Six Months of Knowledge

Living the Good Life in the U.G. 

We have just passed our 6 month anniversary of our arrival here in Kampala.  After reviewing of our time I’ve come up with the following list of lessons learned. 

Things I’ve learned in my first 6 months

•   Wear sunglasses and avoid eye contact with the traffic police so when they try to pull you over you can pretend you didn’t see them and keep driving.

•   Guinness Foreign Stout is not the same as Guinness. 

•  When buying Raybans from a vendor it’s a good idea to buy two because they will soon be broken. 

•    Although you have to obey the traffic laws, motorcycles and farm animals do not. 

• When playing chicken with a baboon I will lose. 

•  “I’m coming” can mean I’ll be there in a few days.

•  Playing in the Nile is Awesome but the Bilharzia sickness you get a month later sucks.

•  When buying something always ask for a bonus.  

•    If you have furniture made it will probably look nothing like what you asked for.   

•   You can transport anything on the back of a boda (motorcycle).

•   Storks kind of freak me out.

•   Anything can pass as a foreign drivers license (a friend of mine uses his tae kwon do id).

•   When it looks like your kids are playing with a rubber lizard it’s actually a real but dead lizard.