To the Top of the Hill

Saturday Sr. Cecilia, Bry'Chell and I hiked to the top of the hill near campus. It wasn't that far, only a mile or mile and a half. It wasn't that high--it's a hill, not a mountain. But, it is the highest point around. I've been told it has a great view and my sources were right.

From the map, it's obvious that we are near Lake Victoria, and you can see little inlets from places along the road that runs past campus. However, I've never had a really good clue of how close we are until I was at the top of the hill. We could really see the lake and some of the islands. The view was beautiful all around. To the south was Lake Victoria, to the east, north and west are forests, banana plantations and patches of tilled fields, each in a different shade of green. Further to the east and west are swamps full of papyrus. The Katonga River runs to the west with a barrier of swamps along either side. Mostly we could just see the light green of the papyrus with an occasional line of blue where the river is visible.

The countryside is a vista of beautiful rolling green hills that fade into the horizon. The hills and valleys are dotted with houses and villages along a brown line of dirt roads.

On the hill were boys watching the cows. Mostly they were goofing around, wrestling as boys tend to do, ignoring the cows until one would stray too far, then a boy would whistle and the cow would meander back to the herd--if you can call eight cows a herd.

Bry'Chell took lots of pictures, but I haven't seen them yet. Of course, even if I see them, my chances of getting them uploaded to this blog are not esepcially good.

Well, I have to go. I'm sitting on a panel discussion about research methods, a topic sorely in need of discussion around here.