Movement Of Personnel
Jun. 13th, 2006 10:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amalthyaTuesday 9 am
Well, I picked up my MOP from the UN office yesterday which means I'm definitely set to fly on Friday the 16th. I'll be back in Uganda for another 2-3 weeks and come back here to Goma on the 7th of July.
Having that all set somehow makes me more aware of the "end date" approaching -- I guess having marked events in my calendar that are in July at all are striking.
Goma seems so much different now than it did just 2-3 months ago. I'm constantly aware of the quantity of white people walking down the street, taking motos, eating at restaurants, watching the World Cup. I've compared it recently to rats emerging after a nuclear disaster -- I mean, Goma must be safer with all these bazungu running around, right?
To be honest, I liked it better before. It doesn't mean that I'm any less tired of the begging though. Having a street kid asking is one thing, but having a well-dressed clean schoolgirl utter "give me money" before even a Hello is just repugnant.
Having Carol back again has been great too. We went to the Nyira last night for dinner (spinach lasagna) and everyone was watching the World Cup on the tiniest, teeniest TV imaginable. It's such a cohesive activity in Africa -- I recall my time in Kenya when Senegal was doing well, and the Kenyans were going WILD!
I doubt half of them even knew where Senegal is, but it didn't matter. It's such a change to USfootball soccer, where the only people I know who really pay attention to it at all are ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kthrin and kawaiiryuko.
Willi is itching to watch a match with me in Kampala that features the US team, which I learned yesterday is actually a decent team, and none of the players are American female soccer players in disguise. That's so encouraging to hear!
If only Americans cared.
Well, I picked up my MOP from the UN office yesterday which means I'm definitely set to fly on Friday the 16th. I'll be back in Uganda for another 2-3 weeks and come back here to Goma on the 7th of July.
Having that all set somehow makes me more aware of the "end date" approaching -- I guess having marked events in my calendar that are in July at all are striking.
Goma seems so much different now than it did just 2-3 months ago. I'm constantly aware of the quantity of white people walking down the street, taking motos, eating at restaurants, watching the World Cup. I've compared it recently to rats emerging after a nuclear disaster -- I mean, Goma must be safer with all these bazungu running around, right?
To be honest, I liked it better before. It doesn't mean that I'm any less tired of the begging though. Having a street kid asking is one thing, but having a well-dressed clean schoolgirl utter "give me money" before even a Hello is just repugnant.
Having Carol back again has been great too. We went to the Nyira last night for dinner (spinach lasagna) and everyone was watching the World Cup on the tiniest, teeniest TV imaginable. It's such a cohesive activity in Africa -- I recall my time in Kenya when Senegal was doing well, and the Kenyans were going WILD!
I doubt half of them even knew where Senegal is, but it didn't matter. It's such a change to US
kthrin and kawaiiryuko. Willi is itching to watch a match with me in Kampala that features the US team, which I learned yesterday is actually a decent team, and none of the players are American female soccer players in disguise. That's so encouraging to hear!
If only Americans cared.
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Date: 2006-06-14 07:29 am (UTC)