{"id":2702,"date":"2022-07-15T14:47:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T12:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icanbeme.space\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2022-08-30T17:43:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:43:52","slug":"travels-uganda-trip-2019-episode-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icanbeme.space\/index.php\/2022\/07\/15\/travels-uganda-trip-2019-episode-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Travels: Uganda Trip 2019 \u2013 Episode 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Uganda Trip 2019 \u2013 Episode 8: <\/strong>
Kampala \u2013<\/strong><\/strong> Uganda’s Capital<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pricky was so kind to invite me to her home for the last night I stayed in Uganda. She lives in Kampala \u2013 Uganda’s capital \u2013 and works at the local Statistics Bureau, which we briefly visited.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Kampala Statistics Bureau
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Upon arrival on Friday, Pricky showed me around in the capital. It was quite overwhelming! So many people and so much pollution! What I found interesting, is that, while outside the capital I was looked at and called \u201cMzungu<\/a>\u201d, here people additionally tried to touch me our my hair on the street. I didn’t find that, nor the crowdedness disturbing, although I think that’s because I knew it’s only going to be one day and I approached that more with my curiosity than a need of convenience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kampala
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Yet again, Pricky kindly assisted me in a final African outfit shopping tour, where we both bought the same dress \ud83d\ude42 . One of my dresses was adapted to my body right there by la lady with a sewing machine. Actually, the shopping tour was really painful, since I had caught a stomach bug just a couple of days before (I still don’t know how). This caused me having to run to the toilet unpredictably and at the most inconvenient places. So it happened that I felt I couldn’t hold it back the middle of the shopping trip in malls that weren’t equipped with public toilets like I am used to from “Western” ones. I told Pricky about the urgency and she asked the vendors, who luckily pointed us toward a staff toilet. This was kind of like a little hole in the wall, no lights and really dirty. Of course also with no toilet paper. I was so relieved that I didn’t need to poo in my pants, which is why I didn’t bother about the circumstances though! And thankfully I had enough tissues with me! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our painful but successful shopping tour
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We drove through Kampala again on Boda bodas<\/a>. And I bought some limes on the market which were less than 50 Cents for 10 pieces!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My lime booty
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Pricky’s husband was on a business trip, but I was lucky enough to meet her kids. She also had a guard for her house, which apparently was quite normal for comparatively well-paid people in Kampala. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Pricky’s kids
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On Saturday morning, we drove to her mom and ate lunch together with her family (kids, mom, sisters). I felt so incredibly blessed to be introduced to so many aspects about Ugandans’ daily lives!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pricky’s family
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Pricky took me to the airport, where I met some other summer school participants for taking the same flight home. Rogers came too to say Good Bye, and so Pricky him and me hugged for a long time! Thank you again for making these two weeks such a wonderful experience! Your kindness and openness was very inspiring!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luckily, I flew back via Vienna (my home town), so I could eat some Punschkrapfen<\/a>, an Austrian dessert, and finally drink some good coffee<\/a> (potentially imported from Africa haha!). I was also lucky in the sense that my long haul flights included two suitcases, so I could easily stuff all my new outfits into my baggage allowance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The flight back to Berlin (from Entebbe via Vienna)
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Thank you for reading my Uganda stories \u2013 I hope you could get a little sense of how inspiring this trip was for me! In fact, I was really sad to leave …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigate through the Table of Contents to read earlier episodes of this Uganda trip:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
  1. Prologue & Epilogue<\/a> <\/li>
  2. 29hrs from Berlin to Masaka<\/a> <\/li>
  3. First lecture & Shopping in Masaka<\/a> <\/li>
  4. Food & Drinks<\/a><\/li>
  5. Ugandan Steam Bath & BBQ<\/a> <\/li>
  6. Off to Ssese islands <\/a><\/li>
  7. A Nature Walk on Ssese Islands<\/a><\/li>
  8. African Braids<\/a><\/li>
  9. Kampala \u2013 Uganda’s Capital<\/li><\/ol> \n\n\n\n
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    Written by Julia Heuritsch <\/em>| Last edited: 15th July 2022<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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