Coffee Houses

The whole shebang is a bit all over the place. In terms of where we are with respect to projects, Axel, Kris and I have finished our outboard motors and the whole Warwick Uni Crew has been reunited and work has begun on our hydro project. Today was the second day (Blipping chronologically is much more sensible but far too mainstream.

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Should have chosen a better picture to be number 200, shouldn't I.....

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I can't quite justify a link between today's Uganthem and what we did, but this song needs to be shared. Keep in mind that this song was heard multiple times whilst we were out there... We didn't know Uganda was so big for Shania Twain

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Today was more interesting than yesterday. We were split in to two groups and we travelled off road to go and see a previous year's hydro project. Bloody impressive is a succinct summary of what it's like. It's in the middle of no where and trying to fathom how they made it happen hits home how hard development is here.

We learned more about the project and whilst we were waiting for our turn in the power house I got a chance to take a load more 'African Child' shots. They're very inquisitive and photogenic as hell. After the informal briefing we headed to check out our rivers for the first time, but it was a little bit "This is your river... Okay, let's go."

Back at the hostel we got to wait around whilst the second group went out to see what we had seen (that's the plus of being the advance party). A lot of table tennis got played.

The hostel had a table tennis table in the common room. We very quickly discovered that everybody has incredibly mis-spent youths as we were all much better than a group of 'randomly' chosen people should be. Maybe engineers like table tennis.

Kris and I spent a while talking about the art, science and beauty of learning new things and practise. We hold similar opinions on the topic but it seems that it can really split the camp between those who believe in 'naturals' and those who believe in 'deliberate practise'. I find the whole thing fascinating, either way.

After dinner we just chilled out and played more table tennis. Nothing spectacular happened.

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Whilst we were visiting the hydro project we walked around the town to see what was there. Lots of coffee is grown in Uganda (although trying to find a decent cup of it anywhere is bloody impossible) and this was a roasting house. Outside there was a large matt covered in coffee beans that had just been picked and were drying and this was inside where they got sorted and roasted. This was a shot that I 'saw' as soon as I laid my eyes upon it. I thought low-key would suit it very well and I think it does, but I'm not sure the execution was quite what it needed to be.