Ca boom?
ca roule.
really, we should just let joel name all of our posts.
so we thought we should post a bit more because we probably won't be at a computer with internet again until the end of next week - on Monday, we leave Canada House and head to Rubingo (where Laura, Katie, Tanessa, Melanie and Graeme will be based). We'll be there a few days before heading down to Bushara Island on Wednesday with Valdean (an older woman who is volunteering there for 6 weeks). It will be nice to finally unpack and settle somewhere!
in the meantime though, we've been enjoying Mbarara. we successfully bought ground beef the other day (good thing there were pictures, or we're not sure what we would have gotten..ground beef doesn't seem to be a term that is used here..). we also quite unsuccessfully tried to haggle in the market...either we were getting good prices - or everybody has a set 'muzungu' price. we had to visit many stores and markets to try to find everything on our shopping list! we asked several people in the market how to prepare the beans that were being sold...all we got for an answer was 'yes yes, 400'...after getting the beans home we read up in a cookbook that they needed to be soaked for 8-12 hours prior to cooking...no beans for dinner that night! the curry prepared may or may not have been spread a little that night...good times. we also learned how to drive the white 4x4 toyotas we'll be using, and how to change a tire!
we have also been having language lessons in Runyankore-Rukiga (two dialects of more or less the same language - Rukiga is what will be spoken around Bushara). what a crazy language!! To give you a little taste... Naashemererwa kubareeba means "I'm happy to see you". Tinaayetagyereza means "I don't understand". not sure how fluent we'll be able to get, but we're going to try!! our taxi driver on our way into town today had a good laugh when we tried to pronounce the bakery where we wanted to be dropped off...he had a hearty chuckle...mmm - we tried!
hope you like the photos... sadly only one from Uganda. but we will get more up soon - we'll just have to wait a bit until the power is back on (it's been off every second day more or less... hopefully it will be back on again this afternoon - we ran out of water this morning and need the pumps to come back on to fill our storage tank!!).
murare gye!
really, we should just let joel name all of our posts.
so we thought we should post a bit more because we probably won't be at a computer with internet again until the end of next week - on Monday, we leave Canada House and head to Rubingo (where Laura, Katie, Tanessa, Melanie and Graeme will be based). We'll be there a few days before heading down to Bushara Island on Wednesday with Valdean (an older woman who is volunteering there for 6 weeks). It will be nice to finally unpack and settle somewhere!
in the meantime though, we've been enjoying Mbarara. we successfully bought ground beef the other day (good thing there were pictures, or we're not sure what we would have gotten..ground beef doesn't seem to be a term that is used here..). we also quite unsuccessfully tried to haggle in the market...either we were getting good prices - or everybody has a set 'muzungu' price. we had to visit many stores and markets to try to find everything on our shopping list! we asked several people in the market how to prepare the beans that were being sold...all we got for an answer was 'yes yes, 400'...after getting the beans home we read up in a cookbook that they needed to be soaked for 8-12 hours prior to cooking...no beans for dinner that night! the curry prepared may or may not have been spread a little that night...good times. we also learned how to drive the white 4x4 toyotas we'll be using, and how to change a tire!
we have also been having language lessons in Runyankore-Rukiga (two dialects of more or less the same language - Rukiga is what will be spoken around Bushara). what a crazy language!! To give you a little taste... Naashemererwa kubareeba means "I'm happy to see you". Tinaayetagyereza means "I don't understand". not sure how fluent we'll be able to get, but we're going to try!! our taxi driver on our way into town today had a good laugh when we tried to pronounce the bakery where we wanted to be dropped off...he had a hearty chuckle...mmm - we tried!
hope you like the photos... sadly only one from Uganda. but we will get more up soon - we'll just have to wait a bit until the power is back on (it's been off every second day more or less... hopefully it will be back on again this afternoon - we ran out of water this morning and need the pumps to come back on to fill our storage tank!!).
murare gye!
posted by bryony & emily at 2:10 PM
1 Comments:
Hey Bry and Em - glad you are safe and sound in Uganda! It's great to be able to read up on how things are going with the two of you. It sounds as though training was fun and as though you are already having many adventures since arriving! I love that you girls have a cell phone! I am definetly going to try and call sometime.
Well, back to the studying for me. Love you both lots and lots :)
Love, Jane xoxo
Post a Comment
<< Home