Monthly Archive: July 2018

I am in the middle of my last week in Arua, and it’s a few weeks until I return home. After my last day here, I will go to Peace Corps Headquarters in Kampala for a few days, and start my Cessation of Service (COS) process. I’m also taking a few days to visit friends in Bugiri, Iganga and Jinja, including all three students we are helping to support. Then I will return to headquarters for the ceremonial “gonging out” and fly home that night.

Here are some photos for your education and entertainment. Most of these were taken on the way to the CARE office or going to town in the opposite direction. I have been walking briskly a bit more than a mile to work each day,and often both ways. On Sunday I walk to town, same distance. It hasn’t helped me lose much weight but it is good for my blood sugar.

I’ll start a walk to work with White Ants. Two or three times recently, usually right after a rain in the early evening, a plague of winged, “white ants” emerges, flying around my porch light, with some finding their way inside my place. They force me to turn off my lights and then retreat under my mosquito net in bed.  The next morning I found my security guard running around and gathering them before she changed into her uniform to begin the day, Then, walking to work, I found kids picking them from the side of the road.

Showing off their bounty.

Just before school starts at 8 a.m. boda boda drivers are delivering kids to the primary schools., carrying up to three.

I have observed tykes wearing helmets to this school. Good idea.

I walk a rare stretch of tree-lined dirt roads which are shady and cool.

One morning I came across this scene around the corner from the CARE office. Someone took the corner a bit too fast last night.

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Figuring something out at the office

In the land of pit latrines…..

I never heard of this American preacher superimposed over a sea of Africans on a billboard. The crusade was near my cafe, Some of the music was fantastic!

A common sign in Uganda: “This plot is not for sale.” followed by a phone number.

This guy was praising my health for walking to town and turning down a boda boda. That’s worth a photo!

The longest lunar eclipse in a century passed over Uganda last week. I stood outside my house and took this to document my presence for it, This was 40 minutes before the total eclipse. The “blood moon” doesn’t show well from my smart phone of course. A few minutes later it clouded over. I’m told the light on the lower right was Mars. How many people can say they witnessed both a solar and lunar eclipse within a year?

Kids in my neighborhood

My last post about the craziness in Arua in connection with the assassination of the local M.P. did not portray any personal risk. But there are a couple of stories I have held back until now, since I didn’t want people (like my mom) to worry or because of embarrassment. But I want to fully document my experience.

My first encounter with crime happened while I was still in training. At the conclusion to a group shopping trip to Kampala with about six other Peace Corps trainees, we boarded a taxi to return to our training site. I wanted to allow Ndu, a tall Nigerian-American, the front row seat with more leg room. However the taxi conductor insisted I sit in the front. This deference for older white men was common, but in this case, I was probably a considered a more lucrative mark. The man next to me kept reaching across me for the mirror; I was not attentive that he was picking my pocket with his other hand. It’s a common ruse, now with my specific example to cite in future trainings. It was definitely embarrassing. Thieves usually just want cash and we hoped the remaining contents would turn up but they never did. So I lost some family photos, and my Colorado driver’s license. I had to cancel and replace a couple of cards. Ugh.

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