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During the workshop week, we arranged through Tracy, to be picked up by Kevin, the manager of Kaniyo Pabidi in Budongo Forest. The guards at the checkpoint into the forest like Kevin, and calling him was the only way we could get into KP the previous week, without paying 30 US per person. Tracy told us, that with Kevin we would be fine, and would not need ID badges. I was slightly disappointed that I could put my plan into action, but it would ...

Workshop Week Continued…

A few final thoughts from the actual workshop…

As you can see from the last posting, there is a significant component of our workshop that focuses on teaching methods, including cooperative education, experiential learning and multiple intelligences. Although there was no evidence of a physical means of classroom management, it is entirely possible this was something that the teachers ...

Rationale

Jeffry Sachs, in his book the End of Poverty, describes "the innumerable and unique challenges for modern economic development: disease, drought and distance from world markets to name a few. Adam Smith in his book The Wealth of Nations observed in 1776 that Africa had been poor from time unmemorable, because it lacked the navigable rivers and natural inlets that afford the benefits of low cost sea based trade."

He goes on to describe rural ...

Before the end of the school year, when I was sharing my summer plans with a fellow teacher, a comment was made that I wasn't entirely prepared or able to answer at the time. That comment being: "How can you focus on the environment or an animal, when we are talking about a country and continent where the people are threatened, either by hunger, war or disease?" At the time, I wasn't really certain what exactly I would be taching here, just as I wasn't very familiar with the projects ...

(Happy Anniversary to my husband! I miss you and love you!) Now onto my blog When you travel, you learn that there are topics and words that you just don't want to here. Estimated travel times and the word soon, are two of those examples. We piled into the van at 2 pm, with all of our workshop gear in tow. I joked with Patrick the driver, that he ought to let me drive, and we were all thankful that he said no. Our workshop is in Masindi, but we were to staying at a JGI ...

We began the day with 2 hours ride to Masindi, the biggest city around Murchison Falls National Park. The town, which is made of 4 paved streets in a shape of a rectangle, is what we call a small village in our homeland. Some other streets around the centre are not paved, and made of dust, and peasants live in the mud houses around them. We bought some drinks and snacks for the rest of the day (we have at least 4 more hours until we get to Kampala, still...) and ...

Kaniyo Pabidi Camp, Budongo Forest Reserve Wednesday June 18th, 2008. Chimp Tracking in Kaniyo Pabidi Today's tracking was quite similar to the chimp tracking we did at Kibale Primate Lodge a few days earlier. The briefing was much the same and the forest looked much the same. The big difference was probably that we stuck primarily to the well worn trails that ...

Murchison Falls to Budongo Forest Reserve Tuesday June 17th, 2008. Murchison Falls then drive to Budongo Forest Reserve According to all the books Murchison Falls is one of the must-see attractions in Uganda so of course we had to check it out. There are a few ways to see it but we opted for the small boat from the same place as the ferry the day before. The boat runs upstream on the northern shore and quite close to the shore ...

So coming back from Murchison Falls I headed off to Kampala to meet Carlie. On the way to the airport I had managed to (in actually a rare moment) managed to bargain a good deal for a taxi to take us there and pick us both up. As I explained I was in a rush to try and meet her as she got off the plane. The driver drove like a lunatic and I was "phantom" breaking constantly as he tried to show me the art of overtaking on ...

English is the only official language of Uganda. Given that, it was concerning how incomprehensible to Ugandans we seemed to be (and they to us). I asked the van driver parked at the Red Chilli (www.redchillihideaway.com) if this was the trip to Murchison Falls. "No", he replied. Later, when no other van had arrived (and, like a German beach resort tourist, wanting to snag the best seats), I tried, "So, where is this van going?". "Murchison Falls", was the reply. It was a small ...