As I travel to the Masai Mara (http://www.masai-mara.com/), Nguruman and some place I don't know how to spell I'll be without internet. I believe a quick update is in order. I may have found a volunteer job here in Mbita working at a health center. More on that as it develops. Also, tonight I had the pleasure of dining with the Mbita District MP Otieno Kajwang' (google him, he's kind of a big deal!). We (me and two other students and two of our field guides) talked at great length about fighting corruption, constitutional reform, health issues, Kenyan politicking, the ups and downs of a coalition party and East-African unity. Apparently there's a fair amount of support growing for the fusion of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda into one super-country, with the old borders serving as states of sorts. Think of it like an advanced EU that might actually do something. I had no idea such a thing was even in the works. I can't really do our conversation justice, but I will say that when I told him Bush's approval rating (we were talking about the role of evangelism in politics at the time) he laughed for a good 5 minutes.
Go McCain!
Anyhow, I'll update again in 11 days with all sorts of cool stories about seeing lions and bargaining for spears that I'll never manage to get through customs.
Cheers
-Dave
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Hi Dave,
Bill Landry was here (Ottawa) for the weekend and pointed me to your blogspot. Great reading! Thanks for sharing your amazing experience.
Bon voyage et à bientôt!
- Diana T.
Can only hope the trip to Masai Mara was not toooo muddy, and that the tent held up. Looking forward to your next missive. thanks. M
Hey Dave!
Your letter from Uganda arrived today. It only took a week to get here. Thank you soooo much!
David Bird is a birding friend of my dad's. He once interviewed my dad for a column he had in the Gazette. I hope you had a good ornithology class with David. Who knew you'd get interested in birds in Africa ... with a friend of the family as your prof!
I had a great time in Ottawa last weekend. I stayed with Penny and Peter. They have a spacious new home outside Almonte, the town outside Ottawa where Nick has his restaurant. We had lunch at Nick's resto, and we also heard him playing drums at the local pub later in the evening :-) I saw Mike and James, too, at their cottage in the countryside in Lanark. The cottage is totally cool - it's an ongoing work in progress. The Peskinds were in Ottawa, too. I saw them briefly at the home of Bob Churchill-Smith and Laurie Gibbons. Alexander Peskind is going to Beijing with his school for two weeks in March!
All goes well here in Montreal. We had 20 cm of snow yesterday and today the temperature was -20 C. Are you missing winter, dude?!
Take care and keep on observing and talking.
With lots of love and affection
Bill xxx
Mail! Mail! Mail!
Thanks for the purdy card. It warmed my heart on this ridiculously cold snow-filled day.
xoxo
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