Sunshowers

So I can't ever write when I need to "should have brought a computer" but so it goes. I just got back from up north, helping figure out what needs the local primary schools are lacking. As you can imagine, it was hawt.  Africa is lovely, but it has a few problems, just like everywhere else in the world. Uganda has close to fifty different tribes scattered across the country, which is at least fifty different languages and a whole lot of divide. Politics becomes impossible because it's just a giant scramble to the top, by any means possible. Aid grants never reach their intended market and end up as defense spending to assure the low people in high places their ill begotten positions won't go anywhere. But times change and that was then. 

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Outside of staying busy around here, I'm having to apply to college for the second October in a row. More on that later. Even though it's Africa, Kampala seemingly has forty times more Americans than Moscow, which hopefully won't change anytime soon. 

The free spirited air around here makes everyone a bit more friendly than usual too. Southern ethics are all over the place, except when the taxis take you for a fool. There are plenty of happenings and meeting people is doomed to be interesting. You're pedestaled if you mention Obama to a local.

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As for me, I'm just here in Africa. Out and about, staying busy takes care of thinking too much. But that's not really a problem. A rooster woke me up this morning. The sun is hot and ten feet off the ground. There is plenty to do but no rush. I have two books to finish. 

Everything's in its right place.

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