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Chat with kayiwafred May 16, 2010

Hi Fred

Thanks for agreeing to write some open letters to me. I think we made a good start this morning, building on our normal Google chats. This is an experiment where we will be learning from each other.

I know that I enjoy hearing your news and learning what you are doing, but usually I feel I must cut our chats short because I have other people that I need to write to as well. However, if we are writing open letters then we can exchange more information.

If you prefer to use Google chats to start with (instead of doing emails) that will be fine. If we use Posterous we can easily move our chats over there (I am doing that now - see http://dadamac.posterous.com/). Every now and again I can point to our collection of Posterous chats from my blog. We will experiment and see what is most comfortable for us.

Last time we chatted you said you had passed your exams but you would be working through the holidays. Perhaps you can describe more about where you will go and what you will be doing.

As we are just starting to do these open letters (and learning as we go along the best way to do it) I should just mention that I have a little worry. I am a bit concerned that you may have some false hopes about writing these open letters. I noticed that you asked for financial support in the chat, which you do not usually do when we are just chatting together. I was not thinking of this as a way for you to raise money.  I just thought it would be a better way for us to exchange information. It is not really a way to do direct fundraising. Of course it is fine if you mention your website, and as I recall you do invite support from people there. I think through your website is the best way. 
 
Let us agree that when you chat to me I will always share with others now - unless you tell me that you need a private chat. Please confirm that is okay. I will not usually change anything that you write, but we can explain that you have to write in haste in a cyber cafe:

On 16 May 2010 09:48, kayiwafred@gmail.com <kayiwafred@gmail.com> wrote:
09:30 kayiwafred@gmail.com: i need to email you soon my letter
09:31 me: yes please
  :-)
 kayiwafred@gmail.com: bye for now
09:32 me: Just write to me - as if you were chatting to me here - but I was not responding....
09:33 me: and only write things you would write if you knew I was in a cyber cafe and strangers would be reading over my shoulder
09:34 kayiwafred@gmail.com: can u send me an example
 me: In fact - if you like - we can do it here now.. and I will copy it later to the dadamac.net blog
  just tell me your news, but give me permission to copy and publish this chat
09:35 kayiwafred@gmail.com: ok lets buy more 10 minutes
 me: ok
09:36 kayiwafred@gmail.com: ok i start now
 me: ok
09:38 kayiwafred@gmail.com: in my struggle to make my community enjoy their lives and their children benefits in their talents am taking up a corse at universty of social work and community Development
09:39 However i have developed several organisations or groups to ensure that there is development a mong youths through sports and one ornaisation is called kampala Junior Team on website www.kampalajuniorteam.org
  and this is to organise all the disavdvantaged chidren together though sports
09:40 in the same way we are coming up with BeyonD Youth Sports
  still with the same mission in different comunities.
09:41 Pesonnaly i still have some ups and downs in my life and studies and am struggling to finish my course his year since am in my third and last year.
09:42 In this cause i would love to get some sponsorship to finish my coourse and also appeal to whoever would love to partner with me in developing youth sports in Uganda is more welcome.
09:44 Rember no man is an Island so i need your support though you need mine as well.
09:45 Remember that sports In the area of Sport & Development, ‘sport’ is generally understood to include physical activities that go beyond competitive sports.

“Incorporated into the definition of ‘sport’ are all forms of physical activity that contribute to physical fitness, mental well-being and social interaction. These include: play; recreation; organized, casual or competitive sport; and indigenous sports or games.

09:46 am i on right trck Pam
 me: I would like to include the introduction, when we decided to try it this way - is that okay with you?
09:47 me: i understand you problem in deciding where to "start your story"
 kayiwafred@gmail.com: is there something missing or i can go
  my time is ruuning
 me: I willl share all of this
 me: is that ok?
 kayiwafred@gmail.com: so u can pu in ur input as me
 me: thank you for truing this with me
09:48 kayiwafred@gmail.com: i give you permision haha
 me: than you
  BFN
 kayiwafred@gmail.com: i know you have nice english and good organisation of words
NB from Pam - I appreciate Fred's compliment, but I'm very aware that I have two important advantage when it comes to writing things for the Internet - I only speak one language (so I am using my mother tongue) and usually I get plenty of time to redraft what I write. Many people who write to me are writing in their second or third language They  are often writing in cyber cafes, where the keyboards are often the worse for wear, so keys stick - especially the overworked ones like "caps" and "delete". They are also working against the clock, like Fred, going back to buy another ten minutes in order to write this.

So.. Fred.. we will look out for each other again on google and chat some more, and share what you tell me. How much longer do you have before it is time to go back to college?

Pam