"Oh when the Reds..." is the war cry that sounded as the Red team - my red team - marched in for our last challenge of survivor during week 2 of training. If you had asked any student 4 days earlier what their take was on training, or Global Challenge for that matter, that theory would most probably have imploded, and rightly so. Survivor came as a shock to us all, having all the tests required for inconvenient circumstances. A box of matches, a knife and one sleeping bag - the 3 luxury items permissible, that we as the...
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The Rundown
You're never going to say it all, but if you want to say most of what moved you and why, it helps to say it soon. The pearl of Africa is an allusion used by many to define Uganda. I often wonder what Jesus meant when he used a similar allusion, "don't throw your pearls before pigs." I have a hunch suggesting pearls and pigs, like light and darkness or good and evil, can't associate with one another. Reflecting on two moments in Uganda, I can't help but recognize what it's like to eat the food of pigs when pearls...
"The reckless truth of travel into countries and cultures far from your own is that sometimes, you're just rolling with the dice. Fate, the tour guide, can lead any traveler, at any moment of the journey, into a labyrinth of learning and love, or the long tunnel of a dangerous adventure. And every traveler knows those moments in the mirror: the last, long look at yourself before Okay, let's do this ." - Gregory David Roberts The two weeks we spent with the Walking with Maasai community was filled with sensational norms like stalking a buffalo and adopting an eland....
