Hello from Gorillas Nest!
Category: Uncategorized | Date: Jun 21 2008 | By: admin
Hello everyone, this is Paula writing from a hotel called the Gorillas Nest. Its nestled in the Volcanoes mountains - and its cold! I’m here with a team from USA and Rwanda including children, film makers, story tellers, and donors (including Craig Hatkoff, folk from Tribeca Film Festival (they ahve helped create the Rwanda Film Festival), Eric a Rwanan film maker who made 100 days (a must see about the genocide), and the kids who made the Owen and Mzee hipposodes. We are here to attend the Kwita Izina Gorilla naming ceremony and to do some animation with Rwandan children.
Excuse me for the sleepy nature of this post, it is 6.30 am, birds are screaming, and the sun has just emerged casting a red tone on the mist shrouded mountains, an the coffee is only only just starting to permeate my veins. I came with Dino from Dudu Diaries who is identifying rare birds and giant mosquitoes so expect some bizarre posts in coming days from the two of us. We are all so excited - last night we met the Director General of ORTPN the conservation authority here - she, YES She!!! is young, beautiful and amazing. Today is the gorilla naming ceremony and tomorrow we go gorilla trekking!
We are taking photos and will create a podcast too - keep your eyes open for more from us
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7 Responses to “Hello from Gorillas Nest!”
thewaterhole, on 21 Jun 2008
This must be a very exciting ceremony. I wrote about it in my newsletter last month as an upcoming event. 12 baby gorillas to be named, right? I think it is ingeneous and very beneficial to the gorillas. It puts them in the news in a positive way.
sheryl, washington dc, on 21 Jun 2008
I remember when Dr. Lucy posted about the naming ceremony where she got to name a baby. It’s a huge event.
Your job does not suck, Paula. I can’t wait for the photos and podcast.
s.
Jim from Mass USA, on 21 Jun 2008
Paula … Wow! … and you get paid for this? … are you rubbing elbows with the “stars”? … now I know why you are behind in your email! … you should get your own Flickr photostream like Dr. Asuka & Kimojino and show off your pix! … their pix are awesome!!! … have another Kenya AA coffee with extra caffeine! … Enjoy!
Jim from Mass USA, on 21 Jun 2008
Someone should have dragged the President of the DR Congo to the ceremony…!!!
Jim from Mass USA, on 21 Jun 2008
For Paula: SB the GM of HP just left a comment on my blog!
Annie, on 23 Jun 2008
How exciting………..you are so lucky to witness this!
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