Diary of Ingrid, 15th November
Piles of peanuts: globalization in a nutshell.Friday, 15th November 2002.We meet each other for the first time at the airport at Zaventem. I acquaint myself to Isabelle Scholliers, a 39-year-old female farmer from the area of Aalter. Together with her husband she runs a cattle farm of milk cows. The second to meet is Dirk Musschoot, a 41-year-old journalist of Het Nieuwsblad. His writing is not restricted to newspaper articles, he writes books too.Jan Wyckaert, a member of Vredeseilanden, offers us some last advice. He assures us that we will be welcomed at Dakar by Wilfried Fieremans: "a long thin man with a beard and his francophone wife".The flight is relaxing: we are all three sitting next to each other. Dirk is very tired from the preceding hectic days and eagers for some de-stressing.In little bits and parts, Isabelle starts to tell me about her life: this is the first time she...
