Termites!

This week there has been a lot of progress made on the movie. It has been a very good week and we had a new team show up on Monday, I mean Wednesday. So couple of new things going down this week
9-17-10
Today is the Internet day so I check in on my favorite 9, (thank you Paul Allen) and see that they have had a great week and are about a game out of the best record in baseball. October baseball in MN here we come! After getting through everything that I needed to check into and some lunch, Brynn and I go over some questions that we have about the film. It is a good session and we decide how we are going to start the film. Dinner then bed. Pretty lame day sorry
9-18-10
Today is Leilah’s birthday so we go on an adventure to the Nile. We take the sketchiest boats ever across the world’s second longest river. It went something like this. 3 strokes away from shore, Me: does it seem like the boat is taking on water? African: Here is a can. You bail while I row. Its okay? About 5 gallons of water later we make it across the river to the other side. It is pretty cool to see the old town center that was there and to see all of the boat drivers that all they do is ferry people across. On our way back over (so about 2.5 gallons of water) we see another boat that is ferry a motorcycle. This is Africa. We head home for lunch and leave shortly after for Bweyale to pick up some things for the team coming on Monday. (this is the correct spelling. It was wrong last time) I buy some “Otak” sandals. They are sandals that are literally made from motorcycle tires. They last forever according to Mike. We come back from Bweyale and have dinner. After dinner we setup a movie night for the kids and watch Finding Nemo before bed.
9-19-10
Wake up for church in the morning and then chill until lunch. We play some nertz with our team before I head over to work on importing the sound clips and matching them up with the movie. Have dinner that night before a huge skype session with Mom, Dad, Kaitlynn, Mallory, Jared, Alicia, Aaron and Ariana. After that it is bedtime.
9-20-21-10
Long sound filled days. On Monday we wake up to the thought that the team will be here around lunchtime, but at breakfast we find out they will not be here till Wednesday. Work all day importing the sound and matching it up with the guide track. This is a lot of fun because I have to do it in Final Cut and not Pro Tools. I finish up on Tuesday before dinner and play some soccer. On Tuesday morning we also gave an English test to the kids so that we can figure out where each of the classes are for the English classes we will be teaching on Mondays and Tuesdays. Big deal for the night on Tuesday is some of the agriculture guys show up with Termite Queens. They are a delicacy around here. Erin, Tom and I eat the first round. They cook them in leaves on the fire. I don’t know how to describe the taste. After dinner they bring out more and Brynn and Susie have some too. I also have more so that I can get a picture and Leilah misses the first time. So after 3 bites of termite queen, I decide that I might try it again sometime. Mike tries it raw, maybe I’ll do that…
9-22-10
Today, Brynn and I will be doing some interviews with only sound to put at the beginning of the documentary. We interview Bosco, Andrew and Lillian and get about an hour plus worth of speaking. Get some very good stuff, sound wise and content wise. Team arrives today at 4:42 so Brynn wins our bet of when they will be here with her guess of 4:30. The team is great and includes six people; Tanya, the leader, Molly, Jo, Nicole, Ronny and Bill. The youngest one is probably 30 and the oldest is probably 60; so a very different group from ours. Charles driver and Rose are with them and bring more goodies in the form of chicken. Something other than beans and rice, so pumped! We have dinner (beans and rice ☹ and then head to bed.
9-23-10
Wake up to breakfast of French toast and bananas; I love when teams come. Brynn and I do another interview with Kinyera Geoffery. This is by far the best one yet. The story and the sound are perfect. We could make a whole movie just out Geoffrey’s story. I am really excited for it. It is a cloudy day so I head over to the shed instead of the office because the office only has 3 solar panels and the shed has 12. I charge Brynn’s computer because it is completely dead as well as charging my recording piece. I also import all of the sound from the interviews the last few days. Once all this is done it is lunchtime. After lunch I go and type up a test; the teachers have been having us type up their midterms. Then we go termite queen hunting with Geoffrey and Chrispoter. Yes Chrispoter. We unearth one and we watch them eat the normal termite workers. They just bite the heads off and “its nice.” Erin, Brynn and Tom all eat one too. After hunting, Brynn and I go and record some of the kids singing. Its goes very well and we come back to a feast before bed.