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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Uganda'
electricity on/off
January 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment
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 […]
rita the land cruiser (filling in the blanks)
January 14th, 2008 · No Comments
just because i didn’t post for six+ months doesn’t mean nothing was going on. it was actually a pretty eventful (in a good way) year. i’ll see if i can work on the backlog and fill in some of the blanks. here’s a car story from sep/oct. check the photos here after you read the […]
new news out of africa
January 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment
if you’ve been reading the news coming out of east africa these days, you’d think the region was in chaos. since early december: ebola outbreak in uganda (also outbreaks of cholera, plague, and yellow fever), usaid worker killed in sudan, riots in kenya. but, the important thing to remember is that only the […]
Tags: Global-health · Paige · Uganda
mn golf course chili
January 6th, 2008 · No Comments
if you know me, you know i’m not much of a cook and i’m super happy i married a guy who is. i made chili for dinner last night, though, and it was good. i was proud.
i searched allrecipes.com for a chili recipe forgetting that there are whole cooking contests dedicated to chili, so i […]
the aviary that is our yard
January 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
this morning i decided to see how many birds i could ID in our yard today. i came up with 23. + one raptor that i couldn’t figure out. 19 before i left for the coffee shop with the morning papers. i’d say that’s pretty typical - the number of birds i saw, that is. […]
50% extra snafu
October 23rd, 2007 · No Comments
the uganda telecommunications system is hamstrung, clogged, ineffectual (should i go on?) since the three dominant cellphone companies – mtn, celtel, uganda telecom – started their 50% extra airtime campaigns simultaneously two months ago. the headache has caused enough national fervor that the uganda communications commission is intervening. today’s front-page headlines from the […]
tropical fish by doreen baingana
October 21st, 2007 · 5 Comments
i spend roughly 75% of my time in uganda in kampala. kampala is the environment and culture i know best in uganda, so tropical fish: tales from entebbe, a novel set mostly in kampala and some in entebbe and los angeles (i still don’t get why the sub-title is : tales from entebbe), gives […]
Tags: Paige · Reviews · Uganda
ssese islands - labor day
September 5th, 2007 · No Comments
labor day weekend, the quintessential end-of-summer last hurrah at the lake…normally fox lake (andersons) or lake superior (bowens), but this year lake victoria (anderson bowens). reeling from a week of nastily coinciding work and personal issues, i desperately needed a getaway just me and phil. with just 2+ days and not much money, […]