Stevi Lynn

The last few days have been a bit harder. Saturday was an odd one. We got up early like 6:30am and headed to Danita and did some filming. The light there was so beautiful. (I think I got some of my best pictures so far) was a nice way to start the day. Seeing the mist rise from the tress and the sun hit it, the light became dense and heavy making the colors stand out even more.
People were getting home from work or just waking up. Kids were getting ready for school (they sometimes have to go to school on the weekend) or playing. It was a nice way to start a day. After we walked around for a while we headed to Walukuba and we started to boil water for the women to have on Sunday it took two hours for it to be done. For the first 24 mins we were in high sprits….. Another 30 passed the ok water id not that fun to watch kidded in. We entertained ourselves with group bonding activates and shrades . 2hours later we all new each other that much more and water boiled.
We got back to the house, but we did not stay that long. We headed to another village to feed kids. Rachel and Arial made juice and had some beans made. It was a crazy time. Kids were constantly pushing and cutting in line trying to steal other kids food. It was a mess. I got really annoyed and frustrated. And felt angry. Then got annoyed at myself for feeling so angry. I was not really sure why I was annoyed. What would have to be annoyed about? But I stepped back and realised that I hated the fact that kids had to behave like that. I hated the fact that they may have not had food in a day or two. By the time we got home I was tired and still slightly frustrated with myself. But was nice that like 300/400 kids got fed.
Sunday we did not really do anything till 2 we went to buy necklaces from Walukuba. That took like 3 hours. Yeah they like to take time on everything. (What else is there to do?) After we bought the necklaces the ladies had elections for the Suubi comity. Think that everyone is happy with the out come as far as I could tell. I enjoy spending time watching them all together, you get to see all their personalities and get to know them as a group.

Monday we started our interviews with the women individually. I really enjoyed talking with the women by themselves and hearing what they had to say. Mama Santa was our guide. We only spoke with four of them and they are each very strong and have gone through a lot. Each of them do not see this as their home and hope to go back north day. Most of them have family still up there and do visit when they can.
I could not really imagine what it would be like to do driven away from your home and leaving your family. They tell us what they have been through with out a lot a feeling, not meaning that in a bad way, but it like a way for them to cope. They seem to be stuck in limbo. They are happy for what they have.


Tuesday was a slower day. We went to Santa’s again and we ended up helping with de shelling G nuts (peanuts) and singing song as we did do. I think we entertained Santa and everyone else with our wonderful voices
We then went back to the village where we fed the kids on Saturday to see Mama Rachel’s house. Her wall fell in (it is made of mud and sticks) we had see it before it. We saw how the whole house was leaning to one side and falling apart. When we got back there the wall had been fix and it smelt so bad, they mix in alcohol (a local brew) in with the mud. not nice at all, but if it works……
We walked through the village to Santa’s sisters house. As we walked through the village it got nicer (well nicer than where we were). By the time we got there we as usual had a ton of kids following us, lucky we had bubbles to keep them occupied.


There is a lot of beauty here, but there is also a of things that can be improved and people that can be helped. I don’t want these people to lose their identity…. Their heritage. I can see a lot of the European influence’s in mostly everything. It’s kinda funny to see and hear them talk cause it is very English, but I can also see the American creeping in two. It is very familiar.