Archive for the ‘Africa 08’ Category
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boat ride…
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Fire Robin – our friend that goes around burning everything he can for five months straight popped up at the lodge this afternoon looking for company. He invited all of us to go back to his place, take a boat ride to horseshoe to have some sundowners and then come back for dinner. Didn’t sound […]
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a soccer-filled saturday afternoon…
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
A Saturday afternoon, with the sun high in the sky, and the glare off the sand so bright that you still squint behind a pair of sunglasses (or at least I assume you would considering I had “misplaced” mine at the time). The objective of the afternoon was to conduct a soccer training session with […]
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round in circles…
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Luke and I decided to make the rounds of the different government ministries in Katima today to see what type of information and data we could find about the study region. It’s funny the way things work here -, the first ministry we went to there were a couple people just standing outside. We walked […]
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water woes for the lodge
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
24 hours, that’s all it took. Yesterday we drove down to the airstrip because we heard the water levels had risen. I should preface the next few sentences by saying earlier in the year, due to the amount of rainfall, the airstrip was flooded. The airstrip sits at a slightly lower elevation on the road […]
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tick infestation
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Today was transect reconnaissance day for Luke in that we all piled into the truck to search out sites tied to local land use perceptions to conduct vegetation transects over the coming weeks. There are four of us (Luke, Cerian, and myself plus our friend/assistant, Bennety) plus two local people to drive around scouting these […]
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Crispy Curry
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
We have been alternating between camp cooking and indulgence of being fed at the lodge. Both have their ups and downs – camp cooking is really very good with those of us that know how to cook, is cheaper, and can be very pleasant. Lodge cooking means no effort on the front end or back […]
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driving for an interview…
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
For those of you who don’t know, it’s opposite than the U.S - left side of the road driving and anytime you leave a main road it’s usually through various degrees of sand. I’ve left most of the driving to Jg and Luke b/c, well, why not. But today went out with Bennety and Luke […]
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trees, shrubs, grass
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Yay! The truck has started for a consecutive three days straight now. Quite an achievement. We even managed to get out and do field research yesterday which was a novelty. Hopefully it becomes the norm. Now, to explain a little bit further what Luke and I spend many of our days doing (or hope to […]
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by the way…
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
So, got a request to give a clue as to what I am actually doing over on this side of the world. Considering our truck crapped out again and I have that odd spare moment that is becoming too frequent I figured to oblige the request.
In a nut shell, I am interested in the relative […] -
mark, set, go…um, go?
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Ask anyone who has ever done field work in rural Africa what is the most important piece of equipment and I suspect every time the reply would be a 4×4 truck. Now, one might assume that such a statement has an implied “solid” or “good” or “sturdy-isque” type adjective put in front of 4×4 but […]