I have become a lizard…. A few months ago, I was told by the only woman in my office “In February you will want to leave. Your heels will crack, your sky will flake, your hair will get dry and break and your lips will bleed.” She is psychic…. My lips are not bleeding thanks … Read more
Following a late return from the workshop in Kampala, I had just enough time to do hand laundry and pack for another few days at All Volunteer meetup (known as AllVol) in Kitgum at the Y.Y. Okot school for Girls, where both students and staff, families included, live. Therefore there was always a gaggle of … Read more
There’s an expression we heard over and over again in training, and it had little cultural significance then A few months at site and the the week described below brought the expression home to me in a way I could not have imagined earlier. “Are we together?” i.e. are we on the same page, are … Read more
There are reasons I’d rather drink bleach than ride a bus to Kampala and yesterday I remembered all of them. We started at 8:45 in theory. Actually, mentally I started two days before, asking staff, “Now, how are are we getting to Kampala?” Praying against hope that we would go in a vehicle other … Read more
The Mosquito Zapping proved to be a diversion from the usual night activity, but I soon learned that one has to hold down a little button after turning the thing on. Instruction reading not being my forte I was not informed of this by Jaron, the current title holder in Mosquito Zapping, until I was … Read more
Yesterday dawned cool and breezy – lovely clouds in the sky – some looking like rain. I got excited – thinking optimistically that they would accidentally spill a few drops. They were just teasers… no rain – but one can dream. As I walked into town, with hat and sunglasses – always sunglasses, I … Read more
When our group of twelve was posted to Northern Uganda, five of us in Gulu Town, we were told its NGO central. I don’t have a list of all of the non-profits here, but suffice it to say, if you threw a rock, (if you could get it out of your hand before being run … Read more