Stones and Steel

Chameleon Season: These days the chameleons are plenty and its always amazing to watch them cautiously move at the pace of a sloth as you stand and watch them, but the moment that you walk away they then begin to speed up and move away! Though this one is not camouflaged so much, others that I've seen can hardly be noticed as they appear more like a tree branch or a leaf.

(from left: Fr Anthony Bukyanagandi, Daniel Koza)
Floor Installment at St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church: Thanks to the gracious support for the second year running of St. Joseph's Catholic School in Vancouver, Washington. With this latest bout of intense fundraising, the students were able to raise enough to lay a cement floor in the church. I have to admit that I was astonished when I first saw the completed work. The floor opens the room up so more, makes the environment so much more clean, and is a much more sanitary environment than the previous dirt floor. Here I am posing with Fr. Anthony Bukyanagandi, parish chaplain.

(from left: Kirya Robert, Daniel Koza)
Keepin' it Classy: While the NTC, Kaliro football team was competing against NTC, Kabale in Arua town, Kirya Robert and myself were keeping it real on the sidelines supporting the team. Though the match ended in a draw, the team played well and went on to play again in the evening.

(from left—all on my Athletics Team: Kirya Robert, Daniel Koza, (top) Kongai Caroline, (bottom) Arudo Anna Grace, Lubega Matias)

End of Games: Well the Intercollegiate Games being held in Arua at NTC, Muni began on the 17th of April and ended on the 20th of April, and while our teams did not perform to the level that many of us had anticipated, I have to say that I am so proud of all of the sports persons at NTC, Kaliro—from the Netballers, Volleyballers, Footballers, Athletes as well as Mr. Isabirye, Mr. Awiyo and Ms. Sarah—all of you put in so much work to compete in this competition. I am most proud though of my athletes (track and field participants). Acting as the Athletics coach at the college was tough, spending many early mornings and late evenings out on the pitch training and many nights sleeping restlessly as we had to cut very qualified individuals as the team was limited by numbers. I will be sad not to be around to coach this next academic year when the teams will travel to NTC, Kabale, in southwestern Uganda.

Playlist of the Moment:
Track Title—Artist
1. Architects and Engineers—Guster
2. Home is a Fire—Death Cab for Cutie
3. Runaway—The National
4. Love Is All—The Tallest Man on Earth
5. Twilight Galaxy—Metric
6. Mayday—Dispatch
7. Life Is Simple In The Moonlight—The Strokes
8. Fake Empire—The National
9. You Are a Tourist—Death Cab for Cutie
10.Brick By Brick—Train
11.Burden of Tomorrow—The Tallest Man on Earth
12.This Ain't Goodbye—Train
13.Lemonworld—The National
14.A Little's Enough—Angels and Airwaves
15.Meyrin Fields—Broken Bells
16.Pieces of What—MGMT
17.Good For Great—Matt & Kim


Websites of the Moment:
http://www.monitor.co.ug
http://www.newvision.co.ug

(Always good to check out those websites, especially these days with the 'Walk-to-Work' protests with Besigye and the recent swearing-in/government expenditures by Museveni)



Stones and Steel


Blink, don't blink
It moves and moves
Even in slow motion
You'll miss it
Pictures you take
Only blank captures
Of scriptures foreign
Becoming so dark

Shake, don't shake
It's still, so still
Lacking momentum
You make believe
Sites discovered
Through imagination
Places uncovered
And covered again

There's a fire
Burning the walls
Burning the falls
There's a fire
That you sit around
And you close your eyes
There's a fire and
All the pictures
All the sites
Slow down
They're real
There's a fire
Feel the warmth

There's a fire
There's a fire
There's a fire