September 2011
18 posts
What do you do when your boyfriend of 6-years...
Those are three questions that I’ve been struggling with the past week and a half or so.
This blog has largely been about Burundi. It really hasn’t gotten very personal, and I’ve tried to stay away from work. But the end of a 6-year relationship has (perhaps quite obviously) jumped to the forefront of my Burundi experience.
I’ll refrain from sharing the details of my...
For your reading pleasure: The Walkabout... →
Recently I was lucky enough to meet Dany Kamaro, a Burundian living in Tanzania — who thankfully has a blog so that I don’t have to go through withdrawals between his visits to his family in Buja.
I’m linking to his blog partly because it’s lovely to read — just lovely — but also, in an attempt to peer pressure him to blog more. We’ll see how it works...
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A Lost Little Lark: Of Crosses & Cassava →
Another GHC fellow, Melyn, does a great job of describing rural Burundi — and some of the nutritional challenges people are facing. Totally worth reading.
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This story also appears in Kigutu Stories
The road to Kigutu curls through groves of palm trees and arches over a series of steep hills. In recognition of the services provided by Village Health Works, the Burundian...
Welcome to the wild, wild west
It seems to me that there are a few obvious reasons that Burundi and Rwanda should be pretty similar: close proximity, almost identical physical size, terrain and climate, extremely high population density, very rural populations, similar ethnic groups, and a shared history of ethic conflict – just to name a few. (Note: Although many argue that Burundi’s “crisis” in ’94 did not constitute genocide...
“I don’t know what to do: no power at the clinic, no internet connection at...”
– -A text from my boss, as we scrambled to get a report out. Well, no one ever said it would be easy to do business in Burundi.
WatchAnd for good measure… Byeeeeeeeeeee! (Thanks for visiting.)
Le Big Al (sniff... tear)
Sunday was an immensely tragic day. It marked the end of Le Cervoise — the very best burger place in Buja. This (of course) meant that Saturday night we crossed every imaginable obstacle (not remembering where Le Cervoise was without Simone in the car, rudely blowing off friends we had planned to have Ethiopian food with — and who were already at the restaurant, exhaustion from a long...
WatchI want to share with you all a small glimpse of the Kamenge Choir (mentioned in the top 10 things about Bujumbura living) and definitely the best part of my new job.
But really, this video is misleading. In reality, the singing starts slowly as you enter the neighborhood — the first yard of children signaling the next — until one, by one, they’ve joined each other in several...
“Portland… Portland… Isn’t there a television show about that...”
– -Burundian man, currently living in Tanzania. Oh, Portland. How your reputation proceeds you.
