Tuesday, December 23, 2008

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...

















4 comments:

Unknown said...

Hæ elsku Vignir og Harpa

Gleðileg jól !! hafið það gott yfir hátíðarnar

Bestu kveðjur Auðbjörg og Óli Örn

Anonymous said...

PLR mafakkas....

frá landinu sem er sko með ruslabíla og allt ruglið... USA hreppi...

Hafiði sem best,

Jóla-Óli

ps: ég skal sjá um KFC, það eru ekki nema 4 staðir í hverfinu

Anonymous said...

Gledilegt ar elskurnar !!
p.s. er komin med mida og vida inni indland, fer 7 shaese !!

Unknown said...

love the little christmas tree!
still enjoying Soroti?

Missing you here in cold cold Norway...


Martine