I have never had an oral exam before today. My christening went fairly well, but the question and answer portion of it went a bit awry at the end when I decided to start a long babbling monologue. C'est la vie. My Human Rights Law prof should have known better than to ask me my views on the US Supreme Court as the last wrap-up question.
Speaking of human rights in action, the church shelter was a lot more full today. Another 40 people arrived last night and over the course of the day, so now there are around 80. My favorites are the family from Burundi. They have two little boys and one baby. One of the boys name is Mustafa and he's pretty feisty, and pretty adorable. The parents can't speak English completely fluently, but the husband did his best to tell me about Burundi's current government, which was interesting. Burundi is like a twin to Rwanda and they have had the same type of power-struggles between Tutsis and Hutus. Right now the president is Hutu. I feel so bad for the family though, because they had to spend two nights sleeping in the bush before they somehow made it to the church (in the city). Now the three children have scabies, but I think they will be getting treatment tomorrow.
Mayor Helen Zillah has shown herself to be somewhat of a crackpot regarding the whole refugee situation. Even though the emergency shelters thrown together by the city are filled to capacity, not nice at all, and turning people away, Mayor Zillah was still quoted saying that the refugees need to leave the informal church shelters because those are needed for events like weddings. Give me a break. It's not even a good wedding season. There are 10,000 refugees sleeping on the streets. Once those are taken care of by the city shelters, only then should the informal ones start closing down.
My Cousin: "Why are you painting your nails black? You're going to look goth."
Me: "Auntie Lynn paints her nails black, and she doesn't look goth."
My Cousin: "Well, then I suppose it is fine because Auntie Lynn is a MILF."
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