i – SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
The two important events in the past two months are the publication of results and the still awaited resumption of classes for the third year semester one. The formal results publication date was October 7. My results were as follows: a B+ in Legal Framework of NGOs, and a B in Project Management, Entrepreneurship and Sexual Reproductive Health and sustainable Development, while benefiting of an exemption in Information Technology for having taken and passed the same subject in my first year semester one.
I am happy only with results in the first two subjects (Legal Framework for NGOs and Project Management), not with the other two. I albeit accept them because logging a complaint and getting things round in Cavendish will be another long, frustrating and costly (in terms of time and finance) process. I am ready to proceed with the third year despite these controversial results, but I just hope things turn for the better in the upcoming circumstances.
On the other end, classes were planned to on 19th October. Unfortunately as always up to date we have not even received our timetable. We are still running up and down hunting for our timetable. The funny thing is that we have to do the work of contacting key players in the institution’s activities as if we were working there too. I have stopped complaining about this habit because I’m feeling like the more I complain the worse it gets.
ii - PERSONAL ACTIVITIES
While away in Mwange, apart from the time I spent with my family and friends I had some moments to read the book I took from the Forge Lusaka book stock, Love in the Time of Cholera, whose author is Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I found it pretty interesting that Laura gave me his Masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, together with some other books pertaining to the course I’m doing, and which I’m looking for opportune time to read. I also attended several church services
iii - MISCELLENEOUS
I had great time visiting my family in Mwange after five full months. However there is a growing concern about the future habitation of our families (Kikassa and me), because of the massive repatriation campaign and the potential shifting of the remaining refugees in Mwange to Kala which is not certain yet. I personally received a request from Laura to translate for the UNHCR representative from Lusaka. The meeting consisted mostly of urging people to repatriate before December because of the potential closure of Mwange thereafter.
Back in Lusaka, I am progressively resuming my exercising practice.
