This week I saw a t-shirt sale for 1.99 per shirt. But you had to buy a thousand shirts. So I don't have to do any laundry for three years now. OORRR... I could just make a couple of these songs.
Selfish Jean
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Thanksgiving in San Diego
I went down to San Diego for Thanksgiving to visit Greg. The Bywaters and I basically spent everyday on the beach. So great
How the 2008 Detroit Lions season has affected the Natural World
Remember when the Lions were the King of Beasts. Well, the Detroit Lions have had a huge affect on the former monarch: Battle at Kruger, Battle at Kruger 2
And finally, even a single zebra can get the best of them. Zebra
And finally, even a single zebra can get the best of them. Zebra
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
This Week in Africa
Nothing too exciting this week. This is the first chance i've had to write for a while. i've been in the bush for the last few days :) Last week We started on building this school class room. It's been fun learning how to lay bricks and lay a foundation. Definitely hard work, even for a little class room.This weekend we went up north in a place called Gulu that is near the Sudan border and taught a couple of business classes. Gulu is where the story of Invisible Children happened. There are still some threats from the LRA, but it is mostly contained. Sunday we went to church at a little branch that was surprisingly big. It's been open for 4 months and looks like it is doing well. Church was only two hours... who knows maybe they'll start implementing that idea everywhere. Sunday afternoon we went to the hospital where all the kids slept so they could hide from being abducted by the LRA. I recently watched the movie and it's pretty horrible what they had to live through. It seems that the town is adjusting pretty well and thriving. Sunday night we went to this tiny village with these born again pastors and they went around healing people.... um... it was interesting... on the bus ride back it was interesting to hear all there stories around the world... i don't really know what to think about them, but they seemed really sincere....
Today we are traveling back to Lugazi and went on the bumpiest bus ride ever and i think my spinal chord has snapped. We're in the capital Kampala at the one really nice shopping center called garden city. It was the first time i really ate in the last three days, because i hated the food in gulu. It was soooo good. I finished my book called Common wealth... if any one wants to hear what all these NGOs and save the world types have to say that's a pretty good representation of what they are saying. ... it's pretty convincing hearing the author talk about population control and needed government spending on roads and such when you are on a bus ride from gulu to kampala.... he talked a lot about africa so i could take a pretty good stance on his arguments.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Okay so i probably overreacted.. It'll probably take a lot more to drown me... I mean Tom has tried to drown me and failed and I was only twelve. :)
So the weekends have so far been really really good. Those are probably the more exciting things to talk about and then I'll tell you about the stuff we are doing. This weekend we went to a place called Sipi falls which was about a four hour drive out of town. It's up near a mountain called mount Elgon which we didn't actually go on but is really high and i think the tallest mountain in Uganda. There are three sets of falls in this area and we stayed at a resort that overlooked the biggest fall. It looks a lot like Costa Rica, but I think the mountains are a little bit more dramatic. We hiked up to the other two falls and we had to go through corn and coffee and sugar fields to get there. They had a tribe that was farming on the side of this mountain. I have really cool pictures, but it takes forever to upload them, so I really don't think I am going to upload them until i get to New York. The best part was that we got to the top of one of the waterfalls and had a guide there that had equipment to repel down a long side the waterfall. So I tie myself in and then go over this 100 meter cliff and for the first 100 feet you are kicking up against the mountain side, then after that you are just basically hanging down and not touching anything except the rope. It was really really amazing. The food their was exquisite, (which is a word i would probably never use, but I am tired of using amazing and incredible)
For our volunteer stuff, today we started building a school, but the materials weren't all there so we went over to some other schools and did the first step of building these stoves that use less wood and take all the smoke out of their kitchen. Lung cancer is actually a huge problem for the third world because the cooks cook in these closed kitchens over an open fire. So these stoves help them out.
We are working with these two kids that are very disabled, they used to be normal but somehow over the last 5 years they have become completely crippled, and unable to talk or respond to anything. Last Thursday we went in and the boy, Joel was sick and was throwing up all over himself. We held him and we took the girl out in her wheelchair on a walk. Everyone stopped and stared and asked what was wrong. The mother cleans and recharges car batteries in their shack and that is probably why they are so damaged. We are working with the mother to get a different job or at least getting another room to work in. I think this family is a nominee for one of the saddest stories in the world. The grandma sits in the back and is completely deaf and dumb and just sits on a pillow on the ground all day and rocks back and forth.
Other projects we have been doing are working with high schools and teaching them some stuff like AIDS, nutrition, and other health things, working with business owners and helping them
make a profit, working with this bakery to get them all set up, working with orphanages, working with some women's groups and helping them find a good income and some other stuff that I can't remember.
So the weekends have so far been really really good. Those are probably the more exciting things to talk about and then I'll tell you about the stuff we are doing. This weekend we went to a place called Sipi falls which was about a four hour drive out of town. It's up near a mountain called mount Elgon which we didn't actually go on but is really high and i think the tallest mountain in Uganda. There are three sets of falls in this area and we stayed at a resort that overlooked the biggest fall. It looks a lot like Costa Rica, but I think the mountains are a little bit more dramatic. We hiked up to the other two falls and we had to go through corn and coffee and sugar fields to get there. They had a tribe that was farming on the side of this mountain. I have really cool pictures, but it takes forever to upload them, so I really don't think I am going to upload them until i get to New York. The best part was that we got to the top of one of the waterfalls and had a guide there that had equipment to repel down a long side the waterfall. So I tie myself in and then go over this 100 meter cliff and for the first 100 feet you are kicking up against the mountain side, then after that you are just basically hanging down and not touching anything except the rope. It was really really amazing. The food their was exquisite, (which is a word i would probably never use, but I am tired of using amazing and incredible)
For our volunteer stuff, today we started building a school, but the materials weren't all there so we went over to some other schools and did the first step of building these stoves that use less wood and take all the smoke out of their kitchen. Lung cancer is actually a huge problem for the third world because the cooks cook in these closed kitchens over an open fire. So these stoves help them out.
We are working with these two kids that are very disabled, they used to be normal but somehow over the last 5 years they have become completely crippled, and unable to talk or respond to anything. Last Thursday we went in and the boy, Joel was sick and was throwing up all over himself. We held him and we took the girl out in her wheelchair on a walk. Everyone stopped and stared and asked what was wrong. The mother cleans and recharges car batteries in their shack and that is probably why they are so damaged. We are working with the mother to get a different job or at least getting another room to work in. I think this family is a nominee for one of the saddest stories in the world. The grandma sits in the back and is completely deaf and dumb and just sits on a pillow on the ground all day and rocks back and forth.
Other projects we have been doing are working with high schools and teaching them some stuff like AIDS, nutrition, and other health things, working with business owners and helping them
make a profit, working with this bakery to get them all set up, working with orphanages, working with some women's groups and helping them find a good income and some other stuff that I can't remember.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
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