Overview...

What started as an awareness raising and ethnographic styled walk through Sierra Leone, this site now details the encounters of a not so academic academic who spends more time occupying Wall Street and squats than a university...

Monday, November 1, 2010

A moment to measure...

So here we are, today marks two weeks exactly since I arrived here. In that time I have talked to all sorts of people, identified all sorts of opportunities, toured a jam factory, a brick factory, registered a company, found a manager, a board, obtained a verbal agreement for $45,000 of construction equipment, set up the basics for building an athletics track, been on the radio, brought the director of athletics for the entire northern province on board, put in a funding proposal for the athletics facility, found suitable land for the track, had the entire team visit me at home, eaten with my hands (who know's what), had "bush cat", peanut soup, casava stew, rice with everything, been stalked repeatedly by two women, proposed to three times, bitten by multiple mosquitos, said hello to every person in the city, seen a whole wealthy of old american football players (jerseys), and been given a local name meaning "old man"(otim). Lol. Yet I have not done any walking... :-/ i have not even set up my hammock, or tried my new stove. But most worryingly, I havn't been to the top of a mountain yet!! :(

But, who am I to complain though? Something tells me I'm on the right path.. ;) Two months in two weeks... What a run...

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