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Uganda Days 60 & 61: Two Months

I nearly forgot to write this! Just a quick little update. The past two days have mostly been a whole lot of nothing. At work, we haven't been doing anything terribly interesting—just working from the office, no interviews this week. Although I will say, all of a sudden there are a thousand things to do at work and seemingly not enough time to do them! It's going to be a very busy final few weeks at FHRI, that's for sure. ...

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Uganda Days 53-57: Safari in Murchison Falls

I only got home from Murchison Falls yesterday (Sunday) evening, but already the weekend feels like it was ages ago. Isn’t it strange how something so recent can so quickly assume the guise of memory? It tends to happen when the transition from one thing to the next is sudden and stark—yesterday I was twenty feet from a herd of elephants, and today I got up and went to work, almost as if the weekend never happened. But of course, it did happen, and it was amazing! ...

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Uganda Days 52 & 53: First Police Visit

I tried to do write a post last night, but both my computer and the internet decided to have a meltdown. So here we are instead, two days in one!

As I mentioned in the last post, Wednesday morning I had to get up bright and early so that I could get to work in time to leave for an event. I was going with another person in my division, Rebecca. I arrived before 8 (which is when we were planning to leave), but then there were no drivers around. ...

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