tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18062054120813223642024-03-12T16:25:23.208-07:00Taking You Closer"If your picture is not good enough, then you are not close enough" <br>
~ Robert Capa ~Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.comBlogger169125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-33094300674463265442012-05-09T21:15:00.002-07:002012-05-09T21:15:57.225-07:00Looking at the red center<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I just realized it looks like I haven’t been anywhere in a
year. That, fortunately for me, is not true. However, on my last adventure, my
travel companion is not as internet/technology happy as me and every time I
made a move for my computer I was met with a glare — so much for blogging my
adventures down under.</div>
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The good news is I had lots of positive experiences on my
try to Australia, the bad news, is I haven’t had time to share them … yet.</div>
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Hopefully that will change as I work to find the time to fit
everything I want to into a currently over packed schedule.</div>
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Until then … this is Uluru.</div>
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When I first saw it for real, I was in the process of
climbing up to a small lookout. When I saw the giant monolith I let out such as
gasp that my friend, and a number of people around, thought I had seen/steeped
on a snake. They turned to look and was met with my silent, wide-eyed stare,
pointing at the gorgeous red rock on the horizon.</div>
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</div>Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-28834720438600366642011-07-26T19:27:00.000-07:002011-07-26T20:35:11.202-07:00Happy-NessMusic festivals are great for the music, but even better for the atmosphere. <p class="MsoNormal">Here’s a quick look at the faces that appeared at the <a href="http://www.nesscreek.com/">Ness Creek Music Festival</a> in Northern Saskatchewan, where happy-ness and peaceful-ness reigned supreme and colour is appreciated.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSGgrLcGdt8TXBSJe5ZBd6PE9AyiC6Y0QsVGdxmpismbjH60ycetQKrcgcQ3GwkWariAvnIlPfb17fxuHLNTa4twEPPm1fwgK8YcFpEPdOtbnKrSsbOQwlLu4vrOzrT5NWttyH0eiLI40/s1600/Ness+Faces+2.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 276px; height: 411px;" 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id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633868879839464018" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy2A0pR8TIuUyiMgO-7qc81w8pmBm_cs2C9WkJklkvcwmLsKJJJxsxAMSg3IoBhW0nqn7SWI5ltQnvNS-ve9AQwbjPiFJ0SIAktNMtrCgG2IkSM0liRdr0MnlHrZoFs9W7WG6ZiUoZ4Dk/s1600/Ness+Faces+6.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy2A0pR8TIuUyiMgO-7qc81w8pmBm_cs2C9WkJklkvcwmLsKJJJxsxAMSg3IoBhW0nqn7SWI5ltQnvNS-ve9AQwbjPiFJ0SIAktNMtrCgG2IkSM0liRdr0MnlHrZoFs9W7WG6ZiUoZ4Dk/s400/Ness+Faces+6.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633868884284215634" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjz3n0_f-SGMYMm2g-T3pIDq1pfOW-upyQMEDpYj-o31gQJ8WGbC5lYa65DEQRx34k0ygBXmjiUvfpsqJ0EyviVxHBKEt19eTC9i3kzePDu3jBq799NcGycj7A7b6rBZYa4i2GMWG_NSg/s1600/Ness.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 273px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjz3n0_f-SGMYMm2g-T3pIDq1pfOW-upyQMEDpYj-o31gQJ8WGbC5lYa65DEQRx34k0ygBXmjiUvfpsqJ0EyviVxHBKEt19eTC9i3kzePDu3jBq799NcGycj7A7b6rBZYa4i2GMWG_NSg/s400/Ness.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633868890796579666" border="0" /></a></p>For more photos visit: <a href="http://www.panow.com/media/photos/ness-creek-people">Ness Creek, the people</a>Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-10019054847893485102011-07-05T21:04:00.000-07:002011-07-05T21:06:08.938-07:00Mosquito Heaven North of 50 - One Girl's 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Usually self-respecting mosquitoes stick to two times of day, dawn and dusk. There are so many of the little blood suckers that at 10 a.m. there is one licking it’s lips and looking at me.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Wait, do mosquitoes have lips?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Point being, I am slowly becoming covered with the tell-tale welts that reveal my seemingly nasty allergy to mosquito bites.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Even when I am wearing deep-woods, deet-infused bug repellent I can hear their high pitch whine as they look for a safe place to land. Then the whine stops. And people I am sitting with are treated to my mini dance as I trash about trying to figure out where it landed and trying to kill it before it bites me.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I guess I should count my blessings though, at least they are not the malaria-carrying Anopheles, or I would be in a lot more trouble that simply uncomfortable.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">If I am looking as the positives, at least this weather has meant much shortened season of the funny, green worms that hang off the trees on spider-web-like silk.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">On the other hand, I seem to prefer the areas of the world that have Anopheles. </p>Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-21694992442185794492010-08-11T06:42:00.000-07:002010-08-11T06:43:06.310-07:00SigningIn a taxi on my way to downtown Kampala on one of my last days, I watched two girls having a conversation. One was speaking in Luganda while using sign language and the other was responding using sign language.<br />It was an awesome to watch their conversation. The girls were fluent in two languages, and one was based on English. I’m lucky if I can use English on it’s own at the best of times. :)Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-47563714655440648252010-08-08T07:42:00.000-07:002010-08-08T07:44:51.162-07:00Searching for one bag...It's bad news when the two women trying to get your bag checked through to Saskatoon call for a third person by saying, "come and see what we are doing."<br />It wasn't so much they wanted more help that concerned me, but they had the excitement of a child doing something they weren't supposed to.<br />I started to believe I might never see my bag again.<br />It was my own fault, the woman checked my bag to London and printed out the baggage tag. Dreading having to clear customs and immigration simply to check-in again, I asked if she could check them into my final destination, which didn't appear on her computer ... initially.<br />The first woman, called over the second and they typed and chatted excitedly. A bag tag for Sydney came out. I pointed out that, that wasn't Saskatoon, they should be looking for YXE. I was also wishing I had kept my mouth shut.<br />Then as if someone was looking out for me, the system died. We were left with the bag tag for London, which they put on my bag and it disappeared.<br /><br />Good news, I saw my bag again in London, Toronto and finally Saskatoon. Yay. I'm not going to lie I had more than a little doubt about seeing it again.Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-6483013757581443512010-08-05T07:36:00.001-07:002010-08-05T07:40:04.411-07:00I saw you.<p class="MsoNormal">Nakulabye is the best place in <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Kampala</st1:place></st1:city> for pork.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">However, its meaning is what I find interesting. Nakulabye means I saw you. It was so- called for it’s location in a valley beneath where the king historically lived.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">You couldn’t really pass through the area without someone from above being able to see you. They would then say, “I saw you.”</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Nakulabye.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOiKElbrLxtg9gg_7uwj1KLYHTa9KTrh8sVNPadp-ObZheS2CYq_sD3BM46FAQb9hkQ2j80kWRhu4Or4uhXqAY1HBmBi7El0ONnTx-7ZgTan0lTjjcMJsRQFcYGglKUYmxJ-Pp2YS9YQg/s1600/blog.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOiKElbrLxtg9gg_7uwj1KLYHTa9KTrh8sVNPadp-ObZheS2CYq_sD3BM46FAQb9hkQ2j80kWRhu4Or4uhXqAY1HBmBi7El0ONnTx-7ZgTan0lTjjcMJsRQFcYGglKUYmxJ-Pp2YS9YQg/s320/blog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501935198780456626" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-4678031349276246922010-08-05T07:32:00.001-07:002010-08-05T07:32:47.478-07:00ROUS?When in Sudan I had a moment straight out of the Princess Bride, if you haven’t seen this movie please go and do so.<br />We were leaving this restaurant well after dark, around 9 p.m. when something big scurried across the road in front of the car.<br />It was bigger than a cat, but with a long naked tail and it moved like a mouse.<br />I was sitting in the front seat and I’m sure my eyes bulged.<br />“Did anyone else see that?” I asked.<br />There were equally shocked expressions on people in the backseat. They nodded.<br />“Was that a rat?”<br />Our driver just laughed.<br />It instantly took me back to the move. Where the heroes are walking through the woods when someone asked about the ROUS.<br />“Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist,” one of the characters responds.<br />Well they do and they are living in Southern Sudan.<br />That night, one of them ate the hearing aid of one of our travel companions … fortunately it wasn’t in his ear at the time.Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-7548823202954696942010-08-04T08:13:00.000-07:002010-08-04T08:15:05.751-07:00Speaking outI nearly caused an accident yesterday evening.<br />While running late to meet a friend and head out of town, I hopped on a boda-boda (the ubiquitous motorcycle taxi). Another driver was following us closely, calling, “muzungu, muzungu” (white person) at me.<br />I turned around, still clinging to my boda, and started to speak to him in Luganda, the main language spoken in Kampala (after English).<br />He started at me.<br />Asked me a question in Luganda, I responded.<br />My boda driver was laughing - the other driver seemed to forget he was driving at 60 km per hour. He was staring at me in disbelief and drifting over the yellow line.<br />“Taxi,” I yelled in English.<br />That brought him back to reality. He pulled out of the path of the oncoming bus and sped away.<br />I still find it a little funny that a few words in the local language can cause such a stir.Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-73186659718657302742010-08-02T05:09:00.000-07:002010-08-02T05:11:20.834-07:00Open letterAn open letter to all the first time visitors to Uganda,<br /><br />1. Please stop moving in herds,<br />2. People here aren’t going to hurt you. The worst that will happen is you will be relieved of that expensive watch you shouldn’t be wearing anyway,<br />3. No one is looking to give anyone food poisoning, especially not you, sick people make for bad restaurant business,<br />4. Stop paying excessively and tipping, especially in local establishments. I know you think you are doing a good thing, but you are driving up the costs of things for locals,<br />5. Do not pay people for their photos, unless they are street performers and then only maybe. If they say ‘no, I don’t want my picture taken’ then walk away,<br />6. Stop calling them the slums of Kampala, the area is called Kisenyi and in it are people’s homes. How would you like someone to call your neighbourhood a slum?,<br />7. Don’t do things you aren’t trained for. If you are an arts student, don’t provide medical ‘advice’ in the ‘slums (see 6).’ People here deserve the same level of care that you would like to receive,<br />8. Please if you are only coming to preach or feel good about yourself, stay home. People here need doctors and nurses and money, they don’t need to be told by some white person that their needs will be met if they pray. There are enough local priests and pastors here to tell them that.<br />9. If you want your church dollars to be put to good use, help support local hospitals or schools. Why are there two brand new, very expensive looking churches next to a hospital that is falling apart and can hardly afford to pay staff? People here can pray anywhere, surgery cannot be performed outside. The good news is when people die from a lack of care, they’ll have a nice place for a funeral … if they can afford it.<br /><br />My question is, if you are afraid of being here, why did you come?<br />Really take a deep breath, get out past the gates and sanitized accommodation and enjoy Kampala and the countryside of Uganda, it’s called the Pearl of Africa for a reason. Be a tourist and support the local economy as that will help more than you can imagine.<br /><br />Thank you,<br />AngelaAngelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-66956673320831811242010-08-02T04:20:00.000-07:002010-08-02T04:21:35.107-07:00Scars vs tattoosI had this grand plan when I came home to get a tattoo, but I’ve apparently decided to go with unintentional scarification instead.<br />What this means is I am a klutz and will be returning to Canada with more lasting marks than I left with.<br />A couple of days before I left on the trip I managed to perform minor surgery with my razor on my leg. That is turning into a nice scar.<br />When I arrived in Kajo Keji County, Southern Sudan, I literally fell out of the back of a truck, resulting in another nice scar.<br />And this morning while again shaving my legs – I think I know what the hazard is here – I managed to cut up my left lower back on the faucet. Please don’t as me how as I am not even sure.<br />While trying to perform first aid on my back and hip I realized, this is one of those times it would be nice to travel with someone.<br />Actually at the rate I am going, I’m going to need to start traveling with my own medical trauma team.<br />So much of my body is now marked up, I’m not going to have space for a tattoo.Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-46286728796436341762010-08-01T01:08:00.000-07:002010-08-01T01:11:11.749-07:00FencesWhen the guesthouse said they locked their gates at midnight, they weren’t kidding. <p class="MsoNormal">The problem was the security guard who assured me he would always be on the inside to let me in, wasn’t.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">So, what’s a girl with a raging head cold and a desire to be asleep to do, when faced with at 12 foot tall iron fence?</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4X3qPWun3Ct877dmAOpuVZi4pLCZL_N4Rp86TSP90ywhpBqkqtysKYuqZrTvzNjBqno5yBzbZ94BPc-TGhtpNgREhpZFsE7pSz6V3MPYDp5GB_RIOPKXJs98v-CbNkibL_Xt9J3cPf3w/s1600/fence.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4X3qPWun3Ct877dmAOpuVZi4pLCZL_N4Rp86TSP90ywhpBqkqtysKYuqZrTvzNjBqno5yBzbZ94BPc-TGhtpNgREhpZFsE7pSz6V3MPYDp5GB_RIOPKXJs98v-CbNkibL_Xt9J3cPf3w/s320/fence.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500350624812318082" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Climb it.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">After I got over the concern that I would be shot if caught climbing it, I was good to go --even the spikes along the top presented very little problem.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Once safely on the other side, I ran into the guard, who was very apologetic, so much for my concern of getting in trouble.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">He showed me how to get around the gate if I was ever locked out again.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">So much for security.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-61414577697973949822010-08-01T01:06:00.000-07:002010-08-01T01:07:50.129-07:00CheckingSince the explosion of two bombs, in Kampala, in early July, security checkpoints of sprung up everywhere.<br />I’ve had my bag search and my body patted down more times in the last few days than in the Seattle airport.<br />The checkpoints are at higher end stores, entrances to hotels, malls, and hospitals. They are at some of the entrances to the taxi parks.<br />This is where is becomes confusing. Why only some of the entrances and why am I only checked sometimes?<br />Also I get the feeling that many of these security guards, armed with their metal detecting wands, have no idea what they are looking for and less idea of what to do if they found something.<br />I guess it’s good that the government wants to protect the people, but I’m not sure how much more secure people feel.Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-21309971723013180352010-07-30T00:13:00.000-07:002010-07-30T00:15:15.717-07:00Crazy KampalaWhile Sudan had it’s moments I’m excited to be back in Uganda.<br />The temperature is hot, but not reaching the almost unbearable levels of Juba, the language I can speak, a little, the people I know and I am free to move around and take public transit.<br />In some way it feels like nothing has changed, but then I look around to all the new development and the success of my friends and feel like everything has.<br />And all of a sudden I am back ... crazy KampalaAngelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-45419127316078781162010-07-28T05:13:00.000-07:002010-07-28T05:23:25.964-07:00The view from above<p class="MsoNormal">The drive between <st1:place st="on">Juba</st1:place> and Kajo Keji is sketchy to say the least. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">So to avoid the 12-hour, death defying drive back, we took to the sky.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The air strip was a fenced off field and the pilot prayed before take off, but it was a smooth journey and took a fraction of the ground time – 35 minutes from take off to landing.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Seen from above, <st1:place st="on">Southern Sudan</st1:place> in the rainy season is beautiful.</p> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFmSQZyJ6aYq7NoRAeWHNlP4brFPUEFlOzUL0Nb7-zNxJXYAhioGQyapvYcS55EWqAUHqbEbGV-3e_pDanHmlQMMcL9_rDlmBgOaB0IAIoyWSd33tEmRDUuvozaaE3C77_3fp2z16MOjw/s1600/pic2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFmSQZyJ6aYq7NoRAeWHNlP4brFPUEFlOzUL0Nb7-zNxJXYAhioGQyapvYcS55EWqAUHqbEbGV-3e_pDanHmlQMMcL9_rDlmBgOaB0IAIoyWSd33tEmRDUuvozaaE3C77_3fp2z16MOjw/s320/pic2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498930524960828978" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq8Iw6kd4BXgjofO3I6mepxytUUmYRZaA5hbCghX6GfdxEEgUfbQzrFWubsuNs9dUUnNuAQ4siX_AwoDu2vya8VOg6j71C3K1HiKhrCyABrpy9pfLHdkLMshKd2cPuAoxP1O3JRMcU2dk/s1600/pic1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq8Iw6kd4BXgjofO3I6mepxytUUmYRZaA5hbCghX6GfdxEEgUfbQzrFWubsuNs9dUUnNuAQ4siX_AwoDu2vya8VOg6j71C3K1HiKhrCyABrpy9pfLHdkLMshKd2cPuAoxP1O3JRMcU2dk/s320/pic1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498929916079936658" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br />Our pilot<br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF2EynjraHNeYiFbDDcZw33k2Aq8PVgE_yZ3zY-j5XWzhbm6qzIln0aXSie5hXtrAegwx_0qZLBxLRUXKPIbMkNFmaZb1okECrVDPQklaAlY0NITwem6R0KQE_B1MaA0JlVPTo9vnSd2Q/s1600/pic3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF2EynjraHNeYiFbDDcZw33k2Aq8PVgE_yZ3zY-j5XWzhbm6qzIln0aXSie5hXtrAegwx_0qZLBxLRUXKPIbMkNFmaZb1okECrVDPQklaAlY0NITwem6R0KQE_B1MaA0JlVPTo9vnSd2Q/s320/pic3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498930830587341122" border="0" /></a>Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-28058223315838032962010-07-26T11:33:00.000-07:002010-07-26T11:36:13.133-07:00ThunderstormsThere are some pretty amazing thunderstorms in this part of Southern Sudan. You can always tell when they are coming by watching the clouds gather.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-_A9Oek6PTnea6ft2Wm_9a9iOl0pzYRANFmO0cOp4tfbDP0Av1XLXfQX_pzlIyCcwthMPLC8dHKOW5eQ9ujvN__2VuIVhnr0hoWhGc8zR2XEHnJuA5ANXa5wH7EklFOzulEhs4lQ0zwU/s1600/IMG_1788.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-_A9Oek6PTnea6ft2Wm_9a9iOl0pzYRANFmO0cOp4tfbDP0Av1XLXfQX_pzlIyCcwthMPLC8dHKOW5eQ9ujvN__2VuIVhnr0hoWhGc8zR2XEHnJuA5ANXa5wH7EklFOzulEhs4lQ0zwU/s320/IMG_1788.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498285461632843474" border="0" /></a>Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-10220638804044851372010-07-25T11:35:00.000-07:002010-07-25T11:39:29.471-07:00SpidersMy room is starting to look like a scene from the movie Arachnophobia.<br />Let me rephrase that, my room is starting to look like what I would imagine a scene in Arachnophobia to look like – I would not actually be able to sit through that movie.<br />Point being it started with a rather larger spider on the floor under my bed, who was too fast for me to catch and too big for me to kill.<br />Now I’ve got two other ones hanging out on the wall just outside my mosquito net and there is at least one near my roommates bed.<br />I’m not even going to mention the number in the bathroom.<br />Blah.<br />Spiders, I hate spiders. Why did it have to be spiders.<br />I’m very glad for my mosquito net, hopefully it will continue to keep the spiders at bay and there will be no more.<br /><br />…. Update.<br />One has disappeared.<br />The only thing worse than seeing several spiders is knowing they are around, but not seeing them.Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-14248078755036072102010-07-25T11:27:00.000-07:002010-07-25T11:31:25.298-07:00A nice cup of tea...ishI have a new addiction, actually it’s an old addiction that is back to haunt me. Tea. African Tea with lots of powered milk, called Nido, and sugar.<br />I start every day with two cups of the sugary stuff, have at least one during the day and have one with dinner.<br />The hot water is served in these massive thermoses, the very sight of them make me thrill.<br />There are side effects of the addiction. I’m almost constantly bouncing off the walls and at night I have to make several trips to the bathroom.Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-2176644108975687472010-07-23T04:50:00.000-07:002010-07-23T05:04:55.040-07:00The kids<p class="MsoNormal">There are kids everywhere at the school and they are more than delighted to see all of us.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">They scream and run close for a chance to shake hands then pose to get their picture taken.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I can’t resist. They are so cute.<br /></p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR3xT3HtU_YKf5R8Z1il3QffizMtfc_YiUsKYqmkjnZH4eK6481sa-FdMBXOpggqmYRVq_OEgX8LuXV6xJvxxlVbK-Lo9dN0K0BjHK8eoZ2_s2cqeQkVIihgqW2XUlo_tdwMRt6Z0xgNs/s1600/kids5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR3xT3HtU_YKf5R8Z1il3QffizMtfc_YiUsKYqmkjnZH4eK6481sa-FdMBXOpggqmYRVq_OEgX8LuXV6xJvxxlVbK-Lo9dN0K0BjHK8eoZ2_s2cqeQkVIihgqW2XUlo_tdwMRt6Z0xgNs/s320/kids5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497070433056028114" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiirQpGAl1HvNWaAS5TgDcdzsE_nvIlF_Tt20Y_bgaVL3ob1u_0Ky2gaA04F9-uNg5AjE7D6GhaMWgnWw6rw3lByz36QJ9mIib1-IYAnm1cSYWRh4aR9ib12w678ZuSpf7-VDtkZvvKoy8/s1600/kids3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiirQpGAl1HvNWaAS5TgDcdzsE_nvIlF_Tt20Y_bgaVL3ob1u_0Ky2gaA04F9-uNg5AjE7D6GhaMWgnWw6rw3lByz36QJ9mIib1-IYAnm1cSYWRh4aR9ib12w678ZuSpf7-VDtkZvvKoy8/s320/kids3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497069726152028850" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHsBWY7WwTG-eJopXbCIoqQkCFVknHP4jynP5kL-QDf2CuXVb7VcOsCwOGc_51GGK0N68eHz_-g_GoqnAncEvLM8rhVPou-cA-uNdefOilso6EOEgHh1gJGJy4lUC9iBk6lleL7hyM7aA/s1600/kids2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHsBWY7WwTG-eJopXbCIoqQkCFVknHP4jynP5kL-QDf2CuXVb7VcOsCwOGc_51GGK0N68eHz_-g_GoqnAncEvLM8rhVPou-cA-uNdefOilso6EOEgHh1gJGJy4lUC9iBk6lleL7hyM7aA/s320/kids2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497068978032553282" border="0" /></a>Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-80329164798462500872010-07-22T04:40:00.000-07:002010-07-22T04:41:46.803-07:00Don't talk and driveSo apparently Saskatchewan police aren’t the only ones looking out for people’s cell phone use while they drive.<br />I was in a car with the pair that had been assigned to help me track down my press credentials.<br />The driver, Charles, was on the phone, but he was doing a fabulous job driving in the jammed Juba streets, so I wasn’t so worried about it.<br />Suddenly he started talking louder, so I looked over at him and realized he was holding the phone in his lap.<br />I looked around to see that we were driving past some police officers directing traffic.<br />They don’t like it, he said as he skilfully turned the phone off and slid it into the glove box.<br />So it’s not illegal, but it seems better to not do things the police don’t like.Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-660830039936986722010-07-20T03:48:00.001-07:002010-07-20T03:48:44.650-07:00Frogs?<p class="MsoNormal">A distinct feature of our little prefab is frogs.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And no, that’s not slang for something else. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">I mean little, well not so little some cases, green-spotted, jumpy frogs.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The first run in came when I was in the shower on the first day. I wasn’t wearing my glasses and something moved across the floor to hide behind the toilet. My first thought was it was the largest cockroach I had ever seen. I almost died. I finished my shower in record time.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">With my glasses on, I could see that the intruder was far cuter than a bug.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I coaxed the frog into our garbage container and left him outside.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">But, we’ve had more. It must have partially to do with the rainy season and partially to do with my luck, but we’ve had three pet frogs since our arrival.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Two were released, but the third hiding beneath the bed and that’s where he’ll stay, at least until the housekeepers find him.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-45632726284501275742010-07-18T13:08:00.000-07:002010-07-18T13:15:45.013-07:00Pre-fabThere is a distinct lack of permanence to the structures in Juba town. Driving from the airport to our accommodation the driver was pointing out the hotels, known as camps, as we drove past.<br />“They’re all pre-fab,” he said knowingly.<br />The pre-fab, short for prefabricated material is a big part of the construction in and around Juba.<br />They are shipped into the country pre-made and ready to go.<br />Basically they are like staying in a shipping container, thin metal walls and laminate flooring – but fortunately ours comes with an air conditioner and shower so I’m not complaining.<br />As one UN worker mentioned to me, no one thinks much past next year.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia-sLTbJnUu5VIcuxEZt5_EAOocYn6z0SbPGakcwUA6tMPRUH-Q6vusKImRlRaEZZuoiSh9sYkxEGhcdVCCbDPQ-GlcOyT00MaoNxJeN8Rhry9AuWuy275z3PgiFZTh0bxQ5QXyeNrdoQ/s1600/Prefab+hotel.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia-sLTbJnUu5VIcuxEZt5_EAOocYn6z0SbPGakcwUA6tMPRUH-Q6vusKImRlRaEZZuoiSh9sYkxEGhcdVCCbDPQ-GlcOyT00MaoNxJeN8Rhry9AuWuy275z3PgiFZTh0bxQ5QXyeNrdoQ/s320/Prefab+hotel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495341994180326738" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Our pre-fab hotel</span><br /></div>Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-70927027019033410272010-07-16T22:50:00.000-07:002010-07-16T22:55:39.431-07:00Leg room..I must have gained some bad flight karma laughing about flights on my way to Calgary, Thursday.<br />The plane between London and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia had about 6 inches of leg room from the end of one seat to the back of the next. I've never felt so crammed into a plan in my life and of course we were delayed for 45 minutes on the ground in London allowing me to discover the number of uncomfortable positions I'd be able to wedge myself in for the flight.<br /><br />.. six hours later, I was so desperate for leg space I'd give away someone else's first born for it. I've had my legs cramp and had the flight attendant hit them with the dinner cart, the duty free cart, the breakfast cart, the drink cart...<br /><br />Apparently the plane to Juba is smaller. Oh, good.Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-23998522925220278652010-05-26T12:55:00.000-07:002010-05-26T12:56:37.232-07:00SanctionsSanctions, like boycotts and blockades, only work when the government or ruling party (military of individual) cares about their people.<br />In the case of North Korea – and it’s not that I want to judge Kim Jong Il but – I would suggest the leadership doesn’t care. Millions of people starving to death over the past decades are only the beginning of evidence of this.<br />So as every nation decides to side with South Korea and up their sanctions the only people that are going to suffer are the average person. The rich will have ways around it and the leaders don’t care.<br />With more than $200 million not showing up in the country, that's a lot of people to suffer.<br />The problem is I can’t come up with a better way to tell North Korea that it can’t blow up South Korean ships.Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-80477572989801234332010-05-20T21:32:00.000-07:002010-05-20T21:48:54.249-07:00Wildfire<p class="MsoNormal">There is a fire that has been burning just north of <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Prince Albert</st1:city></st1:place>. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Only one house was lost (the origin of the fire) and no one was hurt.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Here are some of my photos for the paper.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN0u-V2g_FBXMgoaT0mHanQ4tWLk9Ypt31O5ZpAp9x9qqZnRow2nFZNIMSwknC4e3L1Wh2Uvr65s5r7mHYMJSbJVf5atvdurorWSVG2bgATpGDAXrG0gh7-DFBLtY8x9ttJdTboDzDfvE/s1600/IMG_0507+-+Copy.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN0u-V2g_FBXMgoaT0mHanQ4tWLk9Ypt31O5ZpAp9x9qqZnRow2nFZNIMSwknC4e3L1Wh2Uvr65s5r7mHYMJSbJVf5atvdurorWSVG2bgATpGDAXrG0gh7-DFBLtY8x9ttJdTboDzDfvE/s320/IMG_0507+-+Copy.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473579260488116498" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFq-vyyzcAvOf8-XzAgBoz4lWVLbUDUkBFP6uWl3X8pVU2ynPgLBaRFtaaqXrtGzPs0DqWilORYXg_2UtsuL-CDJO_HXCaYGa_qe48mplSnuHNnEtCsP2-8ccE_MA9vf6VQ6O9bB9Y4_Y/s1600/IMG_0595+-+Copy.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFq-vyyzcAvOf8-XzAgBoz4lWVLbUDUkBFP6uWl3X8pVU2ynPgLBaRFtaaqXrtGzPs0DqWilORYXg_2UtsuL-CDJO_HXCaYGa_qe48mplSnuHNnEtCsP2-8ccE_MA9vf6VQ6O9bB9Y4_Y/s320/IMG_0595+-+Copy.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473579632275581986" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZS_V5BPWXXwokDtQeoLDJpDfrrm9hyphenhyphenADkrWmAe9Fxaq6KOlsiqqfjq47c_4wcTDl92dpZAJvq_ijat0k71S_5OuNYNyQJSt_jvtt86_wtwhYaTIa-yW9TfNjlwUns14YMQIRcMUbr_-U/s1600/IMG_0634+-+Copy.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZS_V5BPWXXwokDtQeoLDJpDfrrm9hyphenhyphenADkrWmAe9Fxaq6KOlsiqqfjq47c_4wcTDl92dpZAJvq_ijat0k71S_5OuNYNyQJSt_jvtt86_wtwhYaTIa-yW9TfNjlwUns14YMQIRcMUbr_-U/s320/IMG_0634+-+Copy.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473580358693889074" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCtjvB_HBhR4SQXQ6gTZosJemnDnYH158rgaBgul0iH5I_JXcExPh7N6Q_tVY0a46_-wFjfAq21hf9K9r2WYTSlKeke-qy2ndV44Rwb0Uypcc4hMaV1aWyZ9AHUJJBkWmRSzPafT0Nu2s/s1600/IMG_0627+-+Copy.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCtjvB_HBhR4SQXQ6gTZosJemnDnYH158rgaBgul0iH5I_JXcExPh7N6Q_tVY0a46_-wFjfAq21hf9K9r2WYTSlKeke-qy2ndV44Rwb0Uypcc4hMaV1aWyZ9AHUJJBkWmRSzPafT0Nu2s/s320/IMG_0627+-+Copy.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473580001175285074" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkc3hFvysQzNLHztlFY6IeehozHYSeaGV7sFYsz3EHPgeN3SG4N9FV0o9W_cNM2pdoL-M1qqcFv3oOwhlcRf9-NNGgXwuDVPolDLDn_l2pwrwWDgo8_9T00HnET5Y3DkRTeHhql6IqZ2M/s1600/IMG_0529+-+Copy.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 228px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkc3hFvysQzNLHztlFY6IeehozHYSeaGV7sFYsz3EHPgeN3SG4N9FV0o9W_cNM2pdoL-M1qqcFv3oOwhlcRf9-NNGgXwuDVPolDLDn_l2pwrwWDgo8_9T00HnET5Y3DkRTeHhql6IqZ2M/s320/IMG_0529+-+Copy.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473578957386307858" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1806205412081322364.post-59056957995055563972010-05-19T22:12:00.001-07:002010-05-19T22:12:55.546-07:00Oil SpillsEver since I was a kid I’ve thought the worst thing that could happen to the ocean was an oil spill.<br />The images on TV of people soaping up birds after the Exxon Valdez oil spill forever stuck in my mind.<br />Even as an adult I feel badly when I hear about after math of the explosion of the British Petroleum rig located off the coast of Louisiana. <br />According to press reports, “The Gulf Coast is experiencing an ecological disaster … Coastal areas outside of the immediate spill region will be impacted too.”<br />Reuters warns that some oil is in the Loop Current already "which could carry the oil down to the Florida Keys, Cuba, and East Coast."<br />It’s horrifying to think of all the beautiful water tainted by oil, but I also hope this will open people’s eyes<br />In North America we use so much oil and yet so many people life their lives without a thought of how it gets to their cars or how else it’s used as energy.<br />Around the globe people experience the negative effects of the over consumption of petroleum by the developed world.<br />Photographs in an exhibition called War Photo, show the mess in Nigeria, where Shell has operated for years with out regard for the environment or human lives — spills that continue for weeks, making farming in impossible, flames burning from leaks and a slick covering the top of bodies of water.<br />There is so much damage that will be done by this latest of oil spills but maybe it will be the thing that finally shows people why they need to reduce dependency, why alternative energies should be looked at and what goes on in the rest of the world.Angelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10776450090115448465noreply@blogger.com0