ve hurt my back!” So much fun.
Boa noite.
Sun is up
It’s about time to stop dancing.
Hello Moto
Traditional healers are still a big deal here in Mozambique. They offer to help out with anything from stomach ache to heart problems, and promise to ensure a salary increase, new cars, love, and luck. Just like Doctor Moto above.
A taxi driver once told me that the “real” healers go through some kind of three year advanced training where they learn traditional medicine and other tricks, and one of their main rules is that they are forbidden to advertise their services. That people instead know them through the community and they are very popular and important.
So ‘everybody’ around uses the healers. The ‘real’ one’s, the commercial one’s, the very expensive and famous one’s. And I’m starting to get very curious about what Doctor Moto would tell me if I asked him to hook me up with a higher salary and somebody to love. What do you think? Maybe I should call him, maybe at least to say “Hello Moto.”
A glimpse of Copenhagen
Here’s a photo I took when walking through Copenhagen recently.
Imagine this, plus super sleek, smart and modern Danish design, the best pastry in the world, streets perfectly suitable for biking, laid-back people in cafés all over the city, ecological and healthy food, green parks, tons of art galleries, and a fashion minded and energetic live music and nightlife scene.
The best city in the world? Possibly.
Live from FACIM
I’m at FACIM, the annual international fair in Maputo, come visit us!
Prime time
I love being able to come in after a proper breakfast and then sit in the office until late, which is my prime time in terms of productivity. In the Embassy I always had to be in at 7.30 and leave before all the diplomats had left.. Here, I can just stay around as long as I want to, listen to music, and keep on working – managing my own time. #likeabaws.
Something about Stella
Here’s a beautifully random coincidence for you:
Yesterday when my friends picked me up to take me to Catembe, the driver was playing one of my favourite songs ever that I hadn’t heard in a really long time. I was euphoric, sang along and wouldn’t let him change it, he said that “Something about us” was the only one he had from the album – which was perfect as it was the only one I wanted to hear. We crossed the bay and ended up all having a great night out, as you already know.
Just now, while blogging and chatting on Facebook about yesterday’s evening and photos – the same friend writes “Your Portuguese is stellar” which I find being a nice expression. Around that moment, I go: “pick a random number” and he picks the number 19.
Why I wanted a number? Because I sometimes pick a random page in my blog to read, you know, the way you sometimes would open an old book in the middle just to dive into those memories again.
So I write http://www.carolinebach.com/blog/page/19/ – and start scrolling. And what do I find? It’s just a pretty frikkin’ perfect coincidence, don’t you think?