Increasingly more random... and far less Uganda.
on Random Uganda (Uganda), 12/Nov/2010 20:09, 34 days ago
It's pretty sad when a blog that is already languishing in obscurity gets ignored by the only person who reads it (and writes it), soo.... I'm back.For those of you who were wondering if I got lost on Bota somewhere on a muddy dirt backroad in Namuwongo and couldn't get back on the internet, no, my time with VSO expired (some might say that maybe I wore out my welcome) and I had to go back to the states to face the harsh realities of life in the developed world.I would like to say that the reason I haven't made it back to the blog for nearly 5 months is that I have been horribly busy putting my experience and insights gained as a VSO volunteer in Kampala to work solving the American crisis in healthcare, but no, I'm afraid that I've been hiding in the basement of our Noe Valley cottage catching up on missed Glee episodes and steeling myself for my next visit to the olive oil aisle at Whole Foods.Not that I haven't been working. At the moment I am working part time for 2 different emergency departments--one in Daly City (just south of San Francisco) and the other in Burien (just south of Seattle). Not only does this make for an interesting commute, but it means that I could be working more than full time (if I were french and subject to the 4 day work week), something I have spent the entirety of my adult life trying to avoid.Well, actually, at this exact moment I am hanging in Ottawa—capitol of that big country to the north of us. I am here for the CUSO-VSO reintegration weekend. This evening, along with singing kum-ba-ya and other touchy feely things yet to be announced, I am supposed to talk about the ‘one thing’ that I remember most from my time in Uganda…Show and tell was never my forte.So I’ve been reading through my blog and scrolling through the 100+ gigabytes of still as yet unedited photos of Uganda and trying to find my ‘one thing.’ This is pretty much like letting a kid loose in the candy store and telling him to pick out one thing. OK. So, it’s pretty much like letting me loose in a candy store. Sometimes, like when you’re bouncing between rooms in a packed ED at 3 in the morning, having ADHD is a blessing. This is not one of those times.For those of you who have actually read this, does‘one thing’ stand out?Let me know.