First Post... by Jamie

Polly and I are headed to Uganda on July 1st with the organization "Fount of Mercy".  Polly is going to be teaching sewing and I will be doing a combination of teacher training and filming the teacher training.

Here's a short list of what I've done to prepare:

• Purchased the "uTalk Luganda" app and my vocabulary is between 30 - 40 words and phrases.
• Emailed several documentary filmmakers (Bryan Fowler, Rex Miller,Thomas Nybo) on the DocuLink message board.
• Emailed filmmaker Rex Miller, who I shot for last summer, about his three films based in Uganda.
• Purchased a new Canon T2i and accessories.  Learned lots about data workflow.
• Got (ahem) Final Cut Pro
• Read Ugandan blogs/news sites: Daily Monitor, The Observer, The Independent, and the East African just to name a few
• Purchased and read the Bradt travel guide and Shattered Pearl
• Vaccinated for Yellow Fever, Polio, Hepatitis A, and Typhoid.

Seems like a good start to the blog.

-Jamie