Beautiful

Walking out the door
I find the skies
Caught my eyes
And I want more

Someday I'll return
Find you gone
When it's all done
I'll cure that burn

But when it comes down to this
The best thing that we can all do
Is to try, and do and live for ourselves
Leaving you alone is not what I meant
Because in leaving you found yourself
So let's try this again and see anew

Call with no answer
Losing the hope
You have no scope
To be a dancer

On the day I come
You've found yourself
Our things on the shelf
That'll be our sum

But when it comes down to this
The best thing that we can all do
Is to try, and do and live for ourselves
Leaving you alone is not what I meant
Because in leaving you found yourself
So let's try this again and see anew

Marching Bands of Kampala: The Last Year in Motion

Marching Bands of Kampala
Walking from the taxi park up to Kampala road one day I heard a lot of commotion...tada! A Marching Band was walking right down Kampala road! This happens, oddly enough, from time to time that a marching band for some cause or another is just cruising on down the road. Actually I get excited every time I do see this, but the sound that is being produced (much to the sad condition most of the instruments are in) is as if it has come from some 1960s Soviet Propaganda film...





Driving to Kaliro
This is just a short clip of the drive between Iganga and Kaliro. Not much to it, just givin' you all a little glimpse what the villages look like.




A Rainy NTC, Kaliro
From my office window, I became stuck for a few hours until I could go home because of the torrents of rain that were disturbing me!




Dancing
In my first few weeks here at the National Teachers' College, Kaliro, I was treated to nearly 8 hours (it was a long day indeed) of the music students of NTC, Kaliro performing for their end of year exams. This is just a short little clip, but believe me when I tell you I have nearly 3 hours of footage from this day!




The Library at NTC, Kaliro
This is the library at NTC, Kaliro. Also this video was taken just after we began to transport all the textbooks donated graciously to the college by KPCB and Mari Baker.




Burn Piles
Just me...burning my trash...acting dumb like I usually do.

Sunsets and Textbooks

Local Brew Break:
Lisa, myself and some of the staff at the National Teachers College, Kaliro are taking an evening to relax from our busy days out and about. We are drinking local brew (malwa) which is made from millet and drank from a communal pot with long straws. The local brew, especially to someone who has not become accustomed to the taste might describe the taste as warm, watery bread, but many people after taking a few times find at least some pleasure in relaxing and bantering over some malwa. These drinking circles often last for hours...




New Books:
After transporting the books to the Library at the NTC, Kaliro, many staff and students took an opportunity to get themselves acquainted with the new materials. Next to me are the librarians whom were marking the books with the college's stamp so that they are officially marked as being owned by the college, so to avoid unwarranted theft of the materials. NOTE: I was not intending to be pointing at the camera, the picture was just taken at the most inopportune time!




Students Aiding with Book Donation
Thanks to the many efforts of the people at KPCB and Mari Baker, a generous donation of textbooks was awarded to the National Teachers' College, Kaliro. Here we have a number of students taking time out of their day to help with transporting and organising the books at the college. The excitement on their faces in peering in to the bags was amazing and seeing these students (and staff) so enthralled in new materials was incredible.




Sunset over the River Nile:
The River Nile and its Mother Sun setting...I think that is all I need to say.