Daily Archive: June 19, 2015

Food

We eat about 80% the same food almost every day. A couple of the guys wanted to eat at an authentic Uganda restaurant, and they were offered the same stuff!
At all three meals, they offer this banana casserole stuff called matoke. It’s very popular in Uganda, and it’s not too bad. IMAG0979
Once a day, we usually get these 4-5 inch bananas that taste just like the ones at home. They keep me regular. IMAG0957The meat is very boney with gristle. Chicken, sometimes beef, often goat. Rice, potatoes, and beans, a cabbage slaw dish is offered at almost every lunch and dinner. I make wraps with the yummy chipata bread, the rice and beans. This is a pretty good plate, including the chipata, broccoli and a big slice of avocado, both received once a week so far.IMAG0964 (Makes me think of people I hear about who post their food incessantly on Twitter- sorry) Hard boiled eggs and sausages for most breakfasts with a slice of bread, butter substance, and jelly. The eggs are gone if you are late. We will get a lot more carbs during our home stays, but I hope to control the carbs in my home site when after I move.

Chickens roam the compound, so they are truly free range. Future meals. We get to hear the roosters every morning of course. IMAG0968They compete with a community radio making announcements over loudspeakers to the neighboring village at 6 a.m. every morning.
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Another tradition, held over from British rule, is morning tea and afternoon tea, under a big canopy.IMAG0969 I invariably run to do chores during these breaks, like tend to laundry, then I grab a cup of chai tea for the next session.

I am probably still losing weight.
Hmm, pictures are improved, but they could still be better.

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Rearviewmirror posts will be random stuff in one post.

Internet access is iffy so when I get it, there will likely be multiple posts, since I just keep writing.  I purchased data for my phone so I can turn it into modem, and be less dependent on the compound. Even that didn’t work for most of the week. An IT wiz has helped me with it.

A blog subscriber asked if my job assignment and site was my first choice. Yes. I had two others ranked higher last week, but ultimately picked the one I was assigned as #1. Certainly I have second guessed myself, but every job had pros and cons. I am part of a language group of five in my area, and I like them all, which is important for the next two years.

Headlines in the paper said Pope Francis is coming to Uganda in November. Obviously he will attract monstrous crowds. The country is 40% Catholic. Our security officer immediately said we can’t go. There are certainly many topics the Pope could talk about here.
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We were in Kampala last Saturday and all the streets were filled with people in a frenzy getting revved up for the football (soccer) game between Uganda (the Cranes) vs. Botswana (Zebras) at the Nelson Mandela Stadium. Again, we can’t go to events like this either. Bummer. I didn’t even think to take pictures. Sorry.

I have not taken very many pictures in Kampala and few are blog-worthy. Besides worrying about getting my smart phone snatched and acting too much like a tourist, people get upset by it. “This is not Europe! It is Africa!” Also some scenes are sad, like when a road was closed and our taxi detoured past some slums. Just don’t feel like shooting them. It’s not a zoo. A fellow PCT trainee shot a scene on his Go-Pro camera while we walked through busy streets and will email it to me. That should be OK to show you when I get it.

On the other hand, I hoped I solved the fuzzy problem. A forum said to reset it to “default” and I hope that works. See the next few posts. I’ve added a sharp and funny picture of me dancing on the “Site is Right” post, taken with a good camera.