Christmas preperation photos and silly thoughts.....

Is life easier?

There are so many things here in Uganda that you have almost never thought about, which is most often a result of the westernised community. Let me remind you of some...

Were do our endless piles of wrappers, cans and other garbage go to? isnt there a blackhole somewhere in space that swallows all our garbage? For Uganda there isn't. The trash piles up everywhere, even where its visable to us "mzungus"! Can you believe it? There are no garbage guys which remove the trash from us and allow us not to think anymore about where it goes etc. What a shame...

From what is KFC made? To be honest I have never thought a great deal about chicken in general, all I knew was that KFC was just too good, whatever it was made from. Yes yes, little cute chicken possibly, but wtf... Now it happens to be that our hen, who is called Heny, is laying eggs. 12 of them! Everybody in our small family, including our azkari (watchman), are so exited. 12 new cute family members running around the compound with Heny. How lovely! And what a possibility! With all these chicken we sure can open a KFC in soroti!

How does a washing mashine work? Well, I genuinly thought that you put in your clothes and some washing powder, press start, the mashine shakes for an hour and then kaboom, your clothes are ready and clean! But no..., it just must be a little bit more complicated, because no matter how much i try to look for a start button on the washing basin or how much washing powder i put in there, my clothes just dont get clean! the other day i even tried to shake the basin for an hour with no results...

Well, enough of these reminders, it's Christmas time and here are some photos of our Holiday preperations:


I made heavinly beef on Sunday and it was delicius! We have finally managed to pick out the best pieces from the meat, after having been chewing on necks, liver or feet for the past 3 months.

We also had some redwine for the first time in almost 3 months! It was the cheapest wine in the store in Kampala but we are certain it is the best wine we have ever tasted... hmmmm... maybe our standards are getting a little bit too low...

Christmas tree!!!

And even Chrstimas lights we bought... oh yes...

Do they know its Christmastime at all?

From the pen of Vignir:

A mechanical person greeted me at the supermarket the other day. A feeling of uneasiness came over me; the mechanical person was somewhat sinister and eerie in appearance. He had a disturbing laugh and a smile which seemed to hold many unsetteling secrets. This was of course Santa Claus, christmas time is coming!

Of all places in the world Soroti is one of the last place where I'd expect to see one of these abominations. But the spirit of the season is here, although the climate would indicate that it is now the middle of summer and christmas is months away.

We will of course do our part in making the holidays festive. Harpa has already bought red and blue lightbulbs, although the red one gives the appearance that we're running some sort ofbackstreet business... None of that sort, we're celebrating christmas a time for cheer.

We'll be going to Kampala to stock up on decorations and food supplies. Including a duck. We will be going completely "native" when it comes to the duck. We'll be travelling on the bus with an alive and kicking duck.

Happy holidays everybody.

Vignir and Harpa