A meeting with the Interns
September 10, 2006:
After waking up from my short 4 hour nap in a small dorm room on the Egarton Campus, Shivo and I walked across campus to meet up with Jen (Go Canada!) and the rest of the interns who never made it out to the party to catch up and start discussing our projects and to start communication lines between internship.
The conversation was very interesting as I finally got to vent some of my frustrations to people who were going through the exact same thing. It also really gave me a chance to get to know other interns perspectives on how I should be approaching my position here on raising internships on HIV/AIDS. We also set up plans to start going on Safaris and the like, which i know would be a blast.
Once again I partied during the evening, which I have now realized is a daily thing here in Kenya. I have now decided to set up a system of avoidance for partying, because people always put pressure on you to head out after a day of work.
Speaking of which, I have been putting a lot of thought into alcohol as a disabler of countries, espcailly for developing nations. Overall, alcohol really does nothing to promote positive activity in any nation but it really activates a sense of apathy when you think about how it is used in developing nations. Beer here is cheap. Beer was cheap in Poland. It is the ready availablity of the alcohol that adds to the general level of disparity between the poor and the wealthy. Here is my theory on that:
If you think of any great mind of our time you never associate them with drinking. That is because they don't. Alcohol is an inhibiter of ideas and conscious thought. With no new ideas or aspirations other than getting enough money to buy your next bottle of alcohol the people who are at the bottom of society can never hope to move up. I tend to think of alcohol as a great system of control. Give a man a bottle and he will not challenge your ideas, never question your direction. Infact, I would go so far as to say in some of the poorer countries the government keeps the price of alcohol so low in order to qwell unrest and keep the poor people down.
Alcohol is holding people back and hampering the developement of all nations, not just developing ones. Even though I am such a hypocrite and drink myself I often wish for a day that I no longer party and instead put efforts into greater things. If you think of all the time and money you have spent partying, I am sure that you would agree you could have come up with an idea that could have changed humanity or made you rich.
Stop Drinking.
Its my quest, and I really hope that others will consider sobriety as an option.
Such a Hypocrite,
Devan
After waking up from my short 4 hour nap in a small dorm room on the Egarton Campus, Shivo and I walked across campus to meet up with Jen (Go Canada!) and the rest of the interns who never made it out to the party to catch up and start discussing our projects and to start communication lines between internship.
The conversation was very interesting as I finally got to vent some of my frustrations to people who were going through the exact same thing. It also really gave me a chance to get to know other interns perspectives on how I should be approaching my position here on raising internships on HIV/AIDS. We also set up plans to start going on Safaris and the like, which i know would be a blast.
Once again I partied during the evening, which I have now realized is a daily thing here in Kenya. I have now decided to set up a system of avoidance for partying, because people always put pressure on you to head out after a day of work.
Speaking of which, I have been putting a lot of thought into alcohol as a disabler of countries, espcailly for developing nations. Overall, alcohol really does nothing to promote positive activity in any nation but it really activates a sense of apathy when you think about how it is used in developing nations. Beer here is cheap. Beer was cheap in Poland. It is the ready availablity of the alcohol that adds to the general level of disparity between the poor and the wealthy. Here is my theory on that:
If you think of any great mind of our time you never associate them with drinking. That is because they don't. Alcohol is an inhibiter of ideas and conscious thought. With no new ideas or aspirations other than getting enough money to buy your next bottle of alcohol the people who are at the bottom of society can never hope to move up. I tend to think of alcohol as a great system of control. Give a man a bottle and he will not challenge your ideas, never question your direction. Infact, I would go so far as to say in some of the poorer countries the government keeps the price of alcohol so low in order to qwell unrest and keep the poor people down.
Alcohol is holding people back and hampering the developement of all nations, not just developing ones. Even though I am such a hypocrite and drink myself I often wish for a day that I no longer party and instead put efforts into greater things. If you think of all the time and money you have spent partying, I am sure that you would agree you could have come up with an idea that could have changed humanity or made you rich.
Stop Drinking.
Its my quest, and I really hope that others will consider sobriety as an option.
Such a Hypocrite,
Devan
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