Messzelátó Egyesület

On Friday we visited another primary school in order to have some view about their education. It was 100 km away from Kampala, in a very rural area. Maybe that's why we were accepted as stars. When we arrived, the 200 children composed two walls and we walked through between them when they were clapping. Later we had to sit in some big chair (like thrones) and the students made a 1 hour show with dances and singing. Finally we could not see the lessons, though that was the main aim to visit the school. Later we had a very good lunch and visited a pineapple farm. Did you know that the pineapple is a small bush? It's maximum 1 m high. Anyway, the pineapples are so good here.

Later we went to Jinja, which is 80 km far from Kampala but in the other direction. The roads are quite bad here and around and in Kampala there is a permanent traffic jam, so it took 5 hours to go there. We slept in a hotel (with hot water!) and the other day visited the White Nile and its source – which is the Lake Victoria. The White Nile is a famous rafting place – it looks quite cool, it is one of the main tourist attractions in Uganda. Maybe I will use my birthday rafting coupon there. The source of Nile originally was a little fall, where the Nile started its 6400 km way (on which the water reaches the sea in 3 months), but today you can not really see it, because the water level raised due to the hydropower dam – which actually provide almost all the electric energy in Uganda.

Then we went for the wedding which was in a nice hotel. It was supposed to start at 3, but nothing happened until 5, when we had to leave. So I missed the chance to see a Ugandan wedding, which is according to our guides, quite similar to the European ones. The main difference is that here usually the friends give together the money for the wedding in a pre-wedding party.

Some words about the food:

For breakfast we usually eat bread with butter, Daniel sometimes puts some sugar on it to have the feeling that he eats jam. For lunch and dinner we eat some of the followings: matoke – cooked banana without taste, sweet potato – without taste, poso – cassava (a root of a plant) flower pasta – it is quite good, beans – they are very good, nut sauce – which looks disgusting but quite ok, and sometimes potato (which is called Irish potato here). And they have the marvelous chopati, which is a thick pancake.