Not So Far From Home:
Besides a dial-up internet connection, and 24-hour news on CNN and Al-Jazeera, there are so many ways to remind us of our connected world here. Last night we watched the movie “Dreamgirls,” via a good-quality pirated DVD – the only possible way to see new movies in this part of the world. Purchasing the movie cost just under $5.
Today, my sis-in-law Sherry is busy working on a flurry of cake orders. She holds a B.S. from the University of Virginia and went to dental school at the University of Maryland. After having children she discovered her talent at making cakes – hence, her home-based Sweet Tooth Bakery. Since yesterday she finished nine cakes. Many of them are requests for characters ranging from Snow White to Kim Possible and the Power Rangers. The most popular, by far, is the BRATZ cake.
Bratz now outsell Barbie worldwide, and come complete with bedroom eyes and whory outfits. Their motto is: “We have a passion for fashion.” So, every little girl who can afford it in the Gambia, wants a Bratz cake for her birthday. This particular cake she just finished is for a Lebanese girl whose parents are strict Muslims and whose mother is covered from head to foot, but her daughter “wants nothing but the blond Bratz character for her birthday!”
Besides a dial-up internet connection, and 24-hour news on CNN and Al-Jazeera, there are so many ways to remind us of our connected world here. Last night we watched the movie “Dreamgirls,” via a good-quality pirated DVD – the only possible way to see new movies in this part of the world. Purchasing the movie cost just under $5.
Today, my sis-in-law Sherry is busy working on a flurry of cake orders. She holds a B.S. from the University of Virginia and went to dental school at the University of Maryland. After having children she discovered her talent at making cakes – hence, her home-based Sweet Tooth Bakery. Since yesterday she finished nine cakes. Many of them are requests for characters ranging from Snow White to Kim Possible and the Power Rangers. The most popular, by far, is the BRATZ cake.
Bratz now outsell Barbie worldwide, and come complete with bedroom eyes and whory outfits. Their motto is: “We have a passion for fashion.” So, every little girl who can afford it in the Gambia, wants a Bratz cake for her birthday. This particular cake she just finished is for a Lebanese girl whose parents are strict Muslims and whose mother is covered from head to foot, but her daughter “wants nothing but the blond Bratz character for her birthday!”
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