Since I "reunited" a couple of months ago with my hard drive that I was using in Congo, I have been revisiting and selecting pictures and videos of those times. Unfortunately, most videos have a very low technical quality, but I have found some decent pieces here and there and I have uploaded them in the awesome Vimeo site (which has a much better quality than YouTube):

Since the videos are very short, they are tiny pieces of memories, little appetizers for those with the desire to travel to Africa some day, or simply for those wishing to imagine how life looks like there. For me, they are tickets to go back to those days whenever I want.

The first video is of a women's group in Bukavu singing a little welcome song (karibu means welcome in Swahili), before starting an electoral sensitization session in April 2006.

The second video is of a street in a village called Aru in the Ituri province in Northeastern Congo (relatively close to Bunia). As you can see, it was shot (in February 2006) from a car window at dusk, showing a typical village evening.

The third video, even shorter, is of a graduation ceremony at the University of Kinshasa, in which students are celebrating with family and friends.

The last video is of the Congo river, shot from a boat sailing back to Kinshasa after an afternoon spent barbequeing and sunbathing on a sand island in the middle of the river.