Flashbacks and Farewells
Flashbacks first, Farewells second.
Here are a few pictures of us after the Nile whitewater rafting trip.
Paula has no glasses: swept away into the Nile when her helmet got sucked off as well.
Group photo the next morning: From left to right- Luke, me, Paula, Sam, and Aliza.
We got a lot of souvenier shopping done in Jinja the next day (Sunday).
Now on to the sadder news- we lost Shereen the previous friday, and Aliza was leaving on Tuesday, and Paula on Wednesday. All the estrogen in Sam and my life was disappearing all at once. (We did get a new guest on Sunday, her name is Luiza (sp?) and her husband is coming in a week, so I guess there is still some estrogen floating around). We did have a good time the night before Aliza left.
What's that we're holding??!!
Sweet Jesus, it's a Fizz Pop!
Fizz pops are a candy that Aliza has a chronic addiction to, and apparently these pops are only found in Africa. After talking about it for the last 2 months, finding empty fizz pop containers in supermarkets, and being generally disappointed, Aliza finally found some ancient fizz pops in a supermarket at Kisamente. We say ancient because the powdered fizz compound in the center of the fizz pop seemed to have chunked up and fossilized, and fizzing from the fizz pops was erratic at best. Still satisfying to have found them.
Sam found these interesting potato chips: Prawn Cocktail. They smelled and tasted like salt and vinegar potato chips, only with this strange sweet aftertaste that made the chips disgusting enough to throw away.
Shereen, deflating your soccer ball so that Aliza could take it back for you was quite a task.
It made a great Fizz Pop dispenser though.
On Tuesday, Paula and I went to the Speke Resort (Sam's recommended it as a nice place), which is in the lake town of Munyonyo. We saw something there that was really fantastic- Horses! Lots and lots of very pretty horses. And I thought that they didn't exist in Uganda. Paula said that this was her type of resort- namely, one with horses. (Look carefully, and you'll see that Paula has glasses again! We went into town, found an optics place, and they examined her eyes and ground her glasses the same day! And the glasses were cheaper than in the States- probably around 70 USD. Paula said that her eye exam was pretty neat- the guy had a whole shelf full of lenses, and a pair of glasses with slots in them, so that he could slide in lens after lens and ask if it was clearer or worse... good improvisation)
Riding the horses would have been too expensive, so we just sat poolside.
Wednesday, just before Paula left, we played with our housing complex's pet tortoise. He gets watermelon rinds and lettuce to eat from the resident who owns him/her, so we fed the tortoise a bit.
Paula's flight left at 4, and as we were driving to and from the airport, Paula wanted me to take pictures of the countryside. (She really likes butcheries- I'll have to get a picture of one later)
Construction with wooden scaffolding.
The yellow kiosk is the equivalent of a telephone booth- A person sits there with a phone, and takes cash from you when you want to use his/her phone. The phones they have look like normal land line phones that you would have in your house, but apparently they're all hooked up to cell phone receivers- in Uganda, cell phone coverage is almost everywhere, cheap, and easier to have when compared to wiring up the entire country.
One of the popular beer brands, Nile Special.
The following pictures are for Aliza- she wanted pictures of women sitting side-saddle on boda-bodas. Nuhu, the driver, didn't say anything while I was taking these pictures, but I could tell he thought I was acting strangely- when I explained to him that they were for Aliza, he cracked up and laughed really hard- it was just a weird concept to him, to want pictures of women sitting side-saddle. But here are your pictures Aliza.
Bonus picture- 2 females sitting side saddle on the same boda!
It's sad to have everyone leave, but the truth is, that I'm going where all of them went and I'm going very soon- I leave for the Bay Area on Tuesday. I'll see you all soon, and Sam will come soon after.
Here are a few pictures of us after the Nile whitewater rafting trip.
Paula has no glasses: swept away into the Nile when her helmet got sucked off as well.
Group photo the next morning: From left to right- Luke, me, Paula, Sam, and Aliza.
We got a lot of souvenier shopping done in Jinja the next day (Sunday).
Now on to the sadder news- we lost Shereen the previous friday, and Aliza was leaving on Tuesday, and Paula on Wednesday. All the estrogen in Sam and my life was disappearing all at once. (We did get a new guest on Sunday, her name is Luiza (sp?) and her husband is coming in a week, so I guess there is still some estrogen floating around). We did have a good time the night before Aliza left.
What's that we're holding??!!
Sweet Jesus, it's a Fizz Pop!
Fizz pops are a candy that Aliza has a chronic addiction to, and apparently these pops are only found in Africa. After talking about it for the last 2 months, finding empty fizz pop containers in supermarkets, and being generally disappointed, Aliza finally found some ancient fizz pops in a supermarket at Kisamente. We say ancient because the powdered fizz compound in the center of the fizz pop seemed to have chunked up and fossilized, and fizzing from the fizz pops was erratic at best. Still satisfying to have found them.
Sam found these interesting potato chips: Prawn Cocktail. They smelled and tasted like salt and vinegar potato chips, only with this strange sweet aftertaste that made the chips disgusting enough to throw away.
Shereen, deflating your soccer ball so that Aliza could take it back for you was quite a task.
It made a great Fizz Pop dispenser though.
On Tuesday, Paula and I went to the Speke Resort (Sam's recommended it as a nice place), which is in the lake town of Munyonyo. We saw something there that was really fantastic- Horses! Lots and lots of very pretty horses. And I thought that they didn't exist in Uganda. Paula said that this was her type of resort- namely, one with horses. (Look carefully, and you'll see that Paula has glasses again! We went into town, found an optics place, and they examined her eyes and ground her glasses the same day! And the glasses were cheaper than in the States- probably around 70 USD. Paula said that her eye exam was pretty neat- the guy had a whole shelf full of lenses, and a pair of glasses with slots in them, so that he could slide in lens after lens and ask if it was clearer or worse... good improvisation)
Riding the horses would have been too expensive, so we just sat poolside.
Wednesday, just before Paula left, we played with our housing complex's pet tortoise. He gets watermelon rinds and lettuce to eat from the resident who owns him/her, so we fed the tortoise a bit.
Paula's flight left at 4, and as we were driving to and from the airport, Paula wanted me to take pictures of the countryside. (She really likes butcheries- I'll have to get a picture of one later)
Construction with wooden scaffolding.
The yellow kiosk is the equivalent of a telephone booth- A person sits there with a phone, and takes cash from you when you want to use his/her phone. The phones they have look like normal land line phones that you would have in your house, but apparently they're all hooked up to cell phone receivers- in Uganda, cell phone coverage is almost everywhere, cheap, and easier to have when compared to wiring up the entire country.
One of the popular beer brands, Nile Special.
The following pictures are for Aliza- she wanted pictures of women sitting side-saddle on boda-bodas. Nuhu, the driver, didn't say anything while I was taking these pictures, but I could tell he thought I was acting strangely- when I explained to him that they were for Aliza, he cracked up and laughed really hard- it was just a weird concept to him, to want pictures of women sitting side-saddle. But here are your pictures Aliza.
Bonus picture- 2 females sitting side saddle on the same boda!
It's sad to have everyone leave, but the truth is, that I'm going where all of them went and I'm going very soon- I leave for the Bay Area on Tuesday. I'll see you all soon, and Sam will come soon after.
posted by Vince at 6:34 AM
1 Comments:
awesome! thanks vince, and welcome home!
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