So a long time ago I said I’d make another blog with
pictures. I know that other HNGR blogs have included more pictures, and that
mine is lacking. I have been wanting to for a while, but slow internet speeds
have prevented me. Hopefully, this will partially make up. I feel bad that I am
forced to separate the pictures from the previous posts – i.e. some of these
pictures are months old. I was just unable to post them. Anyways, enjoy!
The first three are from Dr Lovett’s faculty visit. One day
we went to a nearby rhino sanctuary where several wild rhinos live. We were
pretty close to the rhinos, within about 15 feet. This was until one of males
told us to back up a little. The first gives a sense of proximity as I am in
the picture, although it was taken before we got a little closer. I went a few
feet in front of the tree.
In this last one, Dr. Lovett and I are with Kenneth – the
administrator at the school and the person with whom I stay – to the left, and
the physics/computers teacher to the right. Behind us is the school.
The next picture comes from Sheema in western Uganda. There
I visited a friend’s home named Stephen – on the left. The older woman was his
mother and the two children his siblings, and the one on the right his cousin
at her mother’s home, the main hut for which is behind us. When looking at my
appearances, it should be noted that he and I had just walked 4-5 miles to get
to the house (from his home with his father’s family), and it had just stopped
raining when we took it.
This next two are from a different part of Sheema. In the
first we were talking to church, and in the second I was giving a talk at the
church (Stephen was translating). It was hard to capture the hills of the area,
but there were rather pretty. I will admit, at times I wish I was in such a
hilly place. Where I am is too flat, and for the record, same with Chicago.
All right, so one day the senior fives (the equivalent to
twelfth grade) decided to do a photo shoot. I managed to get myself in some of
the pictures myself. The first one was of everyone (not the whole class but all
those who showed up to the photo shoot, about half the class). Most of these
students are the ones I teach math to. For the second one, I have no idea
whether I looked good in the sunglasses, but I put them one to see whether it
worked, and once I did, the students wouldn’t let me take them off. Also in the
background of the second (on the right), one can see the house where I stay.
The next four are from AYLF (African Youth Leadership Forum)
in Kampala, which met from the 6th to 8th of October in
Kampala. In the first two I am with two other university students. The first is
from the DRC (specifically UCBC, for those who know that school), and the
second is a student in Burundi. The next two were taken from a series of skits
we were supposed to perform one night featuring different Ugandan ethnic
groups. The first is a dance of the Acholi in northern Uganda. My friend, a
student at CLA where I teach, in the last person in the line. In the second, I
am doing a Karomajong dance (from eastern Uganda). The dance effectively
involved jumping up and down many times, from which I am in mid-air. I was the
only male in the group willing to do it, so I wound up doing it.
The last one is of my birthday party on the 9th
of October – coincidentally also Uganda’s 50th anniversary from
Independence. This was taken in the sitting room (living room in U.S. English)
of our house.
When I blew all the candles out in one breath (okay fine one
and a half), everyone looked at me confused. Evidently, I was supposed to blow
them out one at a time, so they relit the cake to have me do it again. This was
harder to do than one might initially think: it’s hard to blow out one but not
blow out others nearby.
The last two are the best photos of the school I've seen. One of the students borrowed the camera and took it, and he did a rather good job. The lighting was perfect.
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