20131228, Article, Taichung

[Jasmine0316]

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Time：第 253次例會，2013年12月28日（週六）下午2:30~5:30點
Place：
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Agenda
14:30~15:30 Session One
15:30~15:50 Speech Session
15:50~16:00 Change Group and then Break Time
16:00~17:15 Session Two
17:15~17:30 Happy Time

Host: Kevin
Assistant Host:

Topic:
51 Random Facts About . . . Africa

Source:
http://facts.randomhistory.com/2009/07/23_africa.html
Reference:
Map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:African_continent-en.svg

Please Note:
Venue:台中市南屯區大業路182號 Mos Burger
Thanks a lot for your attention.

Questions:
1. We are all not familiar with countries in Africa. We would like to ask table host to send out Africa maps prepared by Kevin and go through these names of country that are listed below.
(2-1) North (Western Sahara、Morocco、Algeria、Tunisia、Libya、Egypt、Sudan)。
(2-2) Horn (Ethiopia、Somalia)。
(2-3) Eastern (Uganda、Seychelles、Mauritius、Tanzania、Rwanda)。
(2-4) Southern (Botswana、Swaziland、South Africa)。
(2-5) Central (Sao Tome and Principe)。
(2-6) Western (Burkina Faso、Nigeria、Liberia、Sierra Leone)。
There are three countries, Sao Tome and Principe, Swaziland and Burkina Faso having diplomatic relations with Taiwan. Please refer to today’s main article

2. There are few movies playing in the background of Africa, for example Captain Phillips 怒海劫 (Somalia, 2013), Madagascar1/2/3 馬達加斯加 (Madagascar, 2012, 2008 and 2005), Invictus 打不倒的勇者 (South Africa, 2009), Mummy1/2/3 神鬼傳奇 (Egypt, 2008, 2005 and 1999), Blood Diamond 血鑽石 (Sierra Leone, 2006), Hotel Rwanda 盧安達飯店 (Rwanda, 2004), The Last King of Scotland 最後的蘇格蘭王 (Uganda, 2006), Black Hawk Down 黑鷹計畫 (Somalia, 2001), The English Patient 英倫情人 (Egypt ,1996), The God must be Crazy 上帝也瘋狂 (Botswana, 1989, 1985 and 1980), and Out of Africa 遠離非洲 (Uganda, 1985). Which movies have you watched? Could you tell us in detail about this movie in the background of Africa and how you feel about this movie?

3. What is your image of Africa? Which country do you want to travel to? What would you like to see and experience?

4. Will you accept to do volunteering job or let your children to have a volunteer vocation in Africa? If you accept, what do you expect to learn from that? If you don’t accept, what are your concerns about it?

5. Mainstream media don’t pay much attention to Africa. Why is Africa behind other six continents? Could you share with us about possible reasons (Ethnic conflicts, food shortage, drought, and poverty) of this issue?

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[Jasmine0316]

Dear Taichung Happiers,

Close your eyes, and say “Africa”. What do you see? Do you see energetic elephants? Do you see the word “Unfair”? You might see “Heart of Darkness”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIFUHIM-w7M How about the profound pleasure in kids’ innocent smiles? Not a single one of these answers is wrong. Our host Kevin even has 51 random facts about Africa! Come join us to share what kind of Africa you are dreaming of.

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion, or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle, or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better start running” --by The New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman. What do you think of this quote? Moreover, would you like to help Africa in Mandela’s way— listening to the country? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZY8c_a_dlQ Anyway, anyway, anyway, Africa is such a place; it doesn’t allow us to have just one emotion at one time.

Before we can ask each other about our favorite 2013 film, Kevin has offered the film list related to Africa. What a feast for the eyes. Awesome. When I close my eyes and say “Africa”, I see …….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRpeEdMmmQ0 “Waka Waka, eh eh……”Ladies and gentlemen, this time, for Africa! We all have a lot more to know than we can know about Africa. Girls and boys: our last show of 2013. See you on 12/28! We are all Africa.





Best Wishes,
Jasmine

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