i stop in mbarara every time i am in uganda to eat at a little roadside restaurant that is there. some good eats after being in a motatu all day!! i really envy you guys and hope that i will also be in your position one day. i read your post about how their english is much different than ours, and boy is it true!! i have had a group of kids follow me down the road with hands outstretched saying "give me my money"!! good times. anyways, maybe one day ill bump into you over there.. cheers!
Hi Nate. Curious which restaurant you stop at. Agip is one of our favourites and a popular stop for tourists.
Do you plan to volunteer?
Usually the kids just yell 'mzungu, how are you?' but in certain areas that tourists frequent, the kids will yell 'give me money'. Unfortunately, when tourists give them money it turns them into beggars.
cant quite recall the name of the restaurant.. it was not agip though because we have stopped there as well. all i remember is that one of the items they offered was "hambuggers". made me laugh a bit. i would like to end up in uganda sometime in my life, but have no idea what i would do. i have ties in the buvuma islands (specfically lingira) with some ywam workers and ideally would end up out there. my father has worked on a good number of islands installing water purification systems, which is something i am trying to learn. my parents have a trip scheduled for the summer of 2010 and i am hoping to accompany them..
..and Danny call Scotland home and lived near Mbarara in SW Uganda for 2 years with VSO-UK. Danny volunteered to teach science and IT at a primary teachers college. We returned home October 2009.
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i stop in mbarara every time i am in uganda to eat at a little roadside restaurant that is there. some good eats after being in a motatu all day!! i really envy you guys and hope that i will also be in your position one day. i read your post about how their english is much different than ours, and boy is it true!! i have had a group of kids follow me down the road with hands outstretched saying "give me my money"!! good times. anyways, maybe one day ill bump into you over there.. cheers!
Hi Nate. Curious which restaurant you stop at. Agip is one of our favourites and a popular stop for tourists.
Do you plan to volunteer?
Usually the kids just yell 'mzungu, how are you?' but in certain areas that tourists frequent, the kids will yell 'give me money'. Unfortunately, when tourists give them money it turns them into beggars.
Next visit here?
Those wasps b**tards made a home in the big compost bin last year.
Jerks!
They also made a couple in the loft.
This year, we're getting serious!
If I even see the hint of them, I'm calling Wasp Man. I have his number at the ready.
cant quite recall the name of the restaurant.. it was not agip though because we have stopped there as well. all i remember is that one of the items they offered was "hambuggers". made me laugh a bit. i would like to end up in uganda sometime in my life, but have no idea what i would do. i have ties in the buvuma islands (specfically lingira) with some ywam workers and ideally would end up out there. my father has worked on a good number of islands installing water purification systems, which is something i am trying to learn. my parents have a trip scheduled for the summer of 2010 and i am hoping to accompany them..
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