Nile Breweries v Entebbe Mongers

Joined the Jinja Rugby Club last week (sponsored by Nile Breweries) - part of the Uganda Rugby Union:

http://www.ugandarugby.com/index.php?page=team&i=5

Jinja Vocational Center Construction Begins

For the past week, our staff and volunteers living in Jinja have been working side by side with Ugandans to build a fence surrounding the future site of the Jinja Vocational Center. The three acre plot is 10 kilometers north of Jinja sitting on the eastern bank of the Nile River. Team USA (namely Chris Petty, Clayton Collie, and James King) combined with Team Uganda (Geoffrey, Salim, and Simon) to form a fence-building dream team by the name of “Team Jinjavitis”. Armed only with hoes, spears, and determination we managed to construct the 150 pole barb wire fence in 7 days. A few local children shared interest in helping with the construction and got their hands dirty with the rest of the crew digging holes and teaching the Mzungus (the East-African word for European, or anyone with white skin) a few words and numbers in their native language - Lusoga.

This fence marks the beginning of the newest vocational center the UAPO will build to benefit the Ugandan people. The purpose of the center will be to educate and train local women in everything from crafts to leadership skills. Construction for the center is currently scheduled to begin in March 2011.

Check out the website: http://theuapo.org/

An African Halloween

International Superwoman and Jesus (as everyone here calls me).

Our Housekeeper/Real Estate Tycoon

Where's Waldo?

We drove about 10 hours North (almost to the border of Sudan) to Pajule last week to check out our organizations operations up there. After work we managed to get in about 3.7 seconds of Ultimate Frisbee before being swarmed by a gaggle of locals. Having never seen a frisbee before, they though I was some kind of magician who could make things float through the air (my wizard's beard didn't help disprove this theory).

Do you like the taste of my AASWAD?

Showcased above is the infamous Punjabi Thali - flagship of Jinja's finest Indian establishment: AASWAD. Complete with (clockwise from top left) dhal, vegetable rice, paneer masala, onion and tomato, TURBO NAAN (with everything but the kitchen sink), and some taco shell-type-thing that Cash McMogulson would never eat.

At this point this is 1/7 of what goes into my body...I walk in and say "The regular Baboo. Thank you please."

Testing Out the New Kitchen

Although the new kitchen has very limited amenities, it now has two new member who, when put together, make one really good cook.

Princess Mal in Kampala

Malli taking a Boda Boda ride through the capital of Uganda. She's been very elusive lately, but luckily this bearded photographer (seen in rear-view mirror) was able to track her down...although it couldn't have been too hard since she's the only blondie on the continent.

A Taste of Uganda

Typical Ugandan Cuisine: Matooke (banana looking thing), Pumpkin, Beans, Rice, mystery green veggies, and of course enough Cholula to take down a horse...a symphony of flavor. We came over with 11 bottles of the stuff and, after a week, are down to 9...

Plot 17 Nilecrescent

Jinja, Uganda

Help...

Hair Mayonnaise

Our new boss. He runs a pretty tight ship.