Power outages every day in Kampala and Tororo. Strangely enough, it’s a similar cause as the ones in Tanzania – ‘budget shortage.’ Here it’s because all the budget for electricity was spent on President Museveni’s re-election campaign. Tonight, I was drinking tea and chatting with my colleage/room mate because both our computers had ran out of batteries. Good does come out of seemingly bad happenings. The concept of “opportunity costs” pops up in the most unexpected places. In this case, […]
Sorry I haven’t posted in a while. Here are some thoughts I’ve had recently. I really want to take a soil management for agriculture class. I want to know how to conserve soil, how to know what kind of crops are good to plant where, how to build up the organic matter. A focus on soil quality is the basis of all kinds of sustainable farming practices. No soil, no food. It would also help me a lot in the […]
I was going to write my feelings about the Olympics before it started, but then I decided I would wait until the end so I would be better informed. Here it is. As many of my friends knew or sensed, I am not a big fan of the Olympics. Neither was I of the summer one in Beijing. Many asked why, and for the first time in my life, I truly felt it was hard to express my opinions. Trust […]
