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Home Stay II

Author: July 3, 2015

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My room for home stay

First, an embarrassing correction. Innocent, age 5, is a boy, not a girl. Both genders wear their hair short, and I thought he had on a dress when we met. He didn’t. I thought he was plain as a girl, but he is handsome as a boy! I confessed my error to Simon and Hellen and they laughed. Innocent leaves at 7 a.m.to school, comes home for a brief dinner and then back to school until 9 p.m. I’ve hardly been able to get acquainted with him. He has his addition tables down cold.

Every morning I walk 2/3 of a mile up a dirt road with a fellow trainee, Becky (30) from Wisconsin. She is staying only a few houses away. She has her own little cottage, hot running water, toilet, and a bath tub. I have small room with a bed, a chair I use to hold all my “stuff”, a bucket to bathe, and a pit latrine.

The courtyard of my home stay when I arrived. Like all the parts of Uganda I've seen so far, red clay everywhere.

The courtyard of my home stay when I arrived. Like all the parts of Uganda I’ve seen so far, red clay everywhere.

We spend most of each day in intensive language training. By all estimates, we have covered 1/2 a college semester in four days. It is brutal on my brain. The other four Kids are doing much better than me. I understand concepts, but my memory of words and proper grammar rules is very weak. This afternoon the instructor, Mango Francis, played on his laptop in the back, while the others drilled each other but mostly worked on me. I am not used to being the class dummy. But Mango says my progress is fine. I called my fellow Fossils and they are also the laggards in their classes.

My host family is just starting to throw their language at me. Sharon is wonderful, teaching me to wash my clothes better tonight, and going over my verbs. She is very smart, but there is not enough money yet to send her to Senior 6, the last step before University.

View from my room during a rain shower

View from my room during a rain shower

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Every day I come home to see more progress in cementing in the courtyard. They started Sunday. The three men work really hard. It would be a swampy red clay mess after rains until now.

We are planning a 4th of July celebration with our host families at the Learning Center. We hope to get together the ingredients to make hamburgers, which my host family has never had. We will also eat Ugandan food. Matooke (Banana casserole) is served at every lunch and dinner. You can’t escape it. I asked Mango if it was big in other African countries, but he says it is unique to Uganda.

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Workers covering the courtyard. Two of them worked barefoot. It took them all week. They were a jovial crew, saying their muscles were as good as American machines. At the end of the day they would bathe and leave on their bikes wearing pressed shirts and trousers. Looking “smart”. My permanent press shirts are not smart enough according to Hellen and Sharon.

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The chickens liked to do their own cement work

Sunday, Simon and Hellen are driving me to his childhood village, where his mom still lives. It is 1 1/2 hours north. It is very primitive, with no electricity. I will likely be the first white person most of them have ever seen (Not even TV of course). He says they will be excited by my smart phone, especially looking at their pictures after I take them.

Stay tuned…..

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Garden

Author: June 26, 2015

Peter has been training gardening to Peace Corps volunteers for 30 years. To say Peter is avid about perma-gardening is putting it mildly. I will try to encapsulate the philosophy behind it.IMAG0977 He observes that it is a common to see large NGOs and Foundations such as Gates, USA Aid, the Rockefellers etc. often boast of 10-20% increases in crop production. However, when this happens, there is a corresponding drop in child nutrition and frequent food insecurity (43% of Uganda with it’s 80% farmers, is food insecure). This seemingly counter-intuitive result is due to the “800 lb. gorilla” in the room, namely that the husband controls the family money and often does not spend it wisely.  The desire to buy new farm equipment, pressure to pay school fees, and unexpected doctor bills all contribute to Food Insecurity. (I am a bit surprised that the rampant alcoholism was not discussed in training, but the Ugandans are pretty open about it)So sometimes the family does not get a variety of nutritious food it needs. This is crazy when you consider the fertility of Uganda and all the rain. There should be plenty of food for the whole country.

Peter teaches that a Perma-garden right next to the family home is a solution to the family’s food insecurity. Perma stands for permanent (duh). Based on the annual rainfall of Uganda, a 6 x 4 roof releases 24,000 liters of rain run-off per year. Allowing for a foot path, the perma-garden would be a few feet away from the side of the house and take advantage of this run-off. You want the garden with a slight slope away from house. Of course, there is also the rain that falls directly on the garden. Taking advantage of roof run off saves “Ma Ma” literally hundreds of trips to the town pump to fetch water in heavy Jerry cans.
The particular design he uses for the garden is his own invention and is ingenious. It incorporates berms on the sides, swales acting as foot paths, and holes in the corners. The photo on the right is after construction before planting IMAG1046The soil in the garden and the berms are “double-dug” and “conditioned” for a much as four feet down, with handfuls of manure (for bacteria); and lots of brown stuff (dead leaves => carbon); green stuff (nitrogen), and charcoal (the small worthless crumbled pieces the charcoal salesman at the market lets you sweep up from his stall => oxygen).
In addition to the garden, we also built a compost pile incorporating the same ingredients.It is kept in the shade and still reaches a temperature over 130 degrees. At that point, pests and bad bacteria die, but good bacteria thrives. When you pull out the stick, and touch the bottom, it is extremely hot.

The six S’s of water management are Stop, Slow, Spread, Sink, Save and Shade. When the rain hits the garden from the roof (usually in a big rush, as I have observed, the rain here is incredibly intense) the berms stop it, slows it down and allows it to spread throughout the whole gardIMAG0984en. Extra run-off is channeled around the garden and goes into the corner holes before the excess is released. The water sinks deep into the garden and is saved. Because it was dug deep, the plants’ roots go down further than the normal 6 to 12 inches to clay. During the dry season, it can still access the deep water saved.

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The materials for a perma-garden are free and easy to get. Once you dig it, the garden is year-round, permanent, and low maintenance. Just rotate the garden plants each season to keep the soil fertile and confuse the pests. Meanwhile, Pa Pa has to plow his 2 acre farm every season and buy fertilizer and pesticides. Our last session got rained out before we could actually plant the garden. He left the next day to teach this in Rwanda. A few of us thought we could do the planting, but Peace Corps has us scheduled pretty tight. Peter built another one (shown here) on the compound in a special training session just last April. IMAG1045It has been totally neglected ever since, and it’s pumpkins are much larger than the compound’s pumpkins, aided by drip lines.

It’s important to get both Ma Ma and Pa Pa to buy in, but a huge advantage is the empowerment it gives to Ma Ma; and no matter how bad things get, the family has food security. I knew some volunteers were planning to install a garden, but I hadn’t given it much thought. I don’t know if my site will have room for a garden, but I would dig one if I could. Peter says when you start clearing away your plot, the curious neighbors will observe this. They have been digging since they were 3 years old and will probably want to help, and rip the hoe right out of your hand. It’s only a matter of time before the early adapters influence the entire village to start their own perma-gardens. Hoeing is strenuous but I did my share. I enjoyed a lengthy conversation with Peter one afternoon, comparing notes about our similar kids and mothers. I scored 11 out of 65 on his test on the first day, and 63 on the retest on the last day.

I move to my home stay for 4 weeks starting June 27. Mostly language training then. As I predicted, early language training has been quite a challenge for me compared to the ability of the four others learning with me. I need to study and practice quite a bit more to keep up.

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Heroes

Author: June 26, 2015

I had two sports heroes in my youth, Floyd Little of the Broncos, and Mickey Mantle. From my teens through most of adulthood, my hero was Pete Townshend of The Who. Now, so many years later, I have a new hero, another Peter, named Peter Jensen, our 52 year old Ag trainer, who taught us how to make perma-gardens last week.

Shown here is Floyd and myself taken June 2012, Floyd Littlewhen I finally got to meet him at a Bronco Alumni function my Rotary Club was invited to attend. I have a photo posing with Townshend taken in 1976 and framed at home with autographs from the band. Regretfully, I didn’t think to get my picture taken with Peter Jenson. IMAG0976So the best I can do is show you a picture of Peter and a selfie I took in front of the Ag IMAG1028volunteers’ perma-garden. I thought some of the blog readers, especially the ones who haven’t seen me for awhile, might be interested in the facial contrast after my weight loss.
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I will post about the whole perma-garden thing next.

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First Time Teaching

Author: June 21, 2015

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Karina and I pose with the kids we taught

The Ag volunteers took a bus on Saturday to a “college” with mixed boarding students and locals. I learned colleges are high schools. Beyond that is University. My teaching partner Karina and I were disappointed to see we had pretty young kids (13-15), so our presentation was probably less effective.
We introduced the concept of gender stereotypes by asking what they thought were typical of Americans. “They are beautiful actors and actresses” “They sing good” “They are God fearing” “They love Africa” “They like to give books to Africa”.”They get divorced” In a practice session with Ugandan adults on staff we heard “They are rich” “Time is money”. After we responded to the kids that their assumptions were not necessarily accurate (“I was married for 30 years and did not get divorced, and when I sing people run away (laughter)”, we split up the boy and girls and asked each group what roles were typical of Ugandan Men and then what roles were typical of Ugandan Women. Both boy and girl groups were uniformly positive of the role of each gender (Men were breadwinners, hard-working, god-fearing, patriotic etc. Women did the cooking, raised the children, did the cleaning etc..) In contrast, both genders of Ugandan adults in our training session were uniformly hard on men (they are lazy, they drink too much, they are unfaithful).
What we had hoped was to show the stark disparity in Ugandan society between gender roles, and then, like the American stereotypes, point out that they don’t have to necessarily support that stereotype. Women don’t have to have children early, some men might want to cook and help to clean etc. Another teaching team with older teens had much better luck getting across that concept.
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The kids went out to pose for pictures with us (sorry they are really sharp on my phone), and then Karina (far left) went into Summer Camp Counselor mode and did sing-alongs and played “Red Light, Green Light” a game I hadn’t seen or played since my own childhood. As I said, she is a natural, and they loved it. I want to learn some of those summer camp songs. I enjoyed engaging with the kids on a small group level, always ending with the customary fist bumps all around.

Ag training next.

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Teach Your Children

Author: June 21, 2015

My Agriculture training last week was mind-blowing, and I am excited to post about it soon, but we are also spending a great deal of time learning teaching skills. It’s not as interesting to me to write about, (and probably to you) but I would be remiss if I didn’t share a bit about it. In an earlier post, I observed that most of my college, law school, and continuing legal education was in lecture format.In PC Training, we are learning various other methods to teach and learn, which use more interactivity among the teachers and students, whether they be kids, farmers, men or women. This chart was presented as to how much new information is retained using a given method:
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Reading 10%
Audio/Visual 20%
Demonstration 30%
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I don’t know the empirical source for this, but intuitively it makes sense. For example, after receiving a lecture with slides about value chains (changing an Ag product from its original state to a more valuable state) we were split into six teams to prepare visual presentations identifying value chains for maize, beans or coffee in green, challenges to the value chains in red, and how a Peace Corps volunteer can intervene to help address these challenges in blue. Each team then presented to the class. Above is a photo of the charts we made. Its not worth trying to read, just an illustration. The exercise simultaneously utilizes several methods. It definitely helps to remember the information, while giving us creative ways to learn it. We do this every day. Now we are doing lesson plans and practicing presentations. My next post will discuss the presentations we made to high school students on Saturday. Ours was on Uganda gender stereotypes. To hook them in we ask them for traits they assume about Americans. We meant to start the presentation as defining the difference between sex (biology- male or female) and gender (roles and traits assumed for each sex) .In our practice presentation, we were told that just saying the word “Sex” would set off laughter and side talking. So we won’t say the word.

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The Site Is Right

Author: June 12, 2015

For the site selection announcements today they made it like the “Price is Right”, calling it the “The Site is Right”  i.e. “Charley! Come on Down!” Cheesy as it seems. Then after a few corny jokes (I can’t even remember what they said about me) we were each told our location.

I will be working with rice farmers, and youth for the African Trainer and Entrepreneurs Forum. I will be living in Bugiri District, which is east of Kampala near the Northern Shores of the Lake Victoria, not too far from the border with Kenya.

It’s swampy, hence the rice farming. It will be hot and I’ll have to protect myself from Mosquitoes. There is a nearby volunteer I’ve heard about, working on a new product you can spray on the walls that prevent the malaria mosquitoes from landing. If they can’t land on walls, they won’t stay.

Quoting pertinent parts from the from the job description:

African Trainer and Entrepreneurs Forum was founded in 2009 to engage women and youths in modern agricultural practice. Our goal is to strengthen and support capacity of smallholder family farms and business communities in agribusiness and investment for economic transformation and food security.
MAJOR ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES
 –  Promote rural financial inclusion through the Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) methodology
-  Mobilize people and support them in creating income generating activities including soap-making, charcoal briquettes, candle making, mushroom growing
 –  Supporting rice farmers in growing lowland rice

PRIMARY JOB DUTIES
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 – Conduct regular field visits to beneficiaries to provide hands on technical assistance,mentoring and coaching
 – Mobilize participating farmer groups and clusters to participate in collecting marketing and bulk purchasing of agro-inputs
 – Enhancing building capacity of farmers in business management and skills through training in farming as a business
 – Promoting farmer access to agri-finance through training and VSLA methodology

My supervisor is “an entrepreneur and mentor to Ugandan youths through the Uganda Youth Entrepreneur League. In his free time he likes to spend time with his friends, many of whom are part of the Rotary Club.” Uganda is the second most entrepreneurial country in the world (percentage of independent businesses). Getting acquainted with the local Rotary Club will help my integration into the community.

Here are more photos from today. Sorry about the quality. I think they look good on my camera and on Google Drive but they get fuzzy when I transfer them to WordPress. Even the map above (not from my camera) transferred fuzzy. Still learning.

To the right I am posing with Lucine, the Uganda Country Director. She is from Armenia, where she met her husband, a Peace Corps volunteer. She became a U.S. citizen and has worked in several countries. She told me Peace Corps has a five year rule, and she will be leaving us next year.

IMAG0927On the left, David (56) my roommate during training, myself (60), and Ron (66). They claim Wisconsin as their home state, but neither have lived there for a long time. In one of our evaluation groups we called ourselves the “Fossils”. They will be posted in the west, across the country from me.IMAG0937

Peace Corps brought in some dancers and drummers after our site selection ceremony.

DancingOn the left, I’m dancing with a native dancer. (Photo from another camera). We were all kind of pushed out there.

In a few weeks I’ll be living with my Home Stay community with four other volunteers somewhere in the Eastern section, One of them, Nick, is from Kansas City and will be posted in nearby Jinga, at the headwaters of the Nile. He loves the Kansas City Chiefs, poor guy. Carson, a Denver University grad hailing from Vermont, will also be nearby. We will be learning the Lusoga language. It’s nearly identical to Lugando, the dominant language. First however, are two weeks of intensive Ag training.

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Pre-Service Training I

Author: June 11, 2015

If you are reading this, it will mean we got our internet back. The “kids” were Skyping and Face-timing so much they drained all the data purchased for internet usage. We were finally granted limited access to the internet from a Non-governmental Organizations (NGO) on our compound. There might be better ways, but I’m betting they want us to be more efficient. I usually type on Word beforehand anyway and then copy and paste.  This weekend I’ll get a usb modem stick so I don’t have to depend on the compound.

I met an American from an NGO in a restaurant in Kampala who noticed I had the same phone as his phone. He showed me how to improve my photo settings which I hope helps, but the photos today pre-date my lesson.

We were taught how to cook with charcoal. This is more harmful to the environment than a gas cooker or crock pot, which are also easier, IMAG0879and will be my primary options if I get electricity.

Similarly we were taught how to bucket bathe, and wash clothes with a bar of soap or powder. They take at least two days to dry on the line, even without the daily rain showers. I intend to hire someone to wash my clothes which PC says is fine and can come out of our stipend. I think many will do that. I washed today and my sore back gives big respect to my pioneer women ancestors.

Below is a demonstration how to use a pit latrine. Straddle and squat. Don’t spray bug spray in there or the bugs come rushing out, which annoys your neighbors.

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IMAG0891 This one of the giant taxi parks in Kampala.  Sorry, I didn’t get any other good city photos yet.

So far this week the classes have been about how to structure projects, monitoring and evaluation, intercultural behavior, sexual health, sexual harassment, personal security and risk reduction, resiliency after your efforts don’t work out, and responsible use of alcohol. They teach using group activities, a method I am not used to. All my life I attended straight lectures.

After meeting with the Ag people, I was given a list of what they thought would be five compatible jobs. I was pleased to see that four of the five were in my top six. The one that wasn’t was a Catholic High School for girls. Although it didn’t require a motorcycle, I want to work with both genders. You can’t empower women unless you raise the consciousness of the men.
We submitted our top three job preferences and will learn our assignments and sites on Friday. Besides wanting to work with farmers and young people of both genders, mine are weighted toward business more than agriculture of course. Unlike some volunteers, I am not seeking the most remote, rural and rustic sites.
I have learned from volunteers who have come through to help with training that, opposite of my assumption, the Ag volunteers usually have the best accommodations. All the Ag jobs are supported by NGOs, which provide the funding for our housing. Many have electricity and indoor plumbing. Education volunteers have the least favorable housing, supported by local schools or government. Health volunteers are a bit better than education. You couldn’t tell from the job descriptions what your site housing will be like.
Otherwise, I have been healthy and keeping up with the Kids OK. I sure wish I could have seen American Pharaoh win the Triple Crown and it looks like I’ve missed two great games in the NBA Finals.

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Red Mosquito

Author: June 5, 2015

We watched a video from the State Department about Malaria. 162 members of the State Department contracted Malaria in 2013, and 113 of them were in the Peace Corps. The number one reason, is forgetting to take the daily meds to prevent it. I’m adding my daily dose the pile I take every morning. Some real sad stories in that video. We have rapid test kits and initial pills in our medical supplies.

We divided into teams and made posters.IMAG0872 This one was made by a pretty good artist on my team. It wasn’t picked as the best, but it was my favorite.

Red man’s your neighbor, call it behavior
While you’re climbing up slippery hills
Two steps ahead of him, punctures in your neck
Hovering just above your bed
Hovering just above your bed

I was bitten, must have been the devil
He was just paying me…
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Getting in Tune

Author: June 5, 2015

We are settled into the training compound. After the long trip without much sleep. Peace Corps took it easy on us for about half a day and now they are starting to cram our brain with so many new things. I am impressed with everything about it. Peace Corps has had a long time to develop their methods. The staff made Welcome posters for each of us.

The compound is no resort but it’s nice. It’s reminds me of the YMCA of the Rockies Camp in Estes Park. Showers have mostly been cold and I have a mosquito net on my bed. The food has been OK but is often similar meal to meal. There are too many carbs like rice, pita bread (yum) and potatoes. Lots of banana dishes. I am not giving in to the carbs, but I wish there were more veggies, and salads haven’t been available. Kale was good today. The kids of the staff peek out here and there and they are so cute. I’ll try not to keep repeating how cute the kids are, and you will get plenty of kid photos during my service. These are some random shots of the compound.

IMAG0874In a brief trip to town, we saw women in customary long skirts riding side-saddle on the back of motorcycles. Or three little kids lined up behind a parent on a cycle.IMAG0876
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IMAG0871I met with the Agriculture staff today, and interviewed a volunteer about to go home from an assignment location I am considering. We have been given Nokia phones which are used primarily to talk to staff and volunteers in an internal network. We are supposed to get new SIM cards for our smart phones too. We set up our banking and will get debit cards . Our $200 per month stipends are direct deposited and it should be enough to get by each month. The weather has been great so far, very mild, often breezy. No complaints.

 

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Pleased to meet you…

Author: June 1, 2015

Orientation is a series of exercises with lots of interaction among volunteers, covering a variety of issues. It’s certainly been more interesting than listening to continuing legal education lectures. We had a short language lesson in Luganda, a common Uganda language, confirming my anxiety about it. There was open discussion about our aspirations and anxieties. As a result, I now have a few more things to be anxious about. 😉

iStock_000020843196_HelloWe learned Uganda is one of the first 12 countries selected for a new foreign policy initiative “Let Girls Learn”  The Peace Corps is the lead agency. Many potential jobs in my Agricultural sector are intended to empower women.

Besides the cultural divide with Uganda, there is a cultural divide between myself and the younger volunteers. In one exercise, my group enthusiastically did a presentation based upon the theme song of the “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” a TV show from the ’80s I never watched. I only know the theme to “Gilligan’s Island”. But I did contribute a couple of good couplets.

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