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Day 2975: 5 – 12 November Goals

“Every Monday is a chance to start a new life, so use it.” – Unknown

It’s 2: 17 PM on day 2975 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray read a Bible verse and do some work

Last week I set some goals and today I will again be evaluating myself to measure my progress and I’ll be setting some goals for the coming week as well. Take a look:

29 October – 5 November Goals Review

Continue to be kind, honest and generous (give more, do more and be more) [tried]
Be the best Supersidekick to my Superhero Catherine Constantinides [tried]
Spend time outside as often as I can [I did]
Finish reading Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi [not done yet]
Learn 7+ new things [not done]
Write done 7 beautiful moments of the week [not done often]
Try new things [not done]
Use social media to showcase the ability of differently-abled people and teach that Different IS COOL! [ tried]
Arrange to speak to do a talk in front of kids at a Sunday School nearby before the end of the year – public speaking is the only fear i have besides my family getting sick and dying I want to get over my fear of public speaking before 2018 ends.[contacted the Reverend asking him to give me the Youth Pastor’s contact details still waiting on a response]

Highlights of the Week

Finding out my sister has been placed back in our city for her internship starting next year (mother and father are delighted – and me too a little bit but don’t tell my sister wouldn’t want her to get a big head or anything)
Hearing my Superhero Catherine Constantinides’ very sweet voicenote – there she was on a plane to Egypt for the World Youth Forum and she thought to call me and when I couldn’t be reached she sent a voicenote she continues to teach me that when people truly love you their actions show it I was so profoundly touched by her determination to connect with me and her kindness (I LOVE my Superhero who never quits – I have many doubts in life but I NEVER doubt that God loves, my family loves me and my Superhero loves me she tells me and shows me often). When I grow up may I be half the person she is and a tenth as kind as she is PLEASE God. #HumanGoals
All the little big things I was able to do and bring about
Listening to Superhero speak at the World Youth Forum in Egypt – I was watching via livestream (where there’s a will there’s a way and for my family and my Superhero I ALWAYS have the will of a thousand people) Superhero made me and our country SUPERPROUD!
Getting through Friday’s physiotherapy session which was unusually painful
All the times this week I spend outside in nature

5- 12 November Goals

Continue to be kind, honest and generous (give more, do more and be more)
Be the best Supersidekick to my Superhero Catherine Constantinides
Spend time outside as often as I can and appreciate the little-big things
Finish reading Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Learn 7+ new things
Write done 7 beautiful moments of the week
Try new things
Use social media to showcase the ability of differently-abled people and teach that Different IS COOL!

Arrange to speak to do a talk in front of kids at a Sunday School nearby before the end of the year – public speaking is the only fear i have besides my family getting sick and dying I want to get over my fear of public speaking before 2018 ends

Day 2964: Catherine Constantinides Discusses Western Sahara on Let’s Have It Out #LHIO

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Catherine Constantinides to Acting Charge d’ Affaires, Abdelkader Naji of the Moroccan Embassy to South Africa [regarding Morocco’s 42-year illegal occupation of Western Sahara]: “How can you offer local autonomy to a country you don’t believe exists? ”

It’s 2 : 15 PM on day 2964 of my journey towards independence and I managed to spend time outside, read a Bible verse and do some work.

Last night My Superhero Catherine Constantinides guest anchored Let’s Have It Out discussing the Western Sahara Conflict with Acting Charge d’ Affaires, Abdelkader Naji of the Moroccan Embassy to South Africa I was impressed by Catherine’s restraint the Charge d’ Affaires’s only aim was to attack her and her only aim was for the truth to be known God bless her he tried to talk over and attack her meanwhile she was sticking to the facts and trying to make the world aware of Morocco’s 42-year illegal occupation of the Western Sahara – I picked my Superhero really well *impressed with self* . Please do watch the episode below and share:

Day 2906: Happy Birthday Superhero Catherine Constantinides We Greened The World For You!

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“Everybody can do something.” – Catherine Constantinides

It’s 5: 04 PM on day 2906 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read a Bible verse and do some work

A few weeks ago I decided to ask everybody all over the world to plant trees in honour of my Superhero Catherine Constantinides’s birthday which happens to be today. Happy Birthday Superhero as long as I live you will never fight alone – the trees planted in your honour are symbolic of the pillar of strength you are in all our lives. I LOVE YOU to the moon and more than the stars.

Thank you to EVERYONE who planted trees in honour of my Superhero’s Birthday.

Day 2853: Catherine Constantinides makes the #100YoungMandelas List

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“Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation”― Nelson Mandela

It’s 11 : 43 AM on day 2853 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read a Bible verse and have breakfast with mom.

Today News24.com announced the 100 Young Mandelas of the Future and I’m delighted to share that my Superhero Catherine Constantinides has made the list (I’m happy whenever anything good happens to anyone but I’m particularly happy when good things happen for and to my Superhero Catherine Constantinides because she is EVERYTHING good about humanity she drips humility, kindness, generosity, courage and integrity). Congratulations Superhero, you totally earned this please believe me and News24 .

https://mandela100.news24.com/media-grid/catherine-constantinides/

Day 2852: Dischem’s #MillionComforts Campaign

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“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. “ – Scott Adams

It’s 11 : 56 AM on day 2852 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read a Bible verse and have breakfast with mom

Yesterday In memory of the AMAZING Gugu Zulu ( a South African driver race car who died trying to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, as part of a Trek4Mandela expedition to raise funds for sanitary pads for school girls) and inspired by my Superhero Catherine Constantinides (who teaches me that I can be the difference everywhere every day and whose spirit and heart I carry in mine everywhere) my family and i proudly supported Dis-Chem Pharmacies‘s #MillionComforts campaign providing girls with sanitary pads helping them stay in school.

[Note: I’m sharing this with the intention of inspiring people to donate sanitary pads whether you think i’m a saint or a sinner is none of my business because my opinion of myself doesn’t fluctuate with the world’s opinion of me]

Day 2846: From My Superheroes With Love

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Maybe all the love I have is all the love I need– that’s what I’m realizing.

It’s 11 : 53 AM on day 2846 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read a Bible verse and do some work.

Two days ago my Superhero Catherine Constantinides called my dad and asked him if he could pick up a package she would send for me with her sister, Ella, who would be coming to town the following day I was absolutely blown away Catherine had just arrived in South Africa from Geneva that morning and she arranged for gifts to be hand-delivered to me the following day I was MIND-BLOWN that even when she is a far away land during very important things she and our friend from the Western Sahara (currently living in Geneva) Omaima, thought of me I’m in love with Catherine’s kindness even at her most tired she is so so so kind it’s extraordinary and something that I aspire to daily. Maybe just maybe I don’t need matrimony and parenthood to be okay maybe I can thrive on Catherine’s love, on Ella’s love, on Omaima’s love, on the love of my family and friends and that will be enough I’m so blessed to have Superheroes who love me so deeply when Catherine and Ella say they love me I believe them I hear it in their voices and see it in their eyes it comes from somewhere deep within each of them. Thank you Superhero Catherine, Ella and Omaima for bringing light and love into my every day

Day 2807: Catherine Constantinides Spotlights Western Sahara on MetroFM with DJ Fresh #AfricaMonth

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“Morocco is the last colonizer on the continent.” – Catherine Constantinides

It’s 12 : 42 PM on day 2807 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read a Bible verse, spend time outside, have breakfast and promote my 50 New Feet Campaign benefiting MiracleFeet – raised $14 469 only $4 281 more to raise by June 17, 2018 to reach my new goal of helping 75 kids with Clubfoot by June 17, 2018.

As you may or may not know May is Africa Month and in honour of that I would like to share the work that Human Rights Activist Catherine Constantinides is doing to help the Saharawi People, the people of the Western Sahara (the last colony in Africa) gain their right to self-determination. Listen to Catherine Constantinides’s 2018 interview with DJ Fresh about the Western Sahara below:

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Day 2784: Africa Month and the 42-Year Illegal Occupation of the Western Sahara

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“I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.” – Nelson Mandela

It’s 12 : 44 PM on day 2784 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read Exodus 23:25, have breakfast and promote my 50 New Feet Campaign benefiting MiracleFeet – raised $14 409 only $4 341 more to raise by June 17, 2018 to reach my new goal of helping 75 kids with Clubfoot by June 17, 2018.

The month of May is Africa Month and while I’m proud to be African and we have much to celebrate I would like to call attention once again to the illegal occupation of the Western Sahara by Morocco (can you imagine fleeing from war to what you thought would be a temporary refugee camp only to still be there 42 YEARS LATER?) the United Nations recognizes the Western Sahara as a country separate from Morocco but the referendum the UN promised in 1991 is yet to take place and why because Morocco has powerful allies at the UN. To the UN: I know for a fact that it does not take 27 YEARS to organize a referendum please I BEG of you put your selfish interests aside and think of the Saharawi children who are growing up in the blistering heat on the borders of Algeria with less than the basics.

Catherine Constantinides at the Saharawi Refugee Camp

A Week in Saharawi Refugee Camps | Michael Cost

Day 2603: Lessons in Kindness Taught To Me by My Superhero Catherine Constantinides

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It doesn’t cost much at all to be kind– that’s what my Superhero Catherine Constantinides continues to teach me.

It’s 12: 36 PM on day 2603 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read 1 Peter 3:14 and promote my 50 New Feet Campaign benefiting MiracleFeet -raised $4 388 only $8 112 more to raise by June 17, 2018 to help 50 kids with clubfoot (thanks to everyone who has helped out so far).

Yesterday my Superhero Catherine Constantinides called me from the airport on her way to the USA to speak at the Obama Foundation‘s Obama Summit just to say I carry you in my heart whatever I go I was just blown away and so touched I’m usually not the mushy sort but anyone would have to be made of stone not to be moved by that (it’s not just what she said and did that touched me so deeply but the context in which it was done I mean there she was ready to board a plane to go and be amongst the best minds and hearts in the world and she chose to call me to say I carry you in my heart whatever I go…simply extraordinary actually). Thank you Superhero for showing me what kindness looks like and sounds like and for teaching me that it is always necessary to be kinder than necessary (I love you more than Peanut Butter and French Toast).

Day 2539: A Superhero’s Life Through A Supersidekick’s Eyes. Happy Birthday Catherine Constantinides

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“A mentor enables a person to achieve. A hero shows what achievement looks like.” – John C. Mather

It’s 11 : 54 AM on day 2539 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read Zechariah 2:11, have breakfast and promote my 50 New Feet Campaign benefiting MiracleFeet –Lisa Dewberry donated $25 (thanks so much Lisa ) which brings the total raised to $3 230 only $9 270 more to raise by June 17, 2018 to help 50 kids with clubfoot.

Today is my Superhero Catherine Constantinides’s birthday and for her who humbly serves the world every day in every way I made a movie entitled A Superhero’s Life Through A Supersidekick’s Eyes- A Tribute to Catherine Constantinides I made the movie because I wanted to show her what she looks like through my eyes today and every day. Happy Birthday Superhero thanks for all that you are, all that you do and all that you’ve taught me but most of all thanks for always always showing up for me I still can’t believe you excused yourself from a meeting with some of the country’s most influential names to come paragliding with me I can’t tell you how much it meant to me to be chosen by you nobody ever picks me when something comes up I’m usually the first thing to be dropped but you chose me and continue to choose me every time you include me in all the moments of your life….. THANK YOU I will always love you to the moon and more than the stars.