I’m taking the two winners of the “Win-a-Trip contest” to [Africa's] Great Lakes region, where at least five million people have died in what is sometimes called the continent’s first world war.
There's a page and video about the winners at link.
From the video of the winners I can't help but pity Nick Kristof. There's the annoying Asian girl (it's all about changing the world, reducing inequities!) to the guy with the weird speech pattern and accent. Of course they could both be gregarious people but they sure don't seem like it from the video.
Don't forget the African pathogens. A local girl from British Columbia had the same high aspirations for Africa, and went for a visit recently. I'd read that she'd gone to Nairobi, Kenya, but on rereading the article found she'd then went on to the island of Zanzibar, went swimming, and contracted a bacterium that began eating her eyes. The best the local medical clinic could do was to put her on a puddle jumper to Dar Es Salaam, whose doctors suggested she make every attempt to reach a Canadian hospital while she still had her eyes in their sockets, and that she hurry. The young girl, blind at this point, was lucky that there was a Canadian consulate office in Dar Es Salaam, and one of the officials escorted her on a flight back to Vancouver. Two cornea transplants later the young lady has a good chance of regaining much of her eyesight.
There's a page and video about the winners at link.
ReplyDeleteFrom the video of the winners I can't help but pity Nick Kristof. There's the annoying Asian girl (it's all about changing the world, reducing inequities!) to the guy with the weird speech pattern and accent. Of course they could both be gregarious people but they sure don't seem like it from the video.
Oh please. Looks great on a resume for college, and I doubt the NYT reporter's actually getting his companion killed. This isn't Doctor Who.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget to pack your AK and machete!
ReplyDelete"the continent’s first world war": more and more I read what people write and decide that they must be setting some sort of Philosophy exam.
ReplyDeleteAnd what's second prize?
ReplyDeleteAn all-expense paid trip to a lovely nation people once called Kampuchea to see, in person, the handiwork of a certain Mr. Pot.
It's only the less intelligent asians that fall for the inequality crap.
ReplyDeleteThe more itelligent ones know who is winning here, but they might not be above fanning the flames.
The continent's first world war?
ReplyDeleteThe ghosts of the askaris who served von Lettow-Vorbeck and the the troops of the King's African Rifles might disagree with that comment.
Don't forget the African pathogens.
ReplyDeleteA local girl from British Columbia had the same high aspirations for Africa, and went for a visit recently. I'd read that she'd gone to Nairobi, Kenya, but on rereading the article found she'd then went on to the island of Zanzibar, went swimming, and contracted a bacterium that began eating her eyes. The best the local medical clinic could do was to put her on a puddle jumper to Dar Es Salaam, whose doctors suggested she make every attempt to reach a Canadian hospital while she still had her eyes in their sockets, and that she hurry. The young girl, blind at this point, was lucky that there was a Canadian consulate office in Dar Es Salaam, and one of the officials escorted her on a flight back to Vancouver. Two cornea transplants later the young lady has a good chance of regaining much of her eyesight.