Sunday, March 13
We're in Usa River, Tanzania, not far from Mt Kilimanjaro, staying at a Danish-designed centre for Development Studies. It's like being in a mini-IKEA village! We're the only "wuzungu" or white people here. There's a real buzz in the air at every meal in the dining hall...people from all countries in Africa discussing education, agriculture, aid, property rights, etc.
The photo above is the Travellers' Rest Lodge in Mgahinga, in the far SW corner of Uganda. It's the same place that Diann Fossey stayed when she needed a break from her gorilla studies. The lodge is in a small town called Kisoro, where we walked into a coffee shop on the main street and met the owner. She said, "You're from Canada? Not Nova Scotian, are you?" The young woman in the shop with her was from Hants County and went to Hants East Highschool. I couldn't believe it. She'd been teaching in Kampala, and married a Scottish anthropologist who works with the Batwa (Pygmy) people. Small world, for sure.
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