Thursday, August 6, 2009

Day 69: Another Random Day in Uganda

SO this week has gone by with lightening speed. I just realized I haven't updated in a week. Ah well...thank God this time is moving!

Anyways, yesterday (Thursday) was so random but yet typical for a Uganda day

In guesthouse foolishness: The guy at the guesthouse, the one who was eyeing my phone, was up to his pathological lying ways. He had excuses for why our breakfast was terrible as usual. So we usually get eggs (fried), fruit (bananas, mangoes, or pineapple), chapatti (a flat bread) and tea. So he comes to room, the bananas are black and some are split open and the chappatti is clearly a day old because its hard and cold. So I eat the eggs and we give him the rest back. Here's the conversation that ensues:

My roommate: "We can't eat that chapatti, its stale"
Guy: "oh" and mumbles under his breathe some excuse.
Me: "What?" so he can speak up (I know he has no valid excuse but I just want to hear what he has to say this time)
Guy: "Um...(stuttering and clearly lying)...the chapatti man deceived me"
Me: "huh?"
Guy: "The chapatti man told me they were fresh, but I don't know where to get fresh chappatti from. The boy (a teenage boy that helps clean the guesthouse and who he blames everything that goes wrong) knows where the fresh chapatti is"
Boy: (who happened to be standing within ear shot) "This man is a fake" laughs
Me: (laughing) What?
Boy: This man is a fake. He doesn't know where the fresh chapatti is.

So I kinda left the conversation at that. Because the boy's english isn't too good so I think he was trying to say the guesthouse guy is a liar. Also its a shame because remember how our stuff was getting stolen? (See Day 53) The guy was tryna blame the boy then too. Knowing he can't speak good english and defend himself or even understand what we are saying half the time. This dude is shady I tell ya...straight shady....

So right after this happened, we're walking down the street and we see these guys being led by a police officer....in handcuffs. Yup just walking down the street in groups of two with a police officer holding his rifle to keep them in line.


Right as we saw this we see a group of three goats...one pregnant just coming down the street. Yup...typical...random Ugandan Day

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