3 April 2006

This isn't something that I'm going to send to editors when I try to get a full-time job (http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0601855.htm), but it still counts.

I've been to Burundi...

We were driving back to Kampala from Jinja on Uganda's election day. The CSM reporter, the NPR correspondent our driver, Ismael, and I crossed a washed-out bridged, faced trucks hurtling past us and stared down mini-buses speeding down the wrong side of the road. "You know, people think that our jobs are dangerous," Jason, the NPR reporter said. "But they don't realize that the most dangerous thing is getting from one place to another on the roads here."

We all laughed.

I'm about to go test that theory and take public transport home. Wish me luck.