In no specific order

June 6, 2010

Things I wont miss about Uganda:

-The shower is cold when it’s cold outside and you want a warm shower and warm when it’s warm outside and you want a cold shower.
-Crossing the road
-Matoke, posho, rice…
-Makerere Bulliversity and many of the lecturers there
-The creepy guy missing a tooth in Wandegeya (that eventually understood he can’t just randomy grab white girls’ asses and boobs, but still tries sometimes…)
-Shooting behind my back at campus and riots/violent strikes
-The ants and cockroatches in my room (and the other weird bugs i don’t know what is called)
-The music from Katanga
-The cat that keep peeing on my things
-«You are lost» and «You are scarce»
-The poor internet connection
-«You’re fat!»
-The pollution, the traffic jams and the traffic in general
-Storks
-My matress at Akamwesi
-The mosquito net over my bed
-Doing my laundry by hand
-The Constitition of the State of Uganda, CEDAW, DEVAW, ICCPR, ICESCR, UDHR etc etc
-Beeping

-etc etc etc

Things I will miss about Uganda:

-Crispy, greasy chapatti with banana and nutella on a Saturday morning
-Having about five guys telling me they love me, every day
-Beer at 6 NOK
-All the beautiful people
-Second hand dress shopping
-30 degrees – every day!
-All the kids in Katanga (can I bring them home??)
-The monkeys, giraffes, elefants hippoes, crocs – you get the picture.. and the goats and cows at campus.
-Things come to you, like bed sheets in a bar or food in the bus window or matatus wherever you want to go
-Sweet potato at Vet Canteen
-Laughing with Ingrid, for various reasons from joy to hopelessness
-Pizza at Mamba Point, expencive but worth it…
-Having the whole cinema for ourself when watching movies
-John, Freeman, Ricky and the other guards at Akamwesi – you always make me smile :)
- etc etc etc

Things I look forward to in Norway:

-Kroneis med sjokolade
-Having a fridge, with food in it!
-Good coffee
-Studying, with books…
-UiB and Bergen in general
-My family :)
-Mum’s whole cooked salmon/trout with sourcream, cucumber salad and potato
-Trulte :) She is really included in my family doh!
-Working at the gym and generally working out again…
-Walking up Fløien an early, crisp morning
-Cold, good water from the tap
-Seeing all my beautiful friends again
-Long summer nights
-Hansa in the park with Marte :)
-Spinning with Linn :)
-Travelling to Melbourne to see George :) (hmm, does this count for Norway?)

-etc etc etc

And the lists could go on and on and on…. You feel like I have forgotten something? Please feel free to add more…

Cruising home, not on a BodaBoda this time...

One Response to “In no specific order”

  1. Ingrid said

    hahahaha, jeg ler høyt. Jeg gleder meg til å mimre tilbake sammen med deg en veldig vakker dag. Ble du overrasket over kommentar på bloggen din nå?

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