Meeting with K'NAAN

I just discovered this talented singer while doing some research.
His songs are awesome.
I encourage you to listen some of them and tell me what you think.

Here is the link to learn more about him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%27naan

Five titles that you can check on Youtube to discover what the K’NAAN’s style is:

Waving Flag
Fire in Freetown
In the beginning
Take a minute
ABC's

In my case, his songs are kind of helping me to recharge my batteries when I’m tired!
His lyrics are full of rhymes and deal with issues such as history, politics, education etc.

The last time I bought a CD was in 2004, and next week I’m going to buy his CD, just because he is great.

My Valentine's Day

Today is President's Day and yesterday was Valentine's Day. Wednesday, after my last class of the week, I went to Sacramento to visit my friends.

I spent two nights at my friend Ousseny's house, he has one son and one daughter. The two last nights I was at my cousin's house, she has one daughter. As you can see on the pictures I spent my time with Ousseny and my cousin' daughters. I don't know why but I like kids. I like them so much when I was a young boy I wanted to have my first child at 21 years old...

Kelya is the name of my cousin's daughter. I visited Kelya once a week when I was in Sacramento. I miss her a lot. So on my Valentine's Day I took care of her and did my maps at the same time. It was my first time to spend a lot of time with her and it was so hard because she was trying to type on the keyboard or taking away my book. I was so happy though because when I see a baby smiling that's enough to me to feel good ... I took a lot of pictures and videos of her. Babies are beautiful, adorable but they give a lot of work to the mother. My cousin is so brave to raise her baby alone, and keep studying.

I said God bless all mothers
and thank you to my mom for everything.

English or Japanese

Konnichiwa watashi wa Goé desu, yoroshiku onegaishimasu!

Why am I here in the U.S?
I'm here to improve my English and enjoy the best quality of the American education.

Why am I learning English?

First, English is so cool. I prefer for example to watch a movie in English instead of in a French version. There are some expressions that it's better to hear them in the original Language. A majority of most popular songs in the world are in English; I hate when I listen to music and I can't understand the lyrics. When I was in Europe or Africa everybody wanted to speak English because it just makes you feel good :-)!

Second, it's the international language. It is used in all fields: business, medicine, sciences etc. My major is economics and I think without English I cannot explore it in depth the current economic world.

BUT I LOVE JAPANESE.

I love Japanese's culture, cuisine, history etc.

For me Japanese is the coolest language in the world.
When I'm watching Japanese animation, I'm always so excited.
Why? I don't know.

You know when you love something or someone too much, it's so difficult to express that love with words.

The U.S. gave me the opportunity to meet Japanese friends and keep practicing that fabulous language.
I wish after my master's degree I can move to the "Land of The Rising Sun".

Arigatô mina-san!
Goé-chan.

My Wednesday.

I woke up last Wednesday and as usually I take a shower, put on my clothes, and check everything in my apartment before I leave. Then I took the bus to the university. I have only one class on Wednesdays: Economic History of the United States.

After the class my brother, J.M, invited me to a Chinese restaurant. Then I don't know why I wanted to check if I had everything with me today.

The answer is NO. I had a huge hole in my pocket. So I lost my keys (it cost me 50 dollars to get the apartment and the mail box locks replaced), my credit cards, my California ID and 2 dollars lol :-).

So the afternoon was crazy. I had to call the banks to have my cards cancelled, DMV to set up an appointment to get a new ID card, etc.

I remember in my psychology class the professor asked us if we had any responsibility like children etc most people answered no, but now I realize that my first responsibility is me.

Anyway, things are going well now, hope that will never happen again, but I doubt it :-). As my apartment manager said, things like that always happen not to me only but also to everybody else.

Introduction

Hi my name is Goé Toé. I'm From Burkina Faso, West Africa. My permanent address is in Germany because my parents live there. Before I came here I studied 5 years in France in Accounting and Management. I just came here in to the U.S last March as an English Language Institute Student at California State University Sacramento. Then I transfered to Lincoln Universty to finish my undergraduate studies in Economics.

So this is my first blog, I'm sure I will have fun uploading my works on it, and hope you will have fun reading and correcting them.

Thank You.