A quick catch up

The Pakistani peacekeepers (my neighbors), have been practicing the bagpipes and marching drums; a church nearly moved into my neighborhood, but after nearly 48 hours of Pentecostal enthusiasm, they seem to have disappeared—though at one point, sometime around day break, they began to sing proper Congolese melodies, haunting beautiful and soft; Rwandair published an article on Gustav the crocodile, complete with pictures; I was caught (again) on the wrong side of some sort of security incident in town, and rather than be evacuated by the extraction team, I had to spend the night in perhaps the nicest hotel of my life; I went to Cape Town and Came back….



I’ve only just noticed that I haven’t really kept up with this blog, I suppose I’ve been too busy living my life to write about it post-hoc. Nevertheless, I’m writing now and all I really have to say is that, as usual, so much has happened, so many strange and wonderful encounters, so many frustrations, so much more than I could possibly get into a brief comment about ‘my life’.






For now then, let it be known that I’m leaving the heart of Darkness, and heading back to Vancouver. I’m putting together a number of ‘top ten’ lists, an exercise in thinking and reflecting about the positive aspects of the last year—cynicism is easy, and lately me and my colleagues have tended to be particularly critical—so top ten lists and some serious thought about what I’m leaving here, what I’m taking away, and why, in 5 years, I could come back and find that nothing has changed…

For those of you who I have somehow managed to exclude from my contact list (my accident of course!) and might be in the pacific north west early summer, I plan to be back in the ‘couve hopefully by the end of may, ish allah.

Please, also, read the zizke quote in the entry below…it captures something I thought it particularly striking…


Pics--Cape Good hope, Cape Good hope again, and an the sun rising over Glen Cairn.