Good 'ole Tejas

Hello Friends and Family,

You may be thinking it is time for a personal reflection of a long season, but do not jump the gun! The season for your's truly has yet to come to a close.

At the end of the year there are a few meets in Asia. I am doing two of them. Kawasaki, Japan and Daegu, Korea!

I am home in Texas for a few days before I head out. It was amazing coming back home! I have been gone for the longest I ever had, 2 months. I love Europe, but I missed home.

Well, in any case, I compete on the 23rd and 25th. After that I come home and will post a season finale of sorts!!

Keep supporting me! I love it, and have the best support and fans out there! I will go to asia and do my best win, and close my season with pizazz! Because I can!

All the best!!

Funmi K J
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Comments

[Roo]

Hola Funmi!

Glad you’re home and able to recuperate. T’has been a long season indeed. I think more so for us, your loyal fans :-), cause we bite our nails off with every jump, or we hold our breaths ‘til we turn blue in the face, or we scream ‘till the neighbours come knocking. And when you don’t make the cut we don’t sleep for days! Okay, that’s probably just me...

Winning, as with most things in life, is a destination... To get there one has to embark on a journey. It is the quality of your journey that ultimately determines whether you even reach your destination or not. As much as being an athlete is about winning, I think more of it is about what you do to achieve it. You, dearest Funmi, are well on your way to getting there. You’ve shown remarkable strength of character in bouncing back from your previous meet, you’ve remained positive throughout, you’ve shown guts and a determination to succeed. You’re honest with yourself (and with the rest of us) about where you are, compared to where you want to be... All this attest to you being a good, no GREAT athlete to whom younger athletes can look up to.

Congrats on your performance in Thessalonika.

Will surely be sitting too close to the tele again for your next meet ready to chew nails and scream ‘til the neighbours come knocking (again)! :-)

Laters,
Roo
(Johannesburg, South Africa)

[Canek]

I hear Japan is a lot safer now that Godzilla has been captured. So you know, that's one less thing to worry about.

GOOD LUCK!

[Kenneth Wilcots]

Hi Funmi, Mambo Sauce is a go-go band in DC gaining a lot of popularity! I hope you enjoy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXgzDr8cq8Q&feature=related

[Roo]

Funmi,

Heita (Hello)!

In South Africa we have 11 official languages of which you’re about to receive your first lesson in 3 of them. :-)

Afrikaans, which is my mother-tongue (home language), SeSotho and IsiZulu. IsiZulu is the most widely used language in South Africa with more than 23% mother-tongue speakers. It's therefore imperative to acquaint yourself with it for when you visit us. You’ll notice I use the word 'when', not 'if'! :-)

To say ‘We miss you.’:

Afrikaans – ‘Ons verlang na jou’ (Directly translated to English you’d say ‘we miss to you’. Afrikaans is a beautiful, and expressive language in which one uses the copulative quite often. In fact, Afrikaans poems have such impact due to the expressive nature of the language.)

SeSotho – ‘Re go gopotse’ (You simply say each syllable of each word phonetically, and the words conjunctively as if the 3 words were one word.) The ‘g’ in this case is pronounced almost as a voiceless explosive with your tongue in the back of your throat, almost like a gargling sound, but not quite. :-)

IsiZulu – ‘Sikukhumbulile’ (Say ‘seekookoombooleelê’.) In my opinion the Zulu language is the most beautiful language on the planet. The words are written and spoken conjunctively and therefore flows beautifully off the tongue. I can sit for hours and stare and listen to a mother-tongue speaker speak. Even if what is being said is a load of hogwash, I couldn’t mind. :-)

That ought to be enough for today. . . Pop quiz this Friday! :-)

Take care of yourself and let us know whatsup cause SIKUKHUMBULILE KAKHULU (kakhulu means ‘a lot’ in IsiZulu) !!!!!

Have a beautiful day.
Geniet jou dag vêrder.
O be le letsatsi le monate.
Ube nosuku oluhle.

Roo,
Johannesburg, South Africa.

[Ron Westerlund]

Hii, I hope your wound from the barbell is all healed and that your training goes as you want it.
Wish you all good luck in the future and i will follow as much as i can on the track and field competition and see when you beat everybody in the long jump.
Best wishes... Ron from Sweden

[WALE JIMOH]

FUNMI AM PROUD OF U, AM UR BROTHER WALE JIMOH

[WALE JIMOH]

so girl when are going to see? get across to me via email i will be grateful OK said her to Dad Wale Jimoh.