Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon

I just got my Amnesty tshirt that they promised me on TV!!!! It's really bright blue, my favourite shade and they said that they hope that I will wear it so that maybe more people will get involved. But there is a problem! They never asked me what size I was! This thing is huge! It goes down to halfway down my thighs ( and I'm 5" 6 and a half!)and the "short sleeves" go past my elbows considerably! It's totally pajama material but how can I go to bed with a sound conscience knowing I'm not doing my part to spread the word?

Also they gave me a post card to mail to His Excellency Issayas Afeweki.. even though I'd like to address him as Your Assholeness. Aster Yohannes has been detained at an unknown location and denied communication with anyone from the outside world. Her husband is a prisoner of conscience. He was head of security and intelligence in the Eritrean People's Liberation Front during the liberation struggle. He abd other government ministers was arrested on the grounds of being a "traitor" when he was peacefully calling for democratic reform.

It's known that several thousand of these prisoners of conscience are being held without charge or trial since 2001 and some are believed to be in underground cells or metal shipping containers!

Not to be imposing, and not to remind you that you basically won a lottery being born in a western society, etc etc. I figured we'd be more persuasive collectively. Call for the immediate release of Aster Yohannes and her husband Petros Soloman and that she be given necessary medical care ( she has heart problems and asthma :(

His Excellency Isssayas Afewerki
president of the state of Eritrea
Office of the President
PO BOX 257, Asmara, Eritrea

I really hope some of you will write this letter. I had exactly 3 49 cent stamps in my wallet! (COINCEDENCE?!~!?) to be able to mail this out.

alright time for beds~
tchock the human rights advocate

Today is my 10 months with my cute bf. He is so adorable. He single handedly made me think that men are adorable puppies made for us to love. Why am I gushing? I don't know! It perhaps has something to do with being in solitary confinement in my room and being cut off from the outside world for awhile. I cannot wait til I can finally party.

 Anyways. Happy 10 months Mani :)

OK. SOOOOOO.. I was going to put a few pics of me, friends and mani up. Sadly they are too big to fit so I can only show you one of my friends ( who is one of my bestest friends, Lisa) and separate pics of me and Mani :(:(:( So sad. So you'll have to try your best to put us together in your head. I was going to put up pics of my fam but my sisters are too pretty and I'm afraid a weirdo might take their pics and like.. build a shrine and stuff. no serious. My friends are pretty too but they can take care of themselves.. and also Lisa has like 4 older brothers that could be body guards so it's cool.

First up is Me. I'm sorry but the only pics that would take are of me on webcam talking to Mani. This was last year in residence so you get to see a year in review

First of all, this is lisa. being really cute and flirty for the camera!!

Next is Mani about to eat with me over the net.

Then eating..


Isn't he cute when he eats?
argh.. I hate putting pics of myself up.. :( ok but here goes nothing
This is a drunk pic of me that mani put up on his avatar once


but more accurately, I have taken up wearing glasses so the nextr pic looks more like me


Oh.. did I mention my bf is hot? I call the next one, "incredibod"


he could break me in half really. He tells me he never feels a thing when I hit him playfully.. and I like.. try to hurt him too!



sigh... I can't believe I don't have better pics than this.. I need to start jumping infront of the camera more often and pray for a good pic
i need to put up nicer pics! these are so ugly i want to cry! But atleast they're kinda funny to look at.. the candid shots of mani eating and me scratching my head.. hehehe



This is the chain mani wears around his neck all the time and then took it off for the first time in like years as a sweet gesture, for me to keep until I saw him again and me, being allergic to nickel got weird red rashes all over my neck the next day :(



This is Mani hamming it up infront of webcam. He's dancing hahah




And this is mani's favourite shirt.. ok.. now I have no pics.. well I do.. but they are too big to upload onto this stupid page.

Last one



this picture looks squashed but I can't fix it :s
aren't we cute?
Ok.. that's my present to Mani for today :)

enjoy!
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