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Postcard from Uganda: August 2009
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Monday, 31 August 2009. More photos of flowers! This was the 2nd training session for the flower making project, but it was very different from the first one. For starters the group was quite small, only 19 in total and they were all women. This group of CORPs are quite well known - they have set up a women only goat rearing business, they have over 100 goats! And maize porridge are pretty hard to stomach when they're hot, but when it's cold it's revolting! Though I think they got the gest of it. Above: ...
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Postcard from Uganda: Mushroom picking at HCU
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Saturday, 1 May 2010. Mushroom picking at HCU. These photos are of the HCU staff picking mushrooms in the flower beds in the compound. The mushrroms apparently appear annually in early December and last for about 3 days. They seemed quite literally to come from nowhere and grew inches high over night! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The views expressed on this blog are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of VSO or the organisation I work for. Bers visit.travels around Uganda.
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Postcard from Uganda: December 2009
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Saturday, 12 December 2009. What's green, crispy, quite greasy and very salty? A big juicy fried Ugandan grasshopper! Think I'll stick to Pringles! Mid-November is marked by the arrival of lots of grasshoppers and people get very excited.everyone at work was eagerly awaiting them! Along with white ants they are considered a real delicacy and highly nutritous, they're eaten as a snack. They are called. I assumed they were deep fried but was told they are dry fried and that they have lots of natural oil!
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Postcard from Uganda: October 2009
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Friday, 30 October 2009. Invasion of the ants. Many of you reading this will know I'm not a big fan of creepy crawlies of any kind, so to say I freaked is putting it mildly! They were all over the floor, some dead, some still wiggling away - unfortunately (! Once they've lost their wings they die pretty quickly and are not too lively! The pile I swept up .there were piles of wings outside the front door too! Patricia outside the office with flowers she made. Thursday, 8 October 2009. We got lots of 'funn...
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Postcard from Uganda: September 2010
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Friday, 17 September 2010. Kato, with his mum came to visit us at the project office when he returned from Kampala at the end of June. It was so good to see both him and his mum smiling, they were like two completely different people, they were so much more relaxed and talkative, and like all Ugandan children Kato loved having his photo taken. Kato and Macklean came along to a nutrition training workshop I was doing in their parish. Kato enjoying a his lunch of matoke, beans, greens and pumpkin. While I ...
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Postcard from Uganda: Ber's visit....travels around Uganda
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Tuesday, 11 May 2010. Ber's visit.travels around Uganda. To say I was excited about Ber coming to visit, would be putting it mildly. I'd been counting down the days since it was day 146 (no joke)! She was my first visitor in Uganda so I was really looking forward to showing her the sights.and I'd missed her so much! Back in the UK we'd see each other regularly and chat on the phone for hours, so a good catch up session was well overdue! Some of the many zebras we saw on an early morning game walk at Lake...
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Postcard from Uganda: Kato Mathias
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Friday, 17 September 2010. Kato, with his mum came to visit us at the project office when he returned from Kampala at the end of June. It was so good to see both him and his mum smiling, they were like two completely different people, they were so much more relaxed and talkative, and like all Ugandan children Kato loved having his photo taken. Kato and Macklean came along to a nutrition training workshop I was doing in their parish. Kato enjoying a his lunch of matoke, beans, greens and pumpkin. With tha...
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Postcard from Uganda: June 2009
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Saturday, 20 June 2009. Anyone for a cup of tea? I got a really enthusiastic welcome from the group, they were very happy to hear me speak the few limted phrases that I have now learned in Runyankole (the local regional language)! Though it's bit off putting that whenever I say anthing in Runyankole people just laugh, so I'm always left guessing as to whether I've said something inappropriate or misprounced a word! On my way to and from work I always try (! U has a camera! Friday, 12 June 2009. Left: Ber...
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Postcard from Uganda: May 2009
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Sunday, 31 May 2009. A week of new experiences. This is ingenius, and such a good idea! I've been in Mbarara 2 weeks now, I'm enjoying being here and am settling in well. Mbarara is very different to Masindi in many ways (it's considered the 2nd city in Uganda) - it's far bigger, with lots of shops, especially mobile phone shops, the main street is lined with them! Oh, there's also a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - not tried it out yet, but I'm intending to at some point. And got to witness the C...
