Tusaba gavumenti etuyambe

Hazy morning today in Kampala! They say it's evidence of pollution but I also think because it's a hilly city so we get a bit of morning fog. But I shall not worry about that, if I cant change it, I cant and shouldn't worry about it.

I will only play my part, especially on the pollution bit. Most of the people I know will just look on and blame the government and everyone else but them selves. But I, Doreen; I will not throw rubbish anyhow (though I know the rubbish collectors will still dump it carelessly because of lack of regulation), I will plant a tree/flower when I can, in my village, when I build a house etc. and I will not pick a kaveera (polythene bag) from a shop unless I have to.

So imagine if  I encourage 10 of my friends to take the same approach. and they encourage 10 of  their friends each. Maybe in future we will wake up to clear skies every morning, except off course when the Lord blesses us with free showers. And imagine people just keep shouting ' tusaba gavumenti etuyambe' (we ask the government to help us) But they still go ahead to clear bushes to build their mansions or huts  whichever and they pave it all the way for their air polluting cars, without planting a single tree around it. Yes I agree the government needs to regulate, but we all have equal responsibility. If not for you, then for your children and children's children.

This is where I think we need government etuyambe: I weep (well..almost but not entirely because I am one of those people that never cry) every time I pass by any government designated industrial park. You see most of these places are former wetlands. They used to be lush green, typical for Uganda but now they are almost unrecognisable. Surely these investors owe Ugandans some thing in return of the free land. Some thing as simple as protecting our environment. All the government needs to do is asking them to plant a certain number of trees for every acre of land they operate on. The concrete is not helping us at all, not mentioning the fake products being manufactured behind that concrete.

But what I am I saying..i may not be able to ask the government to implement some of these things but I will do my part in making the environment safer for the next generations. And I pray and hope that someone else takes it the  same way too..and maybe one day someone who knows or is known by the government will also do something from the top.

Let me get back to work now..I have a big role to play in keeping it!

So I am here sipping my mug of Green Tanganda tea in a hotel after a long hard day of interviewing for this position in a country not my own, where I was exported for IT Support, of antivirus installation (who created viruses anyway? People are so evil. huh! But I am the sort of person who looks for the positive in every situation so I choose to look at it like another way of creating jobs for this poor tech crazy generation) And believe me or not, I am an IT Manager, a good one I hope but I am not tech crazy. I like to find a balance.

Imagine if there were no viruses! How many people would be unemployed? I know a good number of people employed by SS businesses who just wake up everyday and their job is to fight viruses. Then lots of companies that actually survive of sale of all sorts of antivirus, firewalls, recovery software etc. So we say.. well done to the virus creators and all other malware for that matter.

Maybe I would also be unemployed if there was no malware, or maybe I would be more productive coming up with ICT4D innovations or maybe being unemployed would be a good thing because I would be at home looking after my sweet little 2 year old instead of being here speaking fake Shona and saying 'Horite' to every statement for the sake of blending in and sounding Zimbabwean. I love this world of IT especially when things are working out fine, like they are now, and oooh how I love going places! But I dearly miss my daughter. Christ gave His life for me, and she is the only human I would give up my life for. Abandi, no beef.

But what's this post about? Lol. Just random thoughts of a working, travelling mother.

I'll take a shower now and go back to my O365 e-learning.

Have you ever been there and you have lots of random thoughts but none to share them with? If you're a woman, you know what am talking about. Our minds are constantly buzzing, meandering, rushing and boiling. Kinda reminds me of the River Nile sometimes. :)

So this blog is long long overdue. I am yet to trace my other blogs which I've started before and lost but hopefully this one will stay.
It's basically for putting my thoughts down at times like this when I am seated alone in my hotel room, more than 1000 miles away from home. Whether I've gone for work or holiday, there comes a time when I am alone. And being an introvert these times are many- and don't get me wrong; alone but not lonely. I love 'me' time and I enjoy my random thoughts to the extent that sometimes I lol by myself. I also used to col (Cry Out Loud) but not anymore. Now my Chains are gone and I am set free indeed!

So Hopefully I will, 10 years from now lol reading this again and seeing that I have persisted with the writing.