Progress at last!

I’m now living in a place called Kansanga, nearby where Sam and Abby live. It is a very interesting house about 17 people live here. Rachel has a room with ensuite and is the only Mzungu (white person) in the house. The people in the house are really friendly if not a little crazy, half of them are musicians and out and about with all there bling on! The house is owned by a lady called Mama Lala, who owns a bar. Also there are three dogs, which are constantly causing destruction, there is a new puppy called Friday (in the picture with Rachel) that is not trained at all and destroys everything, yesterday he chewed right through the wire of the iron. Mama Lala said that if he didn’t improve she is putting rat poison down for him?
On Saturday after being dropped off went into town to sort out my Ugandan phone and then Rachel too me too meet her friend Mary and her family. She is Greek but was born in Fort Portal, Uganda. She owns a hotel in Kampala called the Athina. She is a very interesting lady and told me lots of interesting stories about her life and all the times she met Idi Amin and the political history of Uganda. It turned into a pretty crazy day because while we were with Mary having a few drinks in her Hotel Garden, the doctor came to see her elderly Uncle and decided he needed to go to the hospital. So in the end we ended up taking Mary to the hospital and helping her sort some things out there.
Yesterday (Sunday) was much more chilled out. I needed to check some emails so we went in search of some wireless, my friends told me there was some by the US embassy. Sheila (Mama Lala’s daughter) came with us, so we got a matutu (minibus) because Sheila could make sure we got a good price. We found the place, it was called Le Chateau and a lot smarter than we were expecting. It was really confusing as several places told us there was no wireless but eventually we found there was. But we were suppose to have food, we smiled very sweetly and persuaded them to let us have two hours if we bought some drinks.
During that time we decided to cook stew for tea as they had really nice vegetables for sale there in the shop and to go to Rachel’s friend Ali’s flat to cook it and watch TV that evening. We got home quite late and went to bed as we had a lot planned for today.
Today, we got up and as it was finally a work day. I made lots of calls to all the people I had contacts for and managed to make quite a lot of appointments. Robert’s contact Mary from the Education Standards Agency was incredibly helpful and I can tell is going to be a real help for other contacts. So now I have written this we are going to find some internet to do lots of sorting out and post this, then we are going in search of the Actionaid office as I can’t get them on the phone and the office is near here.
We need to do a bit of sorting out today as Ali is going away for a week tomorrow and we are going to house sit for him in his flat. Also I have three appointments tomorrow all in different parts of the city.