Just a few pictures from my trip to Kyenjojo, which is where I will be staying for the next month with a host family.
Boda Bodas are motorcycle taxies. As Peace Corps volunteers, we are not authorized to use these, too dangerous, but Ugandans think nothing of loading up armfuls of stuff and hopping on for a cheap ride home. I've seen mothers with babies, three or four people on one bike, drivers carrying loads better suited for a pickup truck... if there's a will, they make it happen. It would be comical to watch if I were not fearful for their lives!
The street venders are cool to watch too. Our bus stopped in this roadside town and we were swarmed with people selling food and sodas. Our trainers told us not to buy their food because it would be old and dusty. If you want street food, you need to go to the person doing the cooking and buy it hot off the grill. The vender in the next picture is standing on the roadside with a platter of stewered chicken on his head. In the third picture, another vender is holding up a platter to the truck driver and the Boda Bodas are just waiting for their next customer. People are just all over the street. And this is not a side road, this is the main (only) road from Kampala to Fort Portal. No highway system here!
I will post pictures of my host family soon when I can figure out how to buy more internet access for my computer (those pictures were taken with an actual camera and uploaded to the computer). This post is coming from my iPhone because I took these shots with the iPhone. The technology is here, I just haven't quite figured it all out.
Ogenda kurungi (wish you safe travels).
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