Juancho in Uganda

Is still 4th of july for a couple more minutes in Kampala. We got to see the fireworks at the US recreation club even though the ex-pat environment from official workers is not really the thing that accommodates best with my personality. We also got to walk for quite some time and eat some rice pilau in a small restaurant. Tomorrow Gibson and I are planning to go to the Uganda Museum and check the requisites to climb Mt. Elgon, which should take us 4 days after the end of the UVP program. It should be a really cool to that with other 5 people at the beginning of August.

The village had an interesting experience yesterday with our family planning day and the supposed building of a fence around a bore hole. At the end the villagers didn't show up for the fence but promised to do it by themselves today and also collect some money to do mechanical repairs before it completely breaks down. It gives me hope for the sustainability portion since it means that they are using their local resources a lot and not depending on the Mzungu.

New batch of arepas was made yesterday with an improved thinner version and more handling of the dough. They came excellent to my taste and to the delight of our cook and even one of my team members. An interesting story happened during the Uruguay-Ghana game due to the African excitement from everybody. We got to see it in box seats! Translation: It was so packed that we got a handle of a couple of soda bottle plastic boxes and sat on them for the whole lenght of time among a hugely packed balcony. As you may imagine the sad faces were rampant after the end of the game. So far I have not watched much of the soccer due to the lack of access in Bunio, but I will definitely stay the night in Iganga to see the final.