been much of a muchness. And the power keeps going off, so I'm going to
update quickly while I have the chance. I've met some interesting
people, and now that I know a few faces whenever I am here I end up
surrounded by people. I spend a lot of time chatting to michelle, she's
australian and very nice and friendly.
The museum stuff is going okay. I've only really been doing mornings in
the museum as the uni girls are volunteering to give up their time, but
I've been running errands and stuff in the afternoons. Yesterday I had
to go all the way to Garden City to buy finds (read: freezer) bags and
that was the only place I could find them. Also it rained. I got quite
drenched but although the rain was cold as it fell on me, it also felt
like at the same time someone was training a fan heater on me because of
the hot wind. Very strange. So yeah, ummm, I've been trying to write
this while talking to Michelle, and it's not going well! I can't
concentrate. So. Yeah.
Some things that have amused me in the last couple of days, during the
rain a girl got in the minibus I was on with a black plastic bag over
her perfectly quaffed hair. Some guy today was carrrying some metal pole
things that were about 5 meters long, possibly longer, sticking straight
up in the air as he negotiated his way around the traffic. There are
loads of mannequins around showing off clothes and stuff, and mostly
they are white. There was one shop this afternoon which had two male
mannequins dressed up outside, held in place from the awning thing with
rope that was tied around their necks. Made me chuckle and nearly fall
down some steps.
I'm getting more used to Kampala now, finding my way around, and finding
places to buy fruit and stuff. I have bought two dresses so far, one of
which I'm not too sure about, but the other one is lovely. The only
thing I am not enjoying is the mosquitos. There are tons of them at this
bloody hostel, and my mossie repellant, and the one I took from the
guest house which was left behind by someone, are both running out. I
just got bitten while I was talking to Michelle and within minutes it
was swollen about an inch in diameter, vaguely yellow and surrrounded by
a big red patch. I've put stuff on it straight away so hopefully it'll
calm down. I'm going to take many anti-histamines tonight.
Oh, also, an african guy got run over just down the road from the hostel
yesterday, apparently one side of him was completely messed up, and he
was dragging himself along and asking for help but the car that hit him
just drove away, and the passers by just didn't do anything. This
according to the hungarian guy who was walking past at the time and who
told James which is who I heard it from. Apparently he died, but I'm not
sure how true that is. When I walked past there was a policeman and his
police bike, surrounded by lots of worried looking boda boda drivers
while he took notes. I was telling the girl I was workign with today and
she said she had seen about it on the news last night, but she didn't
know if it was true that the guy had died. I was uber worried when I had
to catch a boda boda so that i could quickly go and pick some things up
this morning. I tried to catch a taxi-bus but they were all full and
none were stopping for ages, so I was walking and a boda boda offered,
so I took it. He was very good actually, felt quite safe even though it
was a long way. I still have this odd high, wibbly, feeling for a while
after I get off them though.
Anyway, Michelle and I are about to go down the road to buy rolexes (not
the watch, an omelette wrapped in chappati - rolled eggs - rolex) for
dinner in a minute so I shall send this now and maybe actually get
around to doing some work later. Ha, like that will happen.
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