Us girls have to endure lots of hardships on our way to becoming an adult! Some people always say that girls only care about their hair and how they look! Well, they don’t know what they’re talking about! Girls are very strong people and we take on daily challenges with the courage and strength that boys can only dream about having! Our first battle is called Climbing Mount Everest, that is also known as zits! Zits have always been a girl’s large enemy and we just want to get rid of them! Some girls were fortunate enough to have skipped this stage but most of us simply have to endure it! Luckily we have weapons that will help us win this battle against the evil kingdom of zits! Our first weapon is created by clever dermatologists in labs. They are scrubs, exfoliators, toners and many more. Each girl has a different kind of cleansing weapon, so go out there and find yours! My friend once said that the only way to overcome zits is to wait. I’ve been waiting for almost 2 years!! The second battle we have to overcome is our battle against aliens….aliens better known as boys! I know some girls probably love boys and there is nothing wrong with that. I myself have some great guy friends, but some guys….uuurgghh….words cannot describe how much they disgust me! Lurking around at school like vipers, waiting for their next victim! Since this battle is so dangerous, we have to be very careful. There is only ONE weapon in this battle against aliens and it is…. to ignore the enemy! I know that this probably sounds really lame, but it works! Some people might say that nothing goes away if you ignore it, but out of experience I can say that this is FULLPROOF! The last battle in our Long Walk to Freedom is the battle of our image! Although this is not all we care about, it is important because we must look good, while we do good! Be careful though, don’t let it take over your life! Hollywood stars like Kim Kardashian sets very high standards and we all feel like we have to live up to that, but I have good news… You Don’t! Be creative and dress the way you feel comfortable! Don’t change yourself just to fit in! Ignore all the nasty comments people make if you are a little different! Fashion isn’t everything, rather save the planet! The only weapon against the evil beauty forces is to be creative. Like I said before dress the way that matches your personality and no other way! You are special, just the way you are! So now the world knows our battles and we know our weapons! Let’s go out there and fight, because we are girls and we’re proud of it!
The Garbage King tells the story of two different boys, Mamo and Dani. Mamo is from a very poor family. His parents are deceased and he has no one left but his sister, Tiggist. One day when Tiggist is out looking for a job, Mamo is taken by a man claiming to be his Uncle Merga, who turns out to be a slave trader. He takes Mamo far away from the city and sells him to a cruel farmer who treats Mamo very badly. Tiggist becomes an assistant in Mrs Faridah’s shop and is a nursemaid to her daughter Yasmin. Mrs Faridah becomes jealous of her, so when a local lad shows an interest in her and promises to marry her once he has established himself with an electronics shop Triggist accepts enthusiastically. Meanwhile, in a prosperous part of Addis Abbaba, there is Dani from a rich and privileged backround. He is in serious trouble with his father because he forces him to study to get good grades. His father wants him to go to an army man to be toughened. His mother is very sick she gets moved to England, London where she gets good medical care. He couldn’t stand the vision of being at home alone with his horrible father, so he packs some valuable clothes into a backpack and runs away. At the same time Mamo is strong enough and at least he manages to escape from his master and hitches back to Addis. The two boys are out in the streets now, alone. Dani hides in a graveyard that his father cannot find him if he recognizes that he had left home. Somehow Mamo got into that graveyard too. Mamo and Dani form an unexpected alliance while each sleeps in the streets. Together they join a gang of streetboys, begging but not stealing. They each offer different talents to the group, which has a strict code of sharing whatever they get hold of: Mamo becomes the garbage king, he is an expert at finding treasures on rubbish heaps; Dani writes stories which the others sell for a few coins. Each becomes more and more accustomed to this way of life. One day Mamo is out in the streets with some stories of Dani, he tries hard to sell them. He passes a school right on time when all the young children were about to leave school to go home. As some teachers passed him he tries to sell the story, at least one of them bought it. It was the older teacher of Dani, Ato Mesfin, he recognizes his handwriting and went to the Father of Dani, Ato Paulos. They talked for a while; Danis father is surprised and speechless. Obviously they have a clue now where Dani might be. Ato Mesfin knows the street children quite well and also some gangs. After speaking with some of the homeless people in the street, they knew their pitch. Soon Ato Paulos and Ato Mesfin find him, sitting on the fire with his gang mates. His Dad is out of his mind he cant believe what he sees. His son,completely thin, packed in dirty clothes, a street child. He cant comprehend that his son left home for living a life like this, begging for food and water everyday, coping for survival. He is brainstorming of all the things he has done to him. Has he really been such an awful father to him? Obviously he has. Anyway at the end Ato Mesfin took the leadership, he knows how to get Dani back home. At first there was no way for him to go back to his cruel father. After speaking for a while Dani changes his mind as he heard that his mother is doing fine and she will get home soon. He leaves his gang and their pitch, and went off with his Father. Mamo was disappointed, he had a certain relationship to Dani, he kind of was his only attachment figure. He is sitting there on the fire very angry and sad, he didn’t speak for a while then he walked off from the other boys. He wants to find his sister. He went back to the shop where she used to work, but there was no Tiggist anymore. A boy selling fruit in the front of the store told him she lives with her husband and that they are married now. At last Mamo finds his elder sister,the new shop and her husband. She was really happy to have her little brother back. He gets new clean clothes, food, and a warm bed. It was the first time that Mamo got the feeling back, of being protected, of having a regular home and a proper work. He feels very confident and happy. The two boys didn’t lose their contact, they meet each other every now and then. They get food and new clothes for their old gang mates when they can.
Jane Quimby (Erica Dasher) is a teenager who is mistaken for an adult and lands a job in a hip fashion house. She must balance her high school life and her job. She has her best friend Billy (Nick Roux) help her out, although he has a relationship with Lulu (Meagan Tandy), a girl who has been mean to Jane since the seventh grade. Jane’s father died and her mother has run away and no one knows where to. Her brother Ben (David Clayton Rogers) tries to make money by getting jobs, but the jobs never work out until he lands a job as the athletic assistant at Jane’s school. At Donovan Decker Jane discovers a word full of fashion challenges working for Gray Chandler Murray (Andie MacDowell) and tackles them with the help of her co-workers, Jeremy Jones, (Rowley Dennis), India Jourdain (India de Beaufort), Carter (Ser’Darius Blain) and Birdie (Brooke Lyons). Jane tries to be the best at her job and her school, juggling the everyday challenges of high school and the world of fashion. Catch it on: series/dstv: fridays at 19:30
This is a thriller set in London’s slave trade and centered on a woman’s fight for freedom. Storyline Based on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer, the story unfolds as twelve-year-old Malia, daughter of champion wrestler Bah is abducted from her Sudanese village in the Nubar Mountains by pro-government Arab militia and sold into slavery to a woman in Khartoum,who beats her for touching her daughter. After six years she is sent to London,where her name is changed but her miserable life of servitude continues. Her passport is taken away and she is told that her father will die if she goes to the authorities. Fortunately she meets a sympathetic person who seems to offer her the hope of escape and reunion with Bah back in Sudan. For all the film’s optimism its sad because an end title states that there are around 5,000 ‘slave’ workers currently in Britain. Highly recommended by me!
Spilt Milk is a proud South African fashion b
rand based in Cape Town CBD. The label found its beginnings in 2004 and has over the past 6 years matured into an ‘easy to wear’, exquisitely detailed and subtly avant garde style with the latest range showcasing the innovative use of signature details such as folding, draping, piping and pintucks. (See the 2010 catalogue out now) Alma van den Berg who is both the founder and the designer behind the label is a graduate of the Haute Couture School of Fashion. Subsequent to finishing her studies she spent two years lecturing pattern making and design studies at the school while also supplying Spilt Milk to Mix Clothing stores. During 2006 she worked abroad for the well-known London based designer Jacques Azagury while returning to lecture full time in 2007 and 2008. Alma’s work has been showcased at various prestigious events including the ‘Smirnoff Rare Fashion Finds’ show (2004), the ‘Nederberg Fashion show (2006) and was also featured on Top Billing for the ‘Momentum Lifestyles Awards’, She has further supplied wardrobe for Music videos including Artists such as the Coca cola pop stars, Red Angel, Jimmy Dlu Dlu and Dorp, as well as Television commercials such as Brutal fruit and the recent Hansa Pilsner ‘Vuyo’s Wors’ adverts. Spilt Milk is available at: Mungo and Jemima, Long street and from the Spilt Milk Studios, Upper Orange street.
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