Friday 2 November 2007

CHOGM and general

Check out Jinja Photos below

Well this week i received an airmail from a lovely lady, she knows who she is :D
Well thankyou very much it was lovely to hear from you
Well to answer a few questions that both my lovely lady asked but also i am sure some others are asking to, i dont think Kampala has changed much in the last 40years so you wouldnt notice much of a change the roads...im sure the same potholes are still here they are massive and are everywhere. They speak Lugandan here because Swahili is more spoken up north and alot of soldiers with gewd old Idi were from the north so Swahili is considered a negative language as it is associated with idi etc so most do not speak any swahili. The cars that we have here are all mostly 4X4's toyota prado's and pajero's which are nasty wee japanese 4X4's but its what you need to travel even through kamapala. Kampala is rather westernised...not quite starbucks and McDonalds thankfully but they have alot of interesting resturaunts, its not like the chinese resturant is run but somebody called stan its all genuine resturaunts. I had a lebonese cheese burger the other day which was really gewd. So yea i eat food from all over the world as African food is pretty nasty, the meat and fish is fine and so are greens which indeed are called greens and that the name. But they have this Matoke plant which is like a banana but it has a disgusting smell and taste but the Ugandans love it and they will eat it breakfast lunch and dinner. They also have Irish which is what they call potatos,just Irish.
So yea thats a basic answer to questions and if you do have any pressing issues that you wish to ask me you should know my email address.
Well onto my pressing issure CHOGM. Indeed i hope you have never heard of this otherwise what i say will be lies. CHOGM is the Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting and this year it is being held in Kampala,Uganda oh what a wonderful day for the people of Uganda as even the queenie is coming Hora!!
Well so because of this Uganda thinks that the rest of the world cares..awww so innocent and sweet Uganda little does it realise that after they spend the Billions and Billions of Shillings on building substandard hotels and fixing the roads(HA might i add as their idea of fixing a road is laughable! u stick a load of mud on it and thats shud be it sorted or they become the seven dwarfs and get axes out and proceed to hack up the road and the fill it full of mud probably or tarmac either will do) that nobody will care as it will not make Uganda out to be the shinning light of Africa and bring thousands to see it. But alas Uganda hasnt yet grasped this idea and so is spending education and health money on CHOGM to try and impress the common wealth but surely if they impress they wont get the much needed help? hmmm Uganda works on the basis of "jobs for the boys" as they will do a job but will do it in such a way it needs somebody else to do something else which needs somebody else to do something else it is just a never ending line of uselessness that keeps everybody in a job doing useless it is quite strange. Well thats my CHOGM rant done ahh wait i forgot CHOGM starts in about 2weeks and the queenie arrives in about 3 and gosh one of the main hotels dosent have any elctricity, they are yet to start work on the rooms, the road to jinja which i took has large 10m deep holes and endless diversions, oh how charles will love that! Well yep i think thats me done, i am sure i shall come back to this CHOGM topic again for another rant on the waist of money!
Love to all and to all happy CHOGM
Guy
P.s i saw an awesome thing the other day as James and i were heading home a mytatu(a taxi minibus) went by on the roundabout no biggey except at the back was a fella on rollerblades hanging on for dear life it was hilarious but he seemed asthough he was enjoying it and actually seemed like he knew what to do, he wasnt wearing the usual inline skates you see he was wearing those classic 70's rollerdisco style skates that youve gota know what your doing in. I asked James and turns out there is a small "gang" of them who on the gaba road which has a hill go down at high speed and then catch lifts back up on whatever vehcile they can. I hope to see this someday and maybe have a go(mother i am merely hoping and severly doubt i shall or will as it looks ridiculosly dangerous)

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