I am delirious. I'll start by throwing that little waiver out there. I am trying to figure out how to start a blog, what should be interesting enough to go into a blog, and how I can lure my unsuspecting acquaintances, friends, family, and pets into reading said blog. The hardest part was trying to figure out a title to get this party started. "What is true" seems fitting, because, really, that's all I'm ever trying to elucidate. I can't guarantee that "what is true"will necessarily be true to you, but that's why it's my blog! If I'm ever wondering what to share, I can ask myself, "What is true?" and go from there.
I warn you, this may start out kind of rough. My prose is suffering from years of neglect. I tend to write like I talk, and me not always talk pretty.
So-- why am I delirious? I'll get to that eventually. But I am realizing more and more that it's a bit tricky to say goodbye, or 'farewell-for-a-while' to a lot of people I love. I am starting to see that a lot of people love me back. It makes me happy, and sad, and happy. And sad. I am looking forward to the next 6 months and/or year of adventures in Uganda, but wistfully glancing around at the life I am leaving behind. I think most of the loose ends have been tied, or at least knotted, and nothing's going to spontaneously combust in my absence.... but I still have to let go of all those threads.
For those of you who are still wondering what all this fuss is about, I am moving to Kampala for a sales consultant job with Volcanoes Safaris, a company specializing in great apes tours and safaris by way of luxury eco-lodges located within natural expanses along western Uganda and Rwanda, such as Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Even that park name sounds cool, like some fairy-tale forest that is impossible to enter.
I am going to try and post weekly... if not more.... I kind of need to see what life is like there, and if my electrical converter will allow me to literally get plugged in. Soon there will be concrete divulgences of my new Ugandan life. At some point thereafter there will probably be painful admittance of complete naiveté. Eventually there will be pictures. And there will most definitely be emoticons... sorry.
Stay tuned :.)
I warn you, this may start out kind of rough. My prose is suffering from years of neglect. I tend to write like I talk, and me not always talk pretty.
So-- why am I delirious? I'll get to that eventually. But I am realizing more and more that it's a bit tricky to say goodbye, or 'farewell-for-a-while' to a lot of people I love. I am starting to see that a lot of people love me back. It makes me happy, and sad, and happy. And sad. I am looking forward to the next 6 months and/or year of adventures in Uganda, but wistfully glancing around at the life I am leaving behind. I think most of the loose ends have been tied, or at least knotted, and nothing's going to spontaneously combust in my absence.... but I still have to let go of all those threads.
For those of you who are still wondering what all this fuss is about, I am moving to Kampala for a sales consultant job with Volcanoes Safaris, a company specializing in great apes tours and safaris by way of luxury eco-lodges located within natural expanses along western Uganda and Rwanda, such as Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Even that park name sounds cool, like some fairy-tale forest that is impossible to enter.
I am going to try and post weekly... if not more.... I kind of need to see what life is like there, and if my electrical converter will allow me to literally get plugged in. Soon there will be concrete divulgences of my new Ugandan life. At some point thereafter there will probably be painful admittance of complete naiveté. Eventually there will be pictures. And there will most definitely be emoticons... sorry.
Stay tuned :.)
