Road Traffic Accidents, Tequila and Conflict Resolution

A lot has happened over the last few days.

Got massively lashed on Tequila (banter) a couple nights ago at a cool club named Rouge. Was a lot of fun hanging out with the guys there (Rach, Joe, Emma, Guy and Will). The pictures are pretty classic, so look forward to those people!

Rach fell off a boda boda (the drivers fault, not hers) and burnt her leg quite bad, so had to take her to hospital to get it cleaned/dressed. In the taxi on the way to the hospital, we got driven into by a 4x4, which hurt my neck a little, but all was well. How unlucky; two accidents in the space of about hour and a half!

I had my first meeting the next day, with an organisation called Cecore (Center for Conflict Resolution) which went well. The guy was really helpful, though not happy when asked about Ugandan Peacekeeping in Congo, asking that I stop recording and saying "you could be CIA". He gave me a lot of contacts though and some general advice too. We also had some quality "England are shit at football" banter.

Yesterday we went to the National Theatre where there was a local jam session, ranging from trumpet solos (LAME) to all out rastas. There was a double act who put us all very much in the mind of Will and Carlton from Fresh Prince of BelAir.

En route to the theatre we stopped to get 'rolexs' which are omelette wrapped in chapati. I went to another stall and bought some grilled chicken on the bone and asked the guy making them to put the chicken in the rolex. I thought this was a great idea, until he put all the bones in too. He crammed too much in as well, so what I basically ended up with was a bag of greasy mushed up omlette, chapati and chicken carcas. Lekker! Still, it only cost me 1 pound, so can't complain too much I suppose.

I found out yesterday that my deet is out of date as well, which probably explains the hench bites I have all over my hands and elbows. I very much look like I have some sort of hand/elbow lepracy.

Antony arrives today and then Jon tomorrow, so work will be put on hold for a week whilst I tourist it up a bit. After that though I'm heading up to Gulu to get on with stuff. I have an email from someone today who would like to meet me in the Eastern part of the country, and the guy I interviewed the other day suggested I visit the North-West of the country near the Congo border (where Idi Amin's tribe is from) so I should have basically covered the whole country by the time I come home!