tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33555218788633677852024-03-19T03:22:56.037-07:00Watkinson in UgandaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger119125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355521878863367785.post-90843912499799418972018-07-01T03:41:00.002-07:002018-07-01T03:41:29.797-07:00Homeward Bound<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">On our way home after 2 magical weeks in Uganda and Rwanda!! Many thanks to all the friends who made this trip possible: Atukwase Baker Tony Byarugaba Grace Mugisha Iyakaremye Feredinanati Twagirumugabe Dominic Nkusi Gerald Habumuremyi Godfrey, our drivers Paul and Adolf, and the many friends we have at the Golden Monkey Guesthouse, God is Able Nursery School, Katarara Primary School, Clare Nsenga Clinic, Pumba Cottages and all of Kisoro!!</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355521878863367785.post-55684352009860212562018-06-26T03:23:00.001-07:002018-06-26T03:23:14.590-07:00Queen Elizabeth Park Adventures!<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;">Head over to my Twitter account </span><a href="http://www.twitter.com/solarium1101" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; color: #33aaff; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84000015258789px; text-decoration: none;">www.Twitter.com/solarium1101</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;"> for updates throughout our trip to Queen Elizabeth National Park over the next 3 days!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355521878863367785.post-45677528412243617642018-06-25T09:21:00.003-07:002018-06-25T09:21:46.072-07:00A Day on Mt Gahinga<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;">Head over to my Twitter account </span><a href="http://www.twitter.com/solarium1101" style="background-color: white; color: #33aaff; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84000015258789px; text-decoration: none;">www.Twitter.com/solarium1101</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;"> for our day on the slopes of Mt Gahinga with the Mgahinga Community Development Organisation! 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Bad WiFi has limited my photo uploading ability!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355521878863367785.post-3000051348960419212018-06-17T09:09:00.001-07:002018-06-17T09:09:20.034-07:00Finally in Kisoro...aka Home!With slow WiFi and dinner on the way, we just wanted everyone to know that we are safely in Uganda reconnecting with old friends...and for others...making new ones!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355521878863367785.post-28952948440172659082018-06-16T11:12:00.000-07:002018-06-16T11:12:01.088-07:00Kigali: Friends, Forgiveness and Hope<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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Following the Memorial, we headed to Rev. Dominc's nursery school where we met the teachers and his family. Since it is Saturday, only a few children came by but those that did were soon enthralled by us...and our phones. Their smiling faces were the perfect balance for the morning and showed us the bright future. After we headed out for a much needed and very late lunch of some of the best grilled food and countless waters and sodas! Tomorrow- up early and head 3 hours-ish northeast to Uganda, the Golden Monkey Guesthouse and our many friends!</div>
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Visits of condolence is all we get from them.<br />They squat at the Holocaust Memorial,<br />They put on grave faces at the Wailing Wall<br />And they laugh behind heavy curtains<br />In their hotels.<br />They have their pictures taken<br />Together with our famous dead<br />At Rachel's Tomb and Herzl's Tomb<br />And on Ammunition Hill.<br />They weep over our sweet boys<br />And lust after our tough girls<br />And hang up their underwear<br />To dry quickly<br />In cool, blue bathrooms.<br /><br /><br />Once I sat on the steps by agate at David's Tower,<br />I placed my two heavy baskets at my side. A group of tourists<br />was standing around their guide and I became their target marker. "You see<br />that man with the baskets? Just right of his head there's an arch<br />from the Roman period. Just right of his head." "But he's moving, he's moving!"<br />I said to myself: redemption will come only if their guide tells them,<br />"You see that arch from the Roman period? It's not important: but next to it,<br />left and down a bit, there sits a man who's bought fruit and vegetables for his family."</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355521878863367785.post-86292146313172983782018-06-15T15:05:00.002-07:002018-06-16T11:15:54.680-07:00Back Where We Started On our first night, the guesthouse didn’t expect us for dinner and sent the chef home. We ended up driving through the evening bustle that is Kigali on our way to a restaurant. When we arrived, we realized that it was the same restaurant, Heaven, that we had seen featured in the Travel Channel show, Breaking Borders, a few weeks ago. The show follows a journalist and a chef who travel the world bringing people together from conflict zones. In the Rwanda episode, they brought together people from all sides of the genocide. For us, we sat eating amazing African food getting fuel for our journey to the Genocide Memorial the next day. Day one and things are already new and familiar.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355521878863367785.post-55081676131312367662018-06-15T10:17:00.000-07:002018-06-15T10:17:35.155-07:00Landed in Rwanda!After a few long but uneventful flights we finally arrived in Kigali, Rwanda! Some of us have showered. And some are playing cards! Tomorrow is meeting with a few ministers to hear about their experiences during the genocide and then we will go to the Kigali Genocide Memorial. Sunday it is off to Uganda!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355521878863367785.post-2791753339843214732018-06-13T19:24:00.001-07:002018-06-13T19:24:14.667-07:006 Hours to Go! <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>12 pieces of luggage are packed</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"> with women's and children's shoes, donated wedding dresses (for the Women's Centers plan to rent them), books, pens, pencils, frisbees and much more! In less than 24 hours the 9 student travelers and 3 chaperones will head first to Rwanda for 2 day and then Uganda where we will meet with locals to learn about the culture, issues and initiatives and volunteer at Katarara Primary School and the God Is Able Nursery School. Towards the end of our trip, we will head out of the mountains of southwest Uganda and slightly north to Queen Elizabeth National Park to experience the wildlife Uganda has to offer: game drive (aka safari), chimp trekking through the rainforest and a river cruise along the Kazinga Channel.</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355521878863367785.post-55715784612989203072018-05-10T05:46:00.001-07:002018-05-10T05:51:57.593-07:004 Weeks to Uganda and We're Taking Donations!<b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #073763;">Uganda Service Trip Donations:</span></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">The Uganda travelers are collecting donations of the following items to take to Uganda during their service trip this June: women's & children's shoes** and used wedding dresses. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">The Kyibumba Women's Center we work with has a business plan to rent the wedding dresses out and use the money to pay school fees for children unable to attend the local nursery school. Monetary donations are also appreciated to support their service work. </span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355521878863367785.post-47445056576311167232017-11-16T19:42:00.000-08:002017-11-16T19:42:21.746-08:00Uganda 2018 Trip Applications Are Being AcceptedWatkinson returns to Uganda in June for our third student trip! We will continue to work with our partners Katarara Primary School, Kyibumba Women's Center, God Is Able Nursery School and Mgahinga Community Development Organisation. We will also be spending a few days in Rwanda visiting the Kigali Genocide Memorial.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355521878863367785.post-76210346154690937292017-06-17T11:54:00.001-07:002017-06-17T12:05:32.968-07:00ArrivalSafely arrived in Kisoro after a struggle to get out of the Nairobi Airport (long story). With Tony our trusted guide and old friend (picture below) we made it from Kigali, Rwanda to Uganda. Plans are set to head out to Grace's (pictured too) nursery school and women's center. Add to that all the supplies of pens, pencils and weather station equipment I'm delivering to Katarara Primary School this week it looks to be a great time with old friends!<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZW9zrUAysoYdHWCrNzT4C4iYY9VkDgurnZL3mSn-8_qaUNnKj2qxKjpFZBFdtStdVakS4Z_orCdY4OOZjh1wqwQN-wrj7qDBVNs51qNg51YHTzJcKTuJSDelvkACRyxqD0CH_7iCt5zE/s640/blogger-image-168053275.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZW9zrUAysoYdHWCrNzT4C4iYY9VkDgurnZL3mSn-8_qaUNnKj2qxKjpFZBFdtStdVakS4Z_orCdY4OOZjh1wqwQN-wrj7qDBVNs51qNg51YHTzJcKTuJSDelvkACRyxqD0CH_7iCt5zE/s640/blogger-image-168053275.jpg"></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355521878863367785.post-73505730267218473942017-05-13T08:37:00.003-07:002017-05-13T09:02:58.530-07:00Dr. OB Returns in June!Next month, I will be returning to Uganda to reconnect with our partner schools and explore some options for next year's student service learning trip. It will be great to visit the teachers and students at Katarara Primary School and Mgahinga Community Development Organisation's primary school to continue strengthening the relationship between <a href="https://www.watkinson.org/page" target="_blank">Watkinson</a> and these schools. I will also be traveling to the Kisoro region where we work via Kigali, Rwanda and visiting the <a href="http://www.kgm.rw/" target="_blank">Genocide Memorial</a> and the <a href="https://gorillafund.org/what-we-do/where-we-work/rwanda/" target="_blank">Karisoke Research Center</a> that carries on the work started by Dian Fossey to protect the mountain gorillas that live in Rwanda, Congo and Uganda. Traveling through Rwanda would reduce the time it takes to travel to Kisoro and would allow the students to experience these important places.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grace leading the children in dance and song!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The nursery school provides affordable education to the youngest children in the community.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside one of the three classrooms at the nursery school.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trying on new shoes we brought last year.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Watkinson School's 2016 Service Team at the nursery school.</td></tr>
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We are back at Watkinson! It is hard to believe just a few months ago, we were in Uganda and teaching at Katarara Primary School. Now we begin the next phase of our work: fundraising. </div>
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Katarara Primary School is a lead school in their district with amazing teachers and hardworking students. Katarara Primary's computer program has flourished since the donation of laptop computers from UCONN Medical School and Watkinson two years ago. Unfortunately, each day the laptops have to be set up, used and put away because the only free room with electricity is the small faculty room.</div>
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Our goal is to raise the $6,000 needed to complete an unused building, move one grade into it and use the newly freed room as a permanent computer lab for the students. Through the sale of goods we bought in Uganda, a soon to be launched crowdfunding campaign and other fundraisers, we hope to help Katarara Primary continue to give their students the best education possible.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unfinished building (for now) that will become new classrooms.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The current space for computer classes is the small faculty room.</td></tr>
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Today we saw a rolling hotel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was huge 18 wheel truck, modified for
tourists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The front was like a coach
bus, and the back was a three or four decker dormitory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It held about 20 German tourists. The driver
looked like Dog the Bounty Hunter. They sleep, eat and travel on the bus from
one location to the next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I have never experienced this sort of industrial tourism.
Our friend and driver Hussein says that most Americans are interested in 5 star
accommodations in Africa—big resorts that cost hundreds of dollars per
night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We stay in backpacker hostels
that cost $7 per night or so, serve more or less local food, and are proudly no
frills. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’d bet that the advantage of industrial tourism is that it
is predicable, comfortable (in the mental sense), and familiar for
tourists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can have German food,
German beer, German language guides, etc. <o:p></o:p></div>
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At the same time, one of the best elements of being cheap is
that you meet and interact with lots of Africans. You work with them, hang out
in the lobby together, go to local markets, and really try to absorb some of
the wisdom that Africa can teach you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
for the patrons of das rollende Hotel, or the Paraa lodge, or anywhere that has
a pool or a golf course, here is some of that wisdom: <o:p></o:p></div>
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1. Relax. It’s OK. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This goes for anything from the time you are eating dinner
to the fact that you’ve been to the toilet 14 times today.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2. Things that are serious are not that serious. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Today Paul accused Hussein of being unprofessional because
he (I won’t say, but it was sort of like the time he showed some biscuits to a
Baboon on the road, and got it to leap up on the hood and try to grab them
through the windshield. ) If a surgeon took a selfie while holding your
pancreas, that would be unprofessional. Accusations of unprofessional behavior
are very serious. Paul was serious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
he also laughed about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think
the members of the AMA would also find the pancreas selfie amusing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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3. The same thing can be good and bad at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mining limestone for concrete with a huge
jackhammer directly underneath a nice tourist resort is very bad. It is
annoying and loud and obnoxious. And also cement is good, necessary, and expensive.
It’s good and bad. <o:p></o:p></div>
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4. Wing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Want a
house? Then find some stuff and start building. Cut small trees in the woods,
and carry 12 ft long logs home on the back of your bicycle, on a road that is
approximately 8 ft wide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll get
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also if you need a coffin, it
fits conveniently on the back of a motorcycle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Holding an election? Don’t bother consulting the history of the world in
planning it you, just do what you think will work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s the recipe for vegetable stew? What
have you got?<o:p></o:p></div>
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5. Work between 0 and 18 hours a day. Make work a social
thing. Spend more time chatting with folks at the shop next door than stocking
or selling things. Leave the shop unattended for a while. Treat each sale as if
you have never sold anything in your life, and don’t understand how money
works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If your truck breaks down, park
in the middle of the road, sleep underneath, use burning logs as flares, and
roast some corn while you wait for assistance.<o:p></o:p></div>
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6. Have long talks with people you have never met. How are you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, to be honest, my kids are driving me
crazy. Oh yeah, try traveling in a foreign country with 8 teenagers?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Continue for 20 minutes or so.<o:p></o:p></div>
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7. Never multitask. If you are boiling potatoes, just sit
there and watch them. Start cooking 20 minutes after dinner guests arrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if you’re, say baking bread—it’s OK if
you don’t eat till 10 pm. See number 1. <o:p></o:p></div>
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8. Make lemonade. Were you evicted from your forest home?
Nearly executed by the Interhamwe? Enslaved as a child soldier? That’s the
past, forget it, move on. <o:p></o:p></div>
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9. Just do stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jump in 100% even if you have no idea how to do what you are
doing—you’ll figure it out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many
people in Uganda start schools, or development organizations, or guesthouses,
or businesses on what looks like a whim. That’s fine. Maybe it will work out,
maybe not. <o:p></o:p></div>
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10. Just trust people. It’s OK to hand a baby to a stranger
through a car window like it was 40 lbs of bananas, and walk away. It’s OK to
sleep at someone’s house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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11. You don’t need insurance, documentation, warrantees, a
car mechanic, zoning laws, restaurant inspectors, hand sanitizer, anything in a
bathroom besides a hole, electricity (except for your mobile phone), child
seats, seat belts, welding masks, shoes, walls, deodorant, hot water, forks
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12. You should always have: two spare tires, a bike pump, a
grill made from a car wheel, 40 lbs of bananas, a machete (even if you are 3
yrs old), a stick for whacking cows, goats or children, 50 liters of diesel, something
to sell or hand through a car window, a pen, a piece of cloth for carrying a
baby, a bottle opener, three pineapples and a bicycle.<o:p></o:p></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355521878863367785.post-77555112091405446912016-07-02T08:28:00.001-07:002016-07-02T08:28:30.327-07:00Headed Home!<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVx4mX9WJ3gMSjLQAYVCanRBQnhvNmrzIZFOVEDoxOxJwpjv5QwS0fp_GJGMUFP1yBx9u13mbqNlR1_awhy_GtRsH-cD5AcBlHdxIXD2gH3hOdOtnheGFyAbRWZepWOrVEfbLyK8F9iMU/s640/blogger-image--1142455360.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVx4mX9WJ3gMSjLQAYVCanRBQnhvNmrzIZFOVEDoxOxJwpjv5QwS0fp_GJGMUFP1yBx9u13mbqNlR1_awhy_GtRsH-cD5AcBlHdxIXD2gH3hOdOtnheGFyAbRWZepWOrVEfbLyK8F9iMU/s640/blogger-image--1142455360.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia1fzFoozw_YVZGhyphenhyphen2-09sY0kJZaV8jpiui3oMsbkBATPFfx-3xm8SLrB-mAyKDH5IeQmfWw40e_MVlBROixHzVxiXt-qGA235tq2Ww6_4P3yQ9LAcGTx6-D47JkGaOO5kp29QWup89mM/s640/blogger-image-1399370292.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia1fzFoozw_YVZGhyphenhyphen2-09sY0kJZaV8jpiui3oMsbkBATPFfx-3xm8SLrB-mAyKDH5IeQmfWw40e_MVlBROixHzVxiXt-qGA235tq2Ww6_4P3yQ9LAcGTx6-D47JkGaOO5kp29QWup89mM/s640/blogger-image-1399370292.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgowLKT4gXrrCutbg43UXQg0fxolL-afsp2MhuemBXp9MMEDybhgC45UFWx5UXRa0FLiUrXOx-ZU-QOqHg0G-ZnUYk2HZC7ND-as3r5mn8yn1u72zXm70wrNSEuUzlIzeRJRRm308B0wKE/s640/blogger-image--1523056865.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgowLKT4gXrrCutbg43UXQg0fxolL-afsp2MhuemBXp9MMEDybhgC45UFWx5UXRa0FLiUrXOx-ZU-QOqHg0G-ZnUYk2HZC7ND-as3r5mn8yn1u72zXm70wrNSEuUzlIzeRJRRm308B0wKE/s640/blogger-image--1523056865.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmmGFpz0xMqxH9aNjM72DiRTGNy91b-ZejxqYrkDfOTSt8h2jL8Hs0OuC55jHQyRy7pRreinh9jh5vOWQ6AweKnlzi9oCnyRfZK6_oFMq1ftflnIaCuRDaeZGuxfmhq0cThj1b1ERJSrc/s640/blogger-image--727115049.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmmGFpz0xMqxH9aNjM72DiRTGNy91b-ZejxqYrkDfOTSt8h2jL8Hs0OuC55jHQyRy7pRreinh9jh5vOWQ6AweKnlzi9oCnyRfZK6_oFMq1ftflnIaCuRDaeZGuxfmhq0cThj1b1ERJSrc/s640/blogger-image--727115049.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>After a game drive in Queen Elizabeth Park (more pics to come) and a last night at the Pumba Cottages we have started our long journey home! 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Hello Queen Elizabeth Park<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Missing Golden Monkey Guest House but the Pumba Cottages are great. Chimp trekked this morning and hiked past tea plantations. Cruised the Kizanga Channel this afternoon. Game drive tomorrow!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbDUULwdFdcWzxA6m-QutHSLkfmIEER3yScQTwFD9oSUrNsa4pwpnnNGMs4XzX77K-YJ073c2pXG2YP6OyXjBcKGsCEwDquRnloVHi4eerSXrM_DhzZTjnb7DAwNJZg0Is_RdoCeKuhxA/s640/blogger-image--1947987770.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbDUULwdFdcWzxA6m-QutHSLkfmIEER3yScQTwFD9oSUrNsa4pwpnnNGMs4XzX77K-YJ073c2pXG2YP6OyXjBcKGsCEwDquRnloVHi4eerSXrM_DhzZTjnb7DAwNJZg0Is_RdoCeKuhxA/s640/blogger-image--1947987770.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-iG3sGVxKZHnhUs9Iu1bIA5EZGjNQVTjH3_fCdAjmJOGDXJux3BaaSaJALyWP7duSIFb3BgS51iMljeygvhAGFANIGw7khGcy98RIijlVgYV-6c9RrmWkvouXtU22vL9xWmDVHhcAiK0/s640/blogger-image--1828009730.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-iG3sGVxKZHnhUs9Iu1bIA5EZGjNQVTjH3_fCdAjmJOGDXJux3BaaSaJALyWP7duSIFb3BgS51iMljeygvhAGFANIGw7khGcy98RIijlVgYV-6c9RrmWkvouXtU22vL9xWmDVHhcAiK0/s640/blogger-image--1828009730.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5vMNEuBtWTyKlzU89qMJDpG-CcGELn8Mau5zwsWH5yyzfJrzwosVMeCJU76GrdSDSQOl4BfVDgBxUDJ2415NBneM_xiNnVZhGUY7aad06zhcIOYeu4nPCFrBXKlx1lRqmiNJ5C2KenJA/s640/blogger-image--178095428.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5vMNEuBtWTyKlzU89qMJDpG-CcGELn8Mau5zwsWH5yyzfJrzwosVMeCJU76GrdSDSQOl4BfVDgBxUDJ2415NBneM_xiNnVZhGUY7aad06zhcIOYeu4nPCFrBXKlx1lRqmiNJ5C2KenJA/s640/blogger-image--178095428.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuvKBxXJxpkmxJUvG0DaDGJH8Q7NIqAJS0htrL6YR5GT6eyqszV9_P_nfWLbhJ6i_tocQP224nZnI-NgKN-8IYBTp6izs_iE61KpT2hnooWkRzbk7RhEwQwOOQMZg6h1z4ofU9E1KqCCE/s640/blogger-image--1655010450.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuvKBxXJxpkmxJUvG0DaDGJH8Q7NIqAJS0htrL6YR5GT6eyqszV9_P_nfWLbhJ6i_tocQP224nZnI-NgKN-8IYBTp6izs_iE61KpT2hnooWkRzbk7RhEwQwOOQMZg6h1z4ofU9E1KqCCE/s640/blogger-image--1655010450.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimYHDPnkXmbHZPok5Qz1xpLVI2WQ2_-qcdU9glIEkbzNPz0WHSK_W-KTFi4CTgHg2YS4u6Qz1H3-kOrlt0zs2dW6NA-a6G7l1kAx4p4Jk7C3OOAWHoCuLr66tJDGM9H5Lf3zDBisY6E-4/s640/blogger-image-1719934563.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimYHDPnkXmbHZPok5Qz1xpLVI2WQ2_-qcdU9glIEkbzNPz0WHSK_W-KTFi4CTgHg2YS4u6Qz1H3-kOrlt0zs2dW6NA-a6G7l1kAx4p4Jk7C3OOAWHoCuLr66tJDGM9H5Lf3zDBisY6E-4/s640/blogger-image-1719934563.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilv_vDvFxtbuzB_MdLDMk9TceJeGlREgKKMPjal7hst7YsjYTA5I_6d122FwPjxfgeO-EH-nmApI9FYrykxR3fdnAKfl7whMMrIgP_di1Sh82mVaVQFrnk2TyQQGp8bVEBCBoeZyfHXwk/s640/blogger-image--1203685482.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilv_vDvFxtbuzB_MdLDMk9TceJeGlREgKKMPjal7hst7YsjYTA5I_6d122FwPjxfgeO-EH-nmApI9FYrykxR3fdnAKfl7whMMrIgP_di1Sh82mVaVQFrnk2TyQQGp8bVEBCBoeZyfHXwk/s640/blogger-image--1203685482.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><br></div><br></div><br></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355521878863367785.post-38254388940959316002016-06-28T13:00:00.003-07:002016-06-28T13:00:39.121-07:00Batwa encounters<div class="MsoNormal">
A couple of days ago, as a matter of chance, I met the
“first Mutwa to be educated”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mutwa is
the singular of Batwa—the Twa people of Central Africa, also known as pygmies. The
Twa live in Uganda, Burundi, Congo and Rwanda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His name is Gad, and he graduated recently from Kabale University. His
parents like in the Echoyu forest near Kisoro—a forest but not a national park.
Most Batwa were evicted from their nomadic forest-dwelling when the Bwindi and
Mgahinga parks were created in the 90’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Today they are among the worst off in Uganda, a despised landless
minority, illiterate, reduced to begging and living in squalor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Last year, a wandering group of tipsy Batwa musicians
appeared on the road in front of the Golden Monkey playing broken guitars and
various other improvised instruments. One had a large bamboo didgeridoo, which
I think was the “molimo” described by Colin Turnbull in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Forest People. </i>They showed up after one of their group, his
pockets full of avocados he had found on the ground, saw us and tried to beg
for a few shillings. The dogs at Golden Monkey went berserk. They hate
Batwa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The music and dancing was not at
all bad, however. A Ugandan standing next to me pointed to the dancer, who was
shorter than the rest, no more than four feet tall. “I think that is one of the
genuine pygmies” he said<o:p></o:p></div>
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This year, while visiting the wonderful Mgahinga Community
Development Organization, we went for a short hike (of 3 hours) to visit a
Batwa settlement. We walked through farms and fields, inhabited by farmers and
animal herders. On one occasion, Festo, our host, tried to defuse a fight
between a boy herding cows and the owners of the wheat they were feasting
on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deep in these fields was a camp pf
three or four tiny huts, mostly round, made of bamboo and eucalyptus branches
with the leaves still on. The roofs were tarps with wheat stalks thatched on
top. About 15 women, teenage boys and children huddled close together while we
spoke with them, mostly through Festo and the matriarch of the clan, Jen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are some Batwa who are instantly
recognizable as a different ethnicity than others in Southwest Uganda. Others
look much like the other groups you meet here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some were short, but not tiny. Others not so much. They spoke the same
Rufambila (Kinyarwanda) as everyone else around these parts, though with an
accent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The people of the region
consider the BaTwa to be an ancient, more primitive race of people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another view is that the pygmies are a class
in African societies—they played a role in hunting and gathering of wild foods
for the farmers who essentially own them as slaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The truth is probably somewhere in the
middle.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A farmer had allowed them to camp here, partly in exchange
for labor in his wheat and potato fields—they are share-croppers, basically. Festo
said that they survive in part by finding leftover potatoes after the harvest.
A woman was weaving a basket of grass and the plastic fibers from a yellow seed
bag. It was beautiful and well made, and the girls in our group took turns working
on it. We asked a few questions, and got meaningful answers, sometimes with the
assent of the whole group. “Where are the men?” I asked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Festo explained that some had died. One was
in prison for killing a member of another clan in a dispute between Batwa
families.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They sang and danced for us, apparently enjoying themselves
in doing so, accompanied by drumming on a Gerry-can. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We bought some baskets and took photos of the
women who had made them, laboriously, by hand. One took three weeks to make,
and sold for about $4. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There are people who exploit these people, and people who
want to help them. It’s hard to say what they need, though. Do they need food
or land? Work or education? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do they need
a forest to return to? They have essentially nothing, so anything is a start, I
suppose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gad is an example of the hope
for his people—a proud Mutwa man who has proven that his people can succeed by
the standards of the world he now occupies, who is bent on helping his people survive
and integrate into society. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like
Frederick Douglass or Phyllis Wheatley, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he has done what many here think impossible.<o:p></o:p></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355521878863367785.post-74262091958890174802016-06-28T06:22:00.002-07:002016-06-28T06:22:36.932-07:00I am happy to greet you and welcome you and hope you will sleep at my home.<div class="MsoNormal">
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In case you decide to come to Uganda, which you absolutely
should and probably will, here are some things to expect.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You will get into pretty serious conversations with people that
result in invitations to sleep at their house.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have met at least three people this week who are involved
in some sort of community development project. Ugandans are out to save the
world, and given the incredible energy they have, they’ll likely succeed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it is the dozens of various types of
bananas everyone eats. <o:p></o:p></div>
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One Ugandan I met explained his banana-fueled project to
educate the marginalized Batwa minority. Some still eke out a furtive existence
in the forest, others are relegated to sharecropping for land owners, others
are simply beggars in the towns. The common denominator is that almost none of
their children go to school, learn to read, or have many skills in the modern
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This particular fellow I met had
a sort of religious epiphany up on Mt. Muhabura, which led him to decide to
build a school for the Batwa. I think he is also interested in saving their
souls through religious conversion, but I did not ask much about that. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This fellow and I exchanged numbers and email addresses, and
he tried to get me to come see his school. I did not have a huge amount of
confidence in him, and wanted to ask around a bit, and do some investigation
before exposing students to an un-explored experience, but it was hard to shake
him He has texted me at least 4 times, called me, and suggested that I visit
his school, and then come sleep at his house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That last part sort of caught me off guard. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Anyway, I have been invited to sleep at other people’s
houses since then, so apparently this is not uncommon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I always decline, because I think that this
is a kind of overboard hospitality probably really taxes the very kind people
here, and because it inevitably leads to some commitment that I may not want to
make.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Another question I have had to field four or more times is
something along the lines of “do you have these crops in your country?” or
“what crops do you grow?” or “do people dig in the USA?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I reassure my interlocutor that we do indeed
dig, though much of our farming is done by machinery. “Tractors?” he will say,
excitedly. “Yes, tractors.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I get the
sense that John Deere would go over favorably in Uganda.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I also explain the seasons as best I can. In June it is very
much like here. 20 degrees (Celsius), sunny, but it sometimes rains and
sometimes doesn’t. It is hot in July and August 35 degrees or more. In October
it is again like this, except the leaves on the trees change to yellow, red and
orange. Then from December to March it can be below 0, and sometimes we have up
to a meter of snow. “How do the plants live?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Good question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later I thought of
making analogy with the lungfish—when its river or pond dries up, it sleeps in
the mud until it rains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best I could
do is to say that some die, and need to be replanted—tomatoes, for example.
Others are dormant all winter, like apple trees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They bloom in April, grow fruit in the long
days of summer, and then the apples ripen very sweet as the weather gets cold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I explain that in my region we grow corn, but
not sorghum, apples but not oranges, avacados, mangoes, etc. And that there are
cattle, mostly for milk cheese and butter, but few goats.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One advantage I have is that I have experienced Spring,
before. And it seems to be always Spring or early Summer here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the people of this country have never
experienced Winter, so explaining it is like trying to explain “Red” to someone
who was born blind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A common reaction to
the whole idea of winter, is “So you store up your food for this time?” How do
I explain that most of my food comes, via a supermarket, from California or
Mexico or Florida?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“People used to
preserve vegetables and fruit for winter, and smoke meat and fish, but now we
transport a lot of food from one place to another—so in the cold season, we buy
our food from the warm places”<o:p></o:p></div>
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These explanations are met with skepticism. I think that the
burning questions are “why would someone live in such a place? Why buy food,
when you can grow it? These are valid questions, and gazing at the verdant
hills and towering mountains, I wonder what sort of answer I could give.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yesterday we played a soccer game between Mgahinga Primary
School teachers, students and assorted Americans, vs another school who had
green jerseys with the name of a Norwegian or possibly Danish company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of their students had cleats with no
laces. Two of ours shared a pair of cleats and a pair of skateboard shoes—i.e,
each wore one cleat. Some went barefoot, others preferred to remove one shoe to
kick out of the goalie box or from the corner. One teacher wore loafers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The field was similar to any soccer pitch, in that it had
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individual judgment, and the goals were two pairs of stones, convenient because
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There were a number of large rocks strewn throughout the
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chairs. Sometimes you’d kick, and miss completely. Sometimes the ball would
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Our goal was near the path/road, and always full of 3 to 5
year old children, sitting with their backs to the field. There were often
small babies sitting alone in the middle of the field, thoughtfully fondling
sticks or pebbles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On one occasion, the
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Then there were the sheep and goats. A teenager with a stick
had directed his goats and sheep to the spot to graze, so they foraged freely,
sometimes jumping out of the way of a ball. I fantasized about hurtling over
one, driving to the goal. Another teenage boy showed up with some cows, and
seemed annoyed that people were using this soccer field, which he wished to use
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There was a sort of dirt path that traversed the field
diagonally, which I did not really notice till a Boda Boda (motorcycle taxi) with
a woman in a spangled head-cloth on back, raced along it in the middle of a
vigorous offensive by the green team, the ball narrowly missing the passenger’s
head. The Boda is ubiquitous. It is not at all unusual to see them in the
National Parks, buzzing past elephants on the way to deliver someone to work. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It was fun to play soccer, at which I do not excel. Until,
that is, I tried to kick the ball and fell short, my toe digging into the
uneven turf, my knee feeling like a hot poker was driven into it. I fell to the
ground, hugging my knee. For a moment or two I wondered if I had finally torn
the last bit of something important. The game continued, and the thought of the
merciless pounding my skull would take from a ball at any moment got me
moving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stood up shakily and limped to
join the crowd of behind the goal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Ni
meza” I said. “I’m OK”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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