UGANDA | Friday, 18 Jul 2014 | Views [375]
I saw Elephants. I saw elephants. I saw Elephants (now imagine that in a sing song slightly nagging voice). I have seen them before in the zoo, but nothing can compare to seeing tens of these mammoth pachyderms in their natural habitat of the African ... Read more >
UGANDA | Friday, 11 Jul 2014 | Views [336]
Today it poured. When it rains here the sky turns one colour like a clean slate. For the first time in over a month the sky turned one colour, and rain came down from the heavens. For a good while at work the windows were torrents of rushing water like ... Read more >
UGANDA | Friday, 11 Jul 2014 | Views [370]
Though Jenna and I told you about our project over the trip I feel the need to write it down. This will help you remember and will also help me to understand where I want to go with the project. Jenna and I are working on a video project for Salama Shield.... Read more >
UGANDA | Friday, 11 Jul 2014 | Views [331]
Our class covered refugee movement and NGOs in East Africa and a global context from roughly 1972 to 2012. We read numerous articles (around three or four a week) on different issues surrounding this topic. These articles discussed religious NGOs, the ... Read more >
UGANDA | Monday, 7 Jul 2014 | Views [180]
I hate being white. Let me rephrase that, I hate that colonialism fucked people up so much that some people value me more than they do others because of the colour of my skin. It makes me sick. My sister Imachulet returned home from school with a fever ... Read more >
UGANDA | Monday, 7 Jul 2014 | Views [380]
After we participated in the community works day our group loaded in the car for the two and a half hour drive to Lake Kivu, a large lake on the boarder of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. As we left the city we saw only a handful of cars, ... Read more >
UGANDA | Friday, 4 Jul 2014 | Views [404]
Rwanda. A Phoenix. A country rose from the ashes to prosper. Twenty years ago, exactly, Hutu extremists slaughtered one million Tutsi and Tutsi sympathisers. It served as one of the worst genocides in the twentieth century. Twenty years ago Rwandese ... Read more >
UGANDA | Tuesday, 1 Jul 2014 | Views [1472]
Today my class and I visited the Nakivale Refugee Settlement as part of our field trip to learn about NGOs and refugees in the Ugandan context. The drive to the settlement lead the van down a twisted dirt road filled with bumps, much like the rest of ... Read more >
UGANDA | Sunday, 22 Jun 2014 | Views [322]
Of the 16 ISL participants at the mid-session workshop Eliza and I are the only two that “have” to go a week to a week and a half between bathing. We could ask for water more at more frequent intervals, but our family does not have that much ... Read more >
UGANDA | Thursday, 19 Jun 2014 | Views [459] | Comments [1]
Last night our other older sister Cario came home. We met her two weeks ago as well, but she only stayed for a day before she went to finish her term at school. Last night after dinner Eliza and I got our first real chance to talk to her. I cannot remember ... Read more >
UGANDA | Wednesday, 18 Jun 2014 | Views [385] | Comments [1]
I cannot sew. I made a half-hearted attempt when I was younger, but I never learned how to make my own close. I guess that is why I found myself so fascinated when I watched the tailor stitch the two halves of my dress together. Her nimble fingers pushed ... Read more >
UGANDA | Tuesday, 17 Jun 2014 | Views [355] | Comments [1]
On Friday I promised Agens I would show her the video of me Ugandan dancing on Sunday. Sunday rolled around, and as we prepared for dinner she politely demanded that I show the family the video. I brought my computer outside and placed it on the ledge ... Read more >
UGANDA | Tuesday, 17 Jun 2014 | Views [360] | Comments [1]
Over the past week Eliza and I have made a few new friends in our community. We now have two boda drivers who we know “well” and use often. When we see them we take their bodas over anyone else’s. One day when we were walking to town ... Read more >
UGANDA | Sunday, 15 Jun 2014 | Views [344] | Comments [1]
Work started in a rather blasé way. Jenna and I edited some video footage while we waited to go to the field. The Heath team was conducting a community health programme where they partnered with a local health center to do on sight testing for ... Read more >
UGANDA | Sunday, 15 Jun 2014 | Views [345] | Comments [1]
In the city stars are scarce. They shine, but they only spatter the sky. In Lyantonde the stars litter the sky. If you look away from the lights of town the stars appear to take over the black sky at night; except for last week when the moon out shown ... Read more >
UGANDA | Sunday, 15 Jun 2014 | Views [224] | Comments [1]
Whenever I go on a trip I try to bring my dad back either a hat or a jersey from one of the local teams. He loves soccer more than almost anything, and it has been a bonding point for us since I was little. Whether or not he wears what I buy him ever ... Read more >
UGANDA | Sunday, 15 Jun 2014 | Views [295] | Comments [1]
In Uganda traffic rules are more like guidelines, unless the traffic police are out. On our way to Masaka last Sunday June 8 th we took a private taxi, aka a mini-van. We learned the week before that we would be shoved in with other people, so I sat ... Read more >
UGANDA | Saturday, 7 Jun 2014 | Views [322] | Comments [1]
Saturday I got to see zebras, and hippos, and crocodiles, and antelope, and baboons, and monkeys, and awesome birds. I’m not talking about zebras in a zoo though. I mean wild zebras! Zebras that roam around the park and live free and happy! They ... Read more >
UGANDA | Friday, 6 Jun 2014 | Views [371] | Comments [1]
Fridays in Uganda are Country themed. At least my last two Fridays have had a country flair to them. On Friday May 30 th Eliza and I returned home as Agnes prepared tea. As we watched Agnes prepare the food we realized we were having grilled corn and ... Read more >
UGANDA | Thursday, 5 Jun 2014 | Views [328] | Comments [1]
This past week sent me flash backs of miserable days in grade nine when my stomach knotted itself into a small ball and refused to unwind. On Tuesday Richard drove me home from work early after, as Clair says, I “sounded awful,” as the lunch ... Read more >
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