Kampala is freaking sweet!

Antony, Jon, Nicole and I went for a proper look around Kampala the other day, which was a lot of fun. It's a really cool city if you look a little deeper than the main road. We walked around for a long time, and then ended up at Nandos! I had a double chicken burger - I'm not going to lie, its the best moment of the trip so far!!!

That night we met quite a lot of new people at the hostel including a very very interesting Ugandan guy who works in Sudan, about whom more will be written later. He is possibly the scariest looking guy I have ever seen in my life though, but he is also a really nice guy. We went out with him, and his friend Joel who is a student in Kampala, and some English guys who have just arrived in Kpa. We went to a club called Iguana which played incredibly loud shit dance music, but we had a lot of fun there, although one of the English guys got his wallet robbed, and another woke up in the morning with cuts all over his legs and a massive hole in his jeans, but with no memory of how this happened. I think he most probably fell off a boda boda.

Jon and I had a great deal of fun squeezing onto our boda, though Jon almost fell off, but managed to hold it at the last moment!

The next day Jon Nicole Antony Nadia and I (and we met Rach, Joe and Emma and Joel too) went to the Victoria Cup (a rugby match between Uganda and Kenya). Kenya cained Uganda though both teams were pretty awful to be honest! The best part was the celebrations at the end where all the kenyan team and fans spontaneously started dancing and singing together on the pitch!

Last night, after the Rugby, Jon Nicole and I went to a bar for the spain match where we met up with everybody again. The Sudanese guy and his girlfriend came too.

Jon and Nicole went home after the game but the rest of us went out to Iguana again. Most people left very early on, but the Sudanese guy, his girlfriend (Fiona) and I went to another club across town. This guy is seriously about 6"4 and built like a muscle builder, but we all somehow managed to fit on one boda boda, so with the driver, it meant there were four of us on one bike!

The club we went to was very cool (its turkish owned so lots of people were smoking sheesha) and there weren't many white people. A woman started 'dancing' with me, though honestly, its unlike any other form of dancing I have ever seen before, and basically seemed to be fully clothed sex. Was a little strange, but it made the sudanese guy and his girlfriend laugh a lot!

I have learnt quite a few key phrases in Luganda now, from Fiona, including - 'Drive Slowly' and 'How much? Thats too expensive!' which tells you a bit about what Kampala is like!

Today Jon Nicole and I met with Fred, a Ugandan guy who drinks at the bar down the road where we go, and he took us to a cultural show that is on at the moment to promote the history and culture of Buganda (which is a kingdom within Uganda). It was really good, with lots of stalls, music and food. It was also full of Ugandan families out for the day and we only saw one other white person which was odd, because it was exactly the kind of thing you would expect to be full of whites.

Tomorrow morning Jon, Antony, Nicole, Nadia, Zoe (who is arriving tonight) and I are going to Jinja to raft on the nile, which is going to be awesome!

Bad news: My wash bag has been nicked. I thought I was starting to get tanned, but I showered for the first time in two days borrowing Jon's shower gel, and it was all dirt. I am in fact still as pale as a Glaswegian in winter. Lame.