By now, I guess you`re all well informed about how the AIM projects are progressing. Except one. It`s about time I tell you how things are going with the documentary making.
All on my own I`m making a documentary about the work that`s being carried out by the AIM delegation this summer, and I can assure you it`s a challenge to cover four projects executed at three different locations simultaneously. But I`m definitely enjoying it. I get to travel around, and have been to both Masaka and Bushenyi visiting the Pro:piggery and Lions Quest groups, as well as several places in Kampala. A few things has made such an impression, I must comment upon it. Here the cows are quite a sight with their 70 cm long pointed horns, all the cars seem to be Toyotas, and nothing is to big to be transported on a bike, It`s just impressive.
Now I`m back in Kampala and most of the time is spent in Kamwokya (the biggest slum in the city). Being withe, and also carrying a big video-camera I`m quite popular among the children. They flock around me, some pushing their face into the lens, some trying to catch a glimpse of the picture at the LCD-screen. I sometimes have to ask them to pretend I`m not there, they`re just too eager to be on video. The same does not necessarily go for the people I`m actually here to capture - the AIM delegation, but most of them are used to me now, following them close up.
I now have 25 full tapes, but still I feel a slight panic creeping up when thinking about the fact that it`s less than two weeks left. Will I have everything I need on tape? Will I recover tape number 17? Will everything at home feel boring after this? I think it might.
Brynhild "Hilda" - The documentarist.
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