I love the current styles. Sadly, I'm on a spending diet, so I just admire and walk on.

Seriously adidas? I'd rather keep rolling with my reeboks, 'because life isn't a spectator sport'. Haha. I love these tags, Nike does the best motivational qoutes though. I can't remember my PB- it was a very long time ago! At the moment I'm working on building my endurance and then I'll start working on my times. I did a 5K last year and my time was a disasterous 42 Min. I did the 5k before the training so madness in methodology here but it got me started. So no complaints really.

Yay, MsMoon. Well done for starting. :cool: It is hard, the first day of each new week is the toughest but it gets easier as you go on -- until you start the next week but that's what I love about it. Constant challenge! I'm on week 5 now - I need to run more often to keep me going-- long rests just makes me lazy and the runs harder -- I was stuck in week 4 for ages because of that. Let me know how you're progressing. Xx

Heedhe muran ma xumee, laakin dee imisa jeer beynu isku qabsanaynaa keena awoow wacan or whether the dust in Burco is healthier than the dust in Qardho (true story, btw)?

How unfortunate for the child.

WOW. Impressive, Masha Allah. Well done Mohamed.

Salaams guys, I had to share the fantastic Somali recipe website I've stumbled on earlier this week.... www.mysomalifood.com-- I don't I've had any sisin or cambaabur bread since my childhood. Wow! Archdemos, Great point about smell of baking in a house. Nothing says home like it does. It beats uunsi, even.

Haduu jacayl igu hadhsaday Haduu hurdadii iga jaray Haduu halkaa joog iyidhi Hir baa ii hilaacayoo Hareeraha maba dayeen Hadal iyo dhamaan-- Sokeeye, shisheeye-- aji nabi cinda kama gidhiishto markuuu bahalkaa jacayl la dhaho la soo dariso....

This is a great way to show case your doqonimo, Caanogeel.

Yeah, group excercises make you work... but usually short lived for me. I'm a loner, I guess. MsMoons, At the moment I'm moving onto the treadmill because it's getting too hot for me to run out doors. I prefer the outdoors and find it easier and my usual track has the most beautiful setting around it, it's hard to tear myself away. Well done for starting--G'luck. Share your progress, Insha Allah. BTW.. Check out these cool podcasts for C25K runs. chubbyjones.libsyn.com/category/podcasts kissmyblackass.org

^Hmmm. Is that what you were exposed to in your 'average / common' Somali home education? Even for schooling faithfuls, the home remains the primary place of education, so I find the idea that parents (Somaalis in paeticular) are incapable of driving their childrens learning disturbing. De-schooling is not for the average Joe either, but as a learning system it can be validated by many learning theories and has many advantages and that's all am saying...

What does a 5 year old know???? Are you serious? Plenty! Unless they were locked in a dark room and not spoken to for 5 years. What's more crucial is that this is the phase where children are most curious, they want to know EVERYTHING and ask a lot of question and explore their surroundings . De-schooling focuses on the learning methodology rather than what is thought. Reading and writing is incorporated into the theme a child is interested in. I don't know where you got the idea that children who learn under this aproach are not thought to read and write??? As a learning system, it the one most suited for high / low achieving children and for parents who want absolute control over the values and ideas their children are exposed to. A with all learning systems it has it's pros and cons. but it's by far a system where learning is most meaningful and learner most valued. Salaams.

Zack.. I know what you mean. I'm just not interested in weights. Che, Would be nice to get more nomads on board. You can get more info on the following website. It's starts off really easy and it's amazing how much progress you make in a short time. www.coolrunning.com www.c25k.com

Nice book. Really want to go Egypt sometime, Insha Allah. I love their energy. p.s I've got a copy at home.

Qorax;724946 wrote: lol@ NimKO Nice video . Now reer London why do you love living in London? Is it the MARFESH? Is it the Cayrta? Is it Geerasheenta? Bal noo sheega lol Oi! Watch it you! :mad:

*Blessed, I think is the duller version of the real me as I'm pretty formal with people that I don't know (most of you) but I'd say the things I type on here offline too... I've met some great SOLers, some are good friends now, some were old friends and even family members. That's the cool thing about being yourself. Online people are like those on the streets-- some are cool, some are weird, some are full of themselves and some would do ANYTHING for a bit of attention.

I know what you mean, Che. LOL. Maybe you can join me on the C25K? I'm on recruitment mission.. . Haven't heard of Saciid -- is he on the international radar yet. It's nice to see more Somaali athletics. Zack, Thanks. I think I'm ready to move into alternate days. Funny you say that you've given up lifting, the instructor at the gym was on at me about strength training the other day. I know she just wants my money though... grr!

^LOL. Why? I'm surprised there aren't more nomad runners. Zack.. Oh. that's impressive. Did you start with 5 day runs or have you slowly increased the number of run days? I've been recomended rest days in between runs but I feel that it just makes me lazy... I'm getting back into running after a long break. I've been doing the C25K for awhile and only have a few weeks to go, so need to think about my options once that's done.

Aaliyyah;724461 wrote: ^ lol they actually believe in unschooling system, where they dnt teach their kids anything. Just answer their kids' questions if they ever get curious abt anything lol..(weird thing is how will their kids get curious if they are not exposed to education) De-schooling doesn't mean that you don't teach. Teaching is based on the child's interests and queries about their environment. Kids, adults and everyone is exposed to 'education' everyday and everywhere... There's a difference between education and schooling and one doesn't always benefit from being in the schooling system. In fact bright, gifted children and those with specific lerning needs domuch better in an irregular learning setting.. As long as those teaching are capable which is my only worry in this case...

LMAO. You're a funny lad. I don't mean professionally but did have something a bit more rigorous than running for the bus in mind.

Are there any runners in SOL?

Well said, Juxa. It's not only Somaalis meeshaan joogo, everyone but cadaanka wants to be white. There's no ceeb in it, you've TV adverts which promise that a lighter skin opens doors for you and the local super markets sell whitening creams. What really gets on my nerves is that they go on like a darker skin is dirty-- how small minded can you get. Ouf!

Illaahay ha u naxariisto, waalidkoodna samir iyo imaan haka siiyo.

Som@li;723816 wrote: ^which local market, Integrating with the triangle? Does Burco need to disintegrate with other Somali cities? Lol. How could. Burco not integrate with the triangle?

Nice of google to feature Ibn Khaldun today... and an interesting read.. Ibn Khaldun lived in north Africa 1332-1406, about a generation after William of Ockham. His Muqaddimah ('Introduction', namely to a work of history) originated as an attempt to work out how to decide whether historical sources are credible. An important question to ask is whether what the source relates is likely to have happened, i.e. whether it is the sort of thing that happens in human affairs. This inquiry led Ibn Khaldun to write a lengthy treatise on the processes of social and political change (cf. Aristotle's discussion of revolution and stability, Politics, book V). Ibn Khaldun was not a 'philosopher' (in the sense of an avowed follower of the Greek philosophers), but his thinking is much influenced by Aristotelian ideas, in particular the idea of nature as a source of development toward a goal. Ibn Khaldun thinks that no individual dynasty or society can permanently remain at a high level of development; soon after maturity is attained decay sets in (just as individual plants and animals achieve the maturity natural to their species and then decay). There are drawbacks to the fully developed social state, even before decay sets in; progress in civilisation is made at some cost. A factor that Ibn Khaldun emphasises as important in social and political development is 'a sense of solidarity' or 'group feeling' - the state of mind that makes individuals identify with a group and subordinate their own personal interests to the group interest. Without willingness to subordinate self to the group, peace and social development are not possible. Ibn Khaldun expects the sense of solidarity to be based originally and normally on kinship. A sense of solidarity can be powerfully supported by religion, and conversely no religion can make an impact unless its members have a strong sense of solidarity. Ibn Khaldun is a Muslim, but his theory of history is intended to apply not only to Muslim societies but to all societies. He rejects Avicenna's argument (The Healing, Metaphysics, X, chapter 2, in Readings) that society must be based on the work of a prophet, i.e. on true religion; even the 'Magians' (equivalent to 'pagans' in Christian terms) have states. The drive for royal authority is natural to all human groups (like other medieval Muslim writers Ibn Khaldun regarded monarchy as the normal form of government). Ibn Khaldun bases the desire for royal power, not on philosophical benevolence, but on the animal part of human nature (the equivalent of Plato's thumos, 'spiritedness', 'irascibility'). He does not idealise political power: men seek it as a good, it makes civilisation possible, but civilisation is not an altogether good thing and will not last. Political rule is in one respect good for everyone: it 'keeps men apart', i.e. prevents them from attacking one another. Ibn Khaldun sometimes sounds like Hobbes. The extracts in the Readings relate mostly to group feeling and to the rise and fall of dynasties. Ibn Khaldun's theory also extends to the rise and decay of cities and development and decay in economic life and in the sciences, showing the connection between the changes in these various aspects of culture or civilisation. Further Reading: Mushin Mahdi, Ibn Khaldun's Philosophy of History: A Study in the Philosophic Foundation of the Science of Culture (D116.7.I3.M3). See p. 187 ff for a summary of the content of Ibn Khaldun's science of culture; for the Aristotelian foundations of his approach see p. 159 ff, p. 171 ff, and p. 225 ff. http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/Ockham/y67s17.html