Daily Archive: June 25, 2016

Goats Head Soup (A fitting punishment)

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This is Adams’ passion fruit field where I picked beans last December

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Some dastardly goats

I was disappointed when I came back from vacation. Matthews reported that goats had ruined my permagarden for the season, with the exception of a few surviving tomato plants. Also when I got my home, I went to the field behind the compound I had featured  in my blog earlier with the cows plowing and Margaret digging. Matthews had given her some banana seedlings that were doing quite well. Even with a surrounding fence however, goats got in and ate the leaves from the banana plants right down to the stalks. The sweet potatoes and cassava are still OK. I have said before goats are tethered everywhere, but some get loose and roam around.
While talking with Margaret about the banana plant calamity, she picked some “greens” for me. Some of them was do do (long o), a bitter green which is a sad substitute for spinach in my opinion. I don’t even know what the other greens were, nor can I tell the difference with weeds very easily. Then the caretaker for Adams’ passion fruit field, where I had worked in December to pick beans, gave me a bag of beans, from the same place. So I am preparing and eating them. It’s only fair I emulate the natives. Its so time consuming for a pampered American from the suburbs.

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A handful of greens to rinse three times, chop, and cook on the griddle.


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After cooking the greens, I made a grilled cheese and avocado sandwich, and that was dinner. I could not eat all the greens. How I miss broccoli. I will grow it someday.

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A bag of Adams’ beans to clean while I watch some movie on my computer.

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In my current situation of managing my monthly living allowance, these are relatively expensive, but labor saving, alternatives. Shame on me, the pampered American has not totally escaped processed foods.

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In my new neighborhood, a new group of kids to treat me like a rock star. They come running, and I am obliged to lift and toss each one up a bit. Its good for my arms. Here, they clustered at my door and “helped” me knock while I waited for someone to let me in.

Uganglish

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When you get your change back from the vendor at the taxi stage it is your “balance”. This is as close to drive through fast food in Uganda as it gets. Meat on a stick, drinks, fruit and crackers.

There is going to be a movie from Disney released in September called “Queen of Katwe”. It’s a true story about a girl who is from the slums of Kampala and becomes a chess champion. It was filmed in Uganda and South Africa. This is the trailer. The depiction of the kid carrying two yellow jerry cans of water was part of my life until I moved.
Note the inflections you hear in the speaking. We say Ugandans speak Uganglish. When I speak English to native Ugandans, this is the way I sound now. Clark noticed it a bit during our vacation. At first I was a bit bothered when I heard veteran PCVs speak this way during training, but it’s something you slip into. Sort of like acquiring a Texas twang if you live there long enough. Here are a few interesting Uganglish phrases and elements of cultural communication:

Often injecting “What?” prior to the object of a sentence. “Next week you will all submit your what? Reports.”

“Thank you please” or “Yes, thank you please”

At the beginning of every meeting, the chairman will go through the entire agenda and announce who will be responsible, even when the agenda is handed out.

Ugandans say their names by announcing their surname first: Lilley Charles; Tumusiime Idd Adams

Inserting “Me” before “I”    “Me, I visited my family in the village and brought them a what? Chicken.”
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Dates are written as day/month/year. It took awhile to get used to this, when signing guest books, which are presented wherever you go. My brother informs me this is European style.

“We are struggling” (working hard)

When you greet anyone, especially the children, and ask how they are, they always say “I am fine!” If I am asked, it feels weird to just say “good” or “OK”

Almost always when exchanging greetings with adults, you are asked “How is your place” or “How is Bugiri?”

“Well done” is very common to say when you see a good job.

“Now now” Immediately. A rarity in this country of relaxed time management. .

“Muzungu byeeee” shouted by toddlers as you pass, while they wave. Unless they are my neighbor kids, who yell “Charley! Charley!”