Kamwokya, Minister of Agriculture and Ndere

Warning: If my spelling is off this time around, it's because I'm screwed when I can't rely on auto-spelling, auto-correcting etc.

But anyway, yesterday we visited the peer educators at Treasure Life Centre, a branch of KCCC in the slums in Kamwokya, Kampala.. And while there, when we walked around the area, about five of us passed the music studio of "The Fire Base Crew", which Bobbi Wine, probably Ugandas most famous music artist, is a part of. It sounds kind of funky having a music studio in the middle of a slum, but Kamwokya is kind of strange that way. We met Bobbis right hand man, "the minister of agriculture" which is a fitting title concidering what he was smoking when we met him. It was a totally bizarre experience, because suddenly he began to speak of his crusade against homosexuality, and how his next songs would be about how being gay is an abomination and how it's destroying Ugandan culture etc. Polite as we are, we did not persue that discussion, but it served as a pretty clear reminder of just how different Uganda actually is to the western world. Something you should not forget if you're in the business of successful aid work.

After visiting Kamwokya we went to a place in Ntinda, called Ndere, without really having any clue what was going on there, other than some "Ugandan Culture Stuff". Turned out it was a 25 years old performance group called The Ndere Group, that put up a show with traditional dancing and music from different parts of Uganda. It was pretty cool, and at one point, we the audience, was dancing with the group at stage as well. But what was really brilliant was having pork and chips at the same time as watching the music group.

Today people are preparing to leave Kampala, buying stuff that will be needed at their work places, the students going to Nsumba Orphanage are for instanse having an art project to generate money back to the orphanage, and are buying all sorts of equipment to see that through.

And speaking of buying stuff and fixing things, I need to find an ATM. So then I'm off!