Muzungu!

So I'm sat again in this little internet cafe,this time there is a tape playing describing the way a lion lives. Very strange.

Since I last wrote I've been thrown further into Ugandan life, and loving it more and more every day as I gradually learn about the slow way people live here.

On the 18th we hopped on bodas (small motorcycles) to Lake Bunyonyi, which is stunning place, with hundreds of islands, apparently its 900m deep, making it the second deepest lake in Africa, but I'm not sure how true this is, you really can't believe everything you read or hear here. and the landscape would suggest otherwise. So we stayed for 3 nights right on the lake side, in a little hut attached to the school there.
I'm finding it hard to think what to write here,as I'm still feeling overwhelmed by eveything, so I'm just going to write somelittle bits from my diary, and hoipefully you will get an idea of what it's like here.

20/01/13 LAKE BUNYONYI
  There's a jetty here, with the sun shinig on it, there's a breeze in the trees and the water is lapping on the shore. The locals all have large canoes carved from tree trunks, the little children row them up and down the lake. Yesterday, right in front of us, one boy tried to take down another canoe with 4 boys sat in it by crashing in to  the side of them. There was a lot fo shouting and laughing, before they headed off again in opposit directions. The children here really know how to have fun. When Sam and I took a canoe over top the otherside of the lake to climb the hill there, a group of young children soon sniffed out the muzungus and followed us up. One girl, of about 4 was carrying her young sister of about 1 on her back, I was shocked at just how strong there little bodies are. I was sweating and out of breath, and she seemed unphased.

21/01/13 LAKE BUNYONYI
Been here 3 nights now, everything seems to have slowed down somehow, although the last few days have gone pretty fast, I feel like I've been here a long time. On our first morning we got up at 7am to watch the sun rising. It was so overcast you couldn't actually see the sun, but somehow it still managed to be the most beautiful 7am I've ever seen.

Lake Bonyonyi is filled with crayfish, no other fish, but thousnads of crayfish. Yesterday we saw a man pull up to the jetty we were sat on, in his big canoe, and procceed to untie and haul 4 large wicker nets/crates full of crayfish, without even slightly rocking the boat.

There seems to be always either music or drums playing constantly from the villages around our little section of the lake. There is always the sound of voices and laughter,carried on the breeze across the lake.



Thank you for everyone's comments on my last blog. Joe Wilkinson, you are a comic genius. I was sat laughing out loud to myself. However, don't expect my writing to get any better, I'm not planning on checking through what I write, I'll leave that up to youy! I don't feel like I'm doing this blog justice, so I'm going to stop.Although since Bonyonyi I have been to Kisoro, and nearby Lake Mutunda, both are spectacular. I will write again soon, and upload some photos, not surprisingly I have already built up a rather large collection! Might not get on again until I get to Kampala, which will be the middle of next week. I'm off to the Ssese islands with Sam (a PT volunteer who's been here since September and knows the ropes) tomorrow for a few nights. Calum is off to climb mt Elgon with 2 other volunteers.

VEEEEEEEERy nearly lost all of that just now, when the power cut out and everything turned off.. but somehow it restored my session,. thank goodness,I think I might've cried!

Hope you're all well, thinking of you as I'm sat here in the sun, as you're shivering in -5'C, hope you get some snow!