Word: wanderings
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...Afghanistan's youth have never known peace. For two decades, their country has been at war, first with the Soviets and then among homegrown factions. So many children wander the streets with firearms that, after a while, scenes of 12-year-olds skipping along with Kalashnikovs slung over their shoulders seem almost normal. If Afghanistan is ever to settle into peace, these children will have the hardest time adjusting to a place where people don't resolve political squabbles with the pull of a trigger. "One of the most difficult things to change in our country is the younger generation...
...meet up with friends at the tailgates. (There is ALWAYS a non-exclusive tailgate on days of home football games, as the H-club teams up with another group or person and provides food to match the already abundant drink.) You revel in the tailgate merriment, and then wander over with a friend or two to the rugby field. Once you are perpetually confused by the rules to the sport , you head back to the tailgates for a bit and meet up with a few straggling friends. This back and forth between various games and tailgates continues until about...
...with a distant relative who runs a wildlife orphanage outside of Bulawayo, a large city in the south of the country. Karin stepped out of the car to open the gate, and Adam continued driving up a long driveway. Karin closed the gate behind her, began to wander through a garden leading to the house, and felt a “presence” behind...
Every morning, just after dawn, the first of a group of dignified, luxuriantly bearded Afghans go into a flower-filled garden bounded by a spring-fed stream and open their Korans. Later they pray and eat breakfast, nodding solemnly to the bedraggled foreigners who wander outside. This serene setting is in fact part of the defense ministry of the United Front. Only two things give any hint of the place's real purpose: the crackle of radios and the comings and goings of officers--Bismullah Khan, the overall commander for the area, said to be in intense negotiations with Taliban...
...Christmas, Aaron started to make his own designs that range from the popular spiral configuration to vertical lines, wavy lines and hearts. Those take a very long time to make, he says. People really like the vertical stripes but I can make lines that wander all around the shirt. You get to work with the curves and it affects the folding. Thats the part I like a lot. Aaron says that his father wears quite a bit of his tie-dye creations, but his mom not so much...