In Luganda this means "slowly, slowly"... which is a perfect description of our day as well as life in Uganda. Life on Molokai prepared me somewhat for this ... but this is moving it to the next level. Take today for example... had to run some errands today and get some supplies from Kampala... here was our time table....
6am ... take the cat out... make coffee and breakfast... get ready... load the car... and wait for Jospehine to come to work to drop Sheba off with.... Hannington visits with Mulongo and the crew to see how the countertops are coming along... John walks up to the top of the property to inspect where they are starting a house
8am... leave the house and drive almost an hour and a half to get a generator... once there they had to pick out a decently made generator... test it out... find the right oil and prime the fuel... dikker on the price... and then wrap it in a box and load it into the truck. (Morning coffee set in and I need to go to the potty but only urinals were found)
10:45... head to the bank to pull out money for the supplies we had to buy... Hannington and Kimberly went in while John and I sat in the truck... there were only 2 people in front of them in line but it took almost 40 minutes (and I really needed to find a potty but the outside toilets were in process of being cleaned)
11:30... leaving bank headed to XingXing furniture store...get stuck in traffic behind the presidents motorcade... finally get to the store...we are dropped off to find furniture for the administrator office while Hannington gets a boda to find some hardware...cooking pots for the new school kitchen... and hire a big flat bed truck to take back desks and chairs for the new classrooms, furniture for my office and other big furniture... waited for them to find cardboard to wrap the furniture ( and I finally found an inside potty to use and even though it was a squatty potty I could wait no longer)
1pm... go by with the flat bed truck to pick up three sets of welded bunkbeds for our workers who are currently sleeping on the floor of the shop and then head to Oasis mall where there was very little security compared to the past few visits... Hannington dropped us and the car off... hires a boda to go to three locations looking for furniture and supplies while we had lunch ... walked over to Garden city,.. found ink cartridges for the printer...office supplies...airtime for phones ... looked at appliances for the new house the walked back over to Oasis to grocery shop at Nakumatt...find Hannington... met with the manager of Bata shoes for Christmas shoes for the little ones ... had ice cream... and went back to Nakumatt to pick up cold items
5:45pm... by this time traffic is getting really bad...took us almost two hours to get Kgas for the cook stove... then run by Tuskers to pick up dinner... and head home...
10:30pm... arrive back to Nabisooto
We had no idea that it would take us this long but thankful we are home safe and sound.
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