another great trip up to murchison falls national park. plenty of photos and comments over at philsgood photo a day. highlights included lions, birds, breakdowns and a new place to stay.
Entries Tagged as 'Uganda'
again! murchison one week later
May 13th, 2008 · No Comments
heading back north
May 8th, 2008 · No Comments
paige was jealous (and rightly so) that i got to see the lions, so i’m going to pick her up in pakwach and we’re going to spend a couple days in murchison. planning on camping out on the delta. i got a nifty little stove today at the gas station. it’s a four-liter propane tank […]
benefits
May 5th, 2008 · No Comments
as this weekend’s trip to murchison falls shows, there are definitely some benefits to living here in uganda. one afternoon i can be working in the garden, wondering if maybe i should go to a movie in the evening. 15 hours later i’m getting in a car for a spur-of-the-moment weekend getaway that for most […]
weekend in murchison
May 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment
paige is in arua for ten days heading a training session for her malaria project. i’m holding down the fort with the cats, and on thursday (international labour day, public holiday) tom came over to help me in the garden. he’s currently a deputy director for save the children africa but is also a big-time […]
ugandan english
April 29th, 2008 · No Comments
my favorite DJs crystal and irish were talking yesterday about the wikipedia entry for ugandan english. paige wrote some about ugandan english in this epic post. most of the wiki is pretty good, though a lot is missing. there’s only a couple editors and not many edits. but it reminded me of my favorite ugandan […]
monday updates one month later
April 28th, 2008 · No Comments
ok, time to do some housecleaning so i can start with the updates again. to summarize: paige’s parents visited and we went all over the place. paige is growing in a big way. she’s been busy at work. i’ve been busy on the computer. we are here for only five more weeks.
monday updates
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
ultimate, pregnancy, frostbite, cats. all inside!
electricity on/off
January 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment
a headline in today’s online nytimes - “power failures outrage south africa.”
this may make international news for south africa - the “europe of africa” - but it’s commonplace in uganda. load-shedding? we don’t have it for just a few hours in the afternoon, that would be luxury. no, load-shedding in uganda tends […]
in the news
January 28th, 2008 · No Comments
there’s been lots o’ news coverage (local ugandan, and local minnesotan) of what i do in uganda lately. i’ve been remiss in giving a good picture on the ab.com/blog of what it is i do actually do, so sorry ’bout that…but i’m making up for it by pointing you to these links…
“it takes two […]
Tags: Global-health · Paige · Uganda
flying ugandan
January 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments
today was a first. first time flying a domestic ugandan airline. uganda recently launched its national airline, air uganda. it got cleared just before chogm for flights in/out of nairboi and had its first commercial flight sometime close to that. i considered air uganda for our tickets to zanzibar for christmas […]