Highs:
A good meeting Friday with my org, looks like they might be following some of my suggestions, but may just be holding out a carrot to fool me.
Lows:
Biogas outlook looks troublesome, my org just isn't strong enough of an organization to support the kind of project that I want to build. Struggling with isolation in the village.
What I Did:
Worked on biogas design, had a pre term meeting with my org on Friday, and read about 5-10 hours a day.
On the Agenda:
In the office Monday preparing some notes for the upcoming monthly meeting with my org, Tuesday is the monthly meeting, and after the meeting I leave for the All Volunteer Conference at Ridar hotel.
What I'm Reading:
Finished Larson's The Girl Who Played With Fire and read half of The Hobbit by Tolkien. I'm not crazy about The Millennium Trilogy but find them entertaining enough to finish. I'm very disappointed by The Hobbit. I haven't read it in 15 years and don't remember it being written as a children's book. The style is very similar to C.S. Lewis, with narration addressing the reader like a child. Still I wanted to brush up on it before the movies are released. I hope to finish it before the All Vol Conference.
Ugandan Annoyance of the Week:
Ugandans give all the power to the salesmen, and don't seize any powers as consumers. I was in the taxi park yesterday trying to get a Mutatu to drop me off in my village. A mini bus to Masaka costs 10,000 shillings and car to my village costs 3000 from there. A bus to Mbarara (100k past my site) is 15,000 shillings and will stop at my village if I pay full price. A Mutatu going to Lyantonde (40 k past my site on the way to Mbarara) was running for 20,000 shillings and the Ugandans were paying it, and they wanted me to pay 20,000 to get dropped off at my village. The trend of driver's being in charge, not the riders is just one illustration that this country isn't ready to develop, the people aren't willing to stand up to any entrenched interest.
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