heading on to Kampala, Uganda where I will be taking my GRE. That's
right, it's taking me two days to travel to the place where I can take
my GRE. Not only do I have to pay for the test, I also have to pay to
get there, on not so nice modes of transportation (well, I'm not flying)
and then I have to sit through 4 hours of an exam I don't really want to
take. Oh well, I guess it's for a good cause.
What cause is that? I think I'm going to go back to school and get a
masters in Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics. I'm hoping to start
either next spring or the following fall and by taking my GRE now, when
it's a pain in the butt, I'll be better able to prepare applications and
things like that. I'm not too worried about the test itself. It won't
be very fun, but I think I'll do all right. I will do good enough to
get into school for sure (I hope), but I'm hoping to do pretty well to
get a better chance at a Research Assistantship. Besides being a great
experience, the benefits are pretty nice as well.
I've been looking over the math stuff most and reviewing for that. I
pretty much see the English side of the exam as a lost cause. I've been
using too simple of English and not reading enough for my vocab to be
where it could be. I should do all right though.
My travel plans are a bit complicated though. I'm in Kigali now and I'm
taking the bus to Kampala, Uganda tomorrow. It's about 8-10 hours by
bus. Sunday and Monday nights I'll spend in Kampala and my test is on
Tuesday at 12:30. After the test I'll take an hour and a half bus to
Jinja, Uganda. I have a friend there and it should be good to see him
again. He came to the guest house and has been trying to get me to
Jinja since November, so it's about time. Then next Saturday, I'm
taking a 2 hour bus to Kampala and beyond to Entebbe where the airport
is and am flying to Beni, Congo. I'll be in Beni working with the Congo
Initiative (www.congoinitiative.org) for a week to ten days and will
then fly back to Goma.
Wish me luck, both for the test and for the travel. I'll post how it's
going/went sometime soon.
2 comments:
Hi Josh, Found your blog while looking for anything about Goma, where my daughter, Elettra is working for Caritas (out of Rome, Italy)...maybe you will run into her sometime (she tells me there are only a few places where the aid workers go to socialize in their "off hours"). Hope you did well on the GREs, Elettra is hoping to go to grad school after this year, as well (in Conflict Resolution... she' certainly in the right place to learn about that!!) Hope you keep writing, you're quite good at it! Joanie
Thanks Joanie. I plan on writing as long as time and internet/power availability allow. And since I have more time than power (usually) that is the limiting factor. Thanks for reading, and if I see your daughter, I'll remember to say hi for you.
Josh
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