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A quick glimpse of Nairobi nightlife
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 29 November 2009
"Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats as we approach Nairobi, Jomo Kenyatta airport."I'm slightly apprehensive leaving Uganda as I leave behind the familiarity of the Luganda greetings that I've been having such fun with over the last nine months. I feel like an outsider again. Will everyone speak English?
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Prizes for my "indigenous mix"
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 21 November 2009
From the gutter to the Kabira Club, what a true star my mutt Baldrick is and a fantastic advert for the work of the Uganda Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Found as a pup drowning in a ditch, Baldrick Superdog came First in the Dog with the Waggiest Tail competition and ended up coming third overall on the day! Hilarious.
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How d'you catch a gecko?
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 10 November 2009
The gecko living in my bathroom is getting fatter and fatter by the day, my nice white walls peppered with little black droppings. There's no way he'll ever get back out through the thin gap by the windowframe.I rarely see more than a flash of him as he darts behind the cistern but the evidence is there. I'm happy to accommodate anyone who likes eating mosquitoes but am getting tired of his idea of home decoration.Enough already!
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Couchsurfing Uganda: A Mzungu in the Midst (Part 2)
Blog: GoBackpacking - 29 October 2009
Post by new contributor Lindsay Clark of Nomadderwhere. The first mission of the day was to make it to the city, as the locals do, wandering up weaving lames and jumping garbage heaps until Entebbe road appeared, in all its smoggy splendor. On the way, I began to re-experience the wonder of being a walking [...]Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier)
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Couchsurfing Uganda: A Mzungu in the Midst
Blog: GoBackpacking - 28 October 2009
...my drive from the airport got me closer to the real Uganda...Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier)
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Count yourself lucky
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 24 October 2009
This week we’ve been busy: straining to glimpse African Presidents flying overhead in their Chinooks and swerving off the road as the Presidential motorcades plough past, to and from the African Union meetings being held in Kampala. It makes me sick to think I might be breathing the same air as Robert Mugabe.
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If You Speak Dutch, Go Read Another Blog
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 9 October 2009
9/23/09: Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda to Kampala, Uganda The first two weeks of our tour will literally get us nowhere. Today we will begin our journey back to where we started: Nairobi, Kenya. Including today, we will do three all-day drives over the beyond bumpy Ugandan and Kenyan roads. Each morning we will wake up just after [...]
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Cholera outbreak in Nam'
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 8 October 2009
It’s been raining heavily all day.The gutter is falling off the front of the house (not that the landlord cares) and Eva has a poloneck jumper on “It’s so COLD!” she says, while I sit here in the same light clothes and sandals I always wear.Rain here is both a blessing and a curse.Uganda is a fantastically green and lush country. The two rainy seasons mean that many people (98% of the country are subsistence farmers) can plant and harvest twice a year.
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"The cheque's in the post ...." apparently
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 27 September 2009
Off to the Post Office in the morning to see whether I have any birthday cards (tuesday 29th ).
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My 'new' new life
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 24 September 2009
Q: what gets stared at more than a mzungu?A: a mzungu with a dog!
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A day in the life ... species by species
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 23 August 2009
"Greetings!" As we say in Uganda.We may not have the same change of seasons as Europe but the insects don’t know that! They come and go in phases. If you’ve been reading my blog regularly you’ll have met:Mosquitoes and ‘roaches http://kampaladays.blogspot.com/2009/03/dealing-with-insects-aka-therapy-with.html – hell, but they do their own relentless thing all the year round!
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Not forgetting why I'm really here ...
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 7 August 2009
There’s no point in pretending: I’m really behind with work and I’m not going to get it all done in the next hour it takes for Mike (UCF’s Founder) to drive from the airport.
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Kiva Fellows in DeNile
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 3 August 2009
By Jaclyn Berfond, Laura Buhler, Alison Carlman, Joel Carlman and Cameron Morris Last weekend the East African Kiva Fellows delegation descended upon the bustling streets of Kampala, Uganda and the banks of the Nile River for two days of intense knowledge transfer and mild revelry. We spent hours discussing the importance of data validity in performing [...]
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Ants in my pants
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 23 July 2009
It’s been building for a fortnight: a column of tiny black ants marching up and down the tiles behind the toilet cistern, 24 hours a day, the dotted black line slowly becoming a solid black line.
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Off to the field
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 30 June 2009
Tuesday night is market night and the drums are playing loud on the other side of the compound wall, just a few metres away.
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Four months in Kampala and am I making a difference?
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 21 June 2009
I've been here four months today. I’m realising now that I won’t be able to achieve anything like what I’d like to.
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Grasshoppers - eat them or smoke them? Discuss.
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 10 June 2009
A storm had been brewing since an intensely hot morning and a few drops of rain spattered onto my new umbrella as I walked out of the restaurant.Little did I know what I was heading into.
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More Shopping Tales From The Dark Continent
Blog: Don't give up the day job - 5 June 2009
A tale in the same vein as the one where I tried to return three rakes, and only got my money back for the ones that weren't broken...A colleague of ours was telling me a story last week. She wanted to get some skirts made out of the loud, funky Congolese cotton prints that are so beautiful. She'd bought her fabric and found a local seamstress.
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A girl called Kevin: our guide up Mount Elgon
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 18 May 2009
Four days hiking, 48km, a 3000 metre climb - and a damaged knee ligament on Day One!
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Making a Hash of it
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 2 May 2009
Happy May Day Bank Holiday! Feet are killing me this morning. Several hours dancing to the most fantastic African music, after a run round the streets of Kampala with 250 ‘Hashers’ meeting for Africa Hash 2009.
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D Day ... and link to more photos
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 19 April 2009
Well there IS more to life in Kampala than insects but boy are they gonna give over and let me tell you some other news? Well no frankly, not this week.
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Locomotion commotion
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 5 April 2009
Thanks for all the emails and sorry if I haven’t replied yet. I will! I write this blog offline but it’s still taking time to download and reply to individual emails and I’m a bit behind this week after submitting my first proposal. Worked on it most of last w/end and two very late nights / early mornings. It’s for a wee $40k! but couldn’t help but make the same amount of effort as I did with the big Laing PFI bids. UCF directors and Trustees over the moon with what we submitted so fingers crossed we get the grant …
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Uganda in pictures UPDATED
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 23 March 2009
Finally, some photos ... !
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And then there were three ...
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 21 March 2009
Last week was frustrating in many ways ... I know I've hardly mentioned it so far with all the other excitement BUT ... I am actually here to do a job too!
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Dealing with insects (aka Therapy with Simpson)
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 16 March 2009
Am getting the upper hand over the mozzies. Score is 2:1 to them (nights that is) and I'm fighting back but last night came eye to eye with a medium sized Unmentionable at the back of my food cupboard. We had the obligatory game of Chase-Me-Charlie and the little fu**er scarpered. (Julie, this one was definitely called Jayco!!)
