Back I am with more breaking news!!!
I've finally reached my project!!!!
It's called Global Village Network Uganda (GVN) and is located an hour
away from Kampala on a Farm between the villages of Kalungu and
Kalanamu.
My host father and boss, Duncan, initiated it about 10 month ago, so
it's quite new, thus he (maybe I should start using “we” now, since
I'll be a part of this for a year) still has to get settled.
So at the moment we have to organize ourselves first, before we can
start the work with the communities, but I'm really looking forward to
it!!
I'd really like to present all the plans we have at this point, but
first things first:
I live here together with Duncan (my boss and host father) and Shafiq
and Kizito (his employees).
We have a hen-farm (with about 700 hens!!!) and a piece of land that
we're planing to cultivate (Duncan already started with a part of it:
bananas - matoke in Luganda - and sugar cane).
There are two rooms in our house: one living room/bedroom/bathroom and
one that we use as a kitchen, but later we'll change it to an office
and a room for me :D
A thing I really have to get used to are the showers and toilets:
there are none! :P
The toilet is a small hut with a hole in the ground and the shower is
a basin (that you have to fill with water from the well about 100m
away from the house – yes, we have no running water ) and a sponge.
One thing that really shocked me on the night I arrived were these
nasty-big-noisy-distgusting-
completely harmless...) that are all over our place at night :s
But enough of the unpleasant stuff:
We've got 365 day of summer!!!
It's been sunshine all the way (no wonder, since it's the dry season
at the moment) and everything is green and natural.
It's just a shame that most of the forest in this area has been cut
down... - in order to cultivate it.
But in the remaining bit I even saw some monkeys :)
The food we eat is really good, a lot of Irish- and sweet potatoes as
well as posho (a kind of maize-mash) with beans and matoke with
ground-nut/peanut sauce (it tastes too good!!! - and it's "very good for
men"... I'm not really sure what that's supposed to mean :p).
And then there is all the fresh fruit like bananas, pineapple,
Yak-fruit/Fenee, these extremely tasty local passionfruits (they're my
favorite) and papaya. - I feel like I've never eaten that many
vitamins!!
OK, that should be enough for the moment – I know, nobody wants to read
long boring texts, so I'll leave you with the pictures for now.
Weraba
The view from my balcony.
The hen house
Our Toilet
The Fenee adventure
Inside our house
Kisito with Jerry cans to get water
