I'm back! I survived my week of camping, and even enjoyed the peace and quiet. I'm sitting here listening to my neighbors' weekly skype call to his sister in Texas, and looking forward to the end of the CSI episode that they were watching before it was time for their skype call. I need to know what happens at the end! And I'm reminded of why the village was so nice - the only thing that really disturbed my thoughts were the pesky roosters. There were a lot of roosters on the compound where we stayed, but somehow, roosters are easier to block out than neighbours :(
Anyway, let me do my best to ignore the Texans who are shouting into their computer 10 feet from my bedroom...
I will write a proper post for my trip once I get the photos sorted a bit. I took several hundred photos - gack! I had no idea I was taking so many until my memory card got filled up. Good thing I still had my extra memory card in my camera case! I was amazed to realize that we were the first people from our organization to visit this village since the mid-1990's. This translation and literacy project has been going on for over 20 years, and not a single consultant has gone to visit them since the first linguist went there in the 1990's. Granted, there was a war going on until a few years ago, making it rather difficult to travel there. I did try to get there 2 years ago, to train some teachers, but we were defeated by the muddy, terrible road at that point.
Since then, they've built an airstrip! So we flew in with MAF, and they came and fetched us back yesterday.
But man, it is a remote place. Remote, remote. But beautiful, and the people were friendly, and we really had a wonderful time. And once I've rested up a bit more, I shall write about the week!
Anyway, let me do my best to ignore the Texans who are shouting into their computer 10 feet from my bedroom...
I will write a proper post for my trip once I get the photos sorted a bit. I took several hundred photos - gack! I had no idea I was taking so many until my memory card got filled up. Good thing I still had my extra memory card in my camera case! I was amazed to realize that we were the first people from our organization to visit this village since the mid-1990's. This translation and literacy project has been going on for over 20 years, and not a single consultant has gone to visit them since the first linguist went there in the 1990's. Granted, there was a war going on until a few years ago, making it rather difficult to travel there. I did try to get there 2 years ago, to train some teachers, but we were defeated by the muddy, terrible road at that point.
Since then, they've built an airstrip! So we flew in with MAF, and they came and fetched us back yesterday.
But man, it is a remote place. Remote, remote. But beautiful, and the people were friendly, and we really had a wonderful time. And once I've rested up a bit more, I shall write about the week!
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