Milk and apples flew across the quad at Gilroy High School as hundreds of students joined in a food fight that started as a result of an actual fight at the end of lunch on Friday. Within no time, 30 officers in riot gear, and California Highway Patrolmen brandishing sandbag loaded [...]
Entries from February 2009
February 1, 2009
Observations from Kampala (Uganda)
Yesterday I had spaghetti at a restaurant in Jinja (Uganda) for 4,500 shillings, about $2.25.
For an American abroad, eating is East Africa is cheap, but for the majority of the population in Uganda, even my pasta would have been out of reach. There are pockets of relative wealth around the area, but they are lined with poverty. [...]
