updates
on Random Uganda (Uganda), 17/May/2010 12:22, 34 days ago
a lioness in the Serengeti enjoys a little fresh gnu.for more pictures of the serengetia mommy and baby black rhino in Ngorongorofor more pictures of Ngorongoro craterYes, it has been a long time. I even managed to forget my password, so for a moment there it looked like the very future of this blog was in jeopardy. But even with the password, I am sorry to report that the future of this blog remains perilous. I am scheduled to leave Uganda on May 28th. I will be back at work, in the Emergency Department on June 7th (those of you who live in the San Francisco bay area may want to be extra careful the second week of June). I am thinking that it will be difficult to continue Random Uganda from a coffee shop in Noe Valley. But maybe those of you who remain in Uganda can send me pictures and stories of random events and we can keep it alive. I’ll let you think about that.So I’m back at work. Or at least we’ll say, back at the office. I think Nancy had a good visit. But maybe you should ask her. I certainly had a great time touring Uganda and Tanzania with her.On the housing front. I have finally moved down to VSO village into a 2 bedroom apartment with Richard and Pat. Richard and Pat are in Lira most of the time, however, so I have the place pretty much to myself. But the apartment is in compound where Alison and Alan and Jeanne and Roger live and next door to the compound where Diane and Stacey live, so I haven’t been too lonely.But in a classic finish to the gong show that has been the management of my housing, the HR office didn’t tell my housemate Cara that she was to move out until after they’d left for the airport to pick up Prasandan and his family. So basically she was given 40 minutes to pack. And the housing that they had decided to move her to was the guest house at Ian’s, where Prasandan was staying, except that Prasandan hadn’t moved his stuff out of there yet. Nancy and I had stopped by the house to pick up some laundry from Grace during the fiasco, so Nancy got to meet Dorothy as she stood scowling in the door. Up until that time, Nancy would later comment, she had been under the impression that the Ugandans were a universally polite and gracious people.In an update on the posting about the Rwenzoris. Apparently the main icecap/glacier on Margherita peak just recently split in half, making it impossible to climb that peak at the moment. Sorry guys, you may have to wait until the glaciers fully melt (sometime in the next 20-40 years) before you can climb it.For more info on the Margherita glacier.