I predict a riot
Trip Start
Aug 16, 2009
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Trip End
Nov 18, 2009
Kasangati, Uganda
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Another update! No massage last week...TIA after all and so I shall have to go some other time...What a week though..it started off with some farm work; shoveling bull shit into holes for cabbage..glamorous. The children celebrated the official beginning of term with singing and dancing and a send off for Ilka, who leaves next week...it was great, especially when Emma's younger brother Edward (who is a rugged 24 year old who has definitely been eating his weetabix) got up to dance to the drums..boy can he move his hips!
On Thursday we went again to the slums and visited a lady who looks after 16 children, some of which were left on her doorstep (i say doorstep but she and the children live in what used to be a narrow corridor between two tumble down buildings)...she was a lovely lady who really makes the most of what she doesn't have. Another lady there works with herbal medicines, they seem to have something for everything and Emma was given some bark for "man power"...whatever that might be for!!! She also commented to our translator that I Iooked very fertile! Ha Ha.
After the slums Ilka and I wondered into Kampala only to get caught in the riots, which had not been predicted otherwise I would not have gone! Oh my god, I can safely say my heart was in my mouth for a good number of hours..trying to get out the city with tear gas, bullets, fires, people throwing stones and anything they could get their hands on and cars being ripped apart was interesting to say the least...Ilka and I found a bodaboda driver to get us out but there were road blocks in the direction we needed and the riots were continuing up as far out as we lived, in the end we had to drive through a mob of people tearing apart a large rubbish truck to get out but there were road blocks past our flats with cars on fire...I thought in my first month in Uganda I might get a nasty bought of the runs..not a rioting city! All good with us now, but sadly at least 11 people were killed.
After all that, it's a quite weekend, the riots are still continuing but seem to be more controlled and people have calmed down. I'm off to watch some football with Izzy...I think Liverpool, Arsenal and Man Utd games are showing but I have not seen television for 4 weeks so I am somewhat out of the loop.
Thanks again for all your calls/texts and emails. It's great to hear what you are all up to! Unfortunately no weight loss as some of you have suggested. It's a good job that the people in Uganda seem to like slightly plump dirty blondes!!
Lots of love to you all
Amy x
