Friday, June 20, 2008 1:55PM

Yesterday was exhausting. I was able to get to the internet café in the centerof town, but I paid for it on the way back to Mpererwe with traffic. Let's talk about traffic for a moment. New York City traffic is pretty bad; I've been stuck in Friday rush hour traffic for a long time, but it endseventually. Kampala traffic, on the other hand starts at 7am and goes to 10am and then begins again at 4:30pm and goes until about 10pm. And traffic means people sitting in their cars with the engines off for hours at a time while waiting for the car ahead of them to move. Then, when things start moving again, there is a blast of dust and exhaust that lasts for about a minute, before things stop again. Try doing that for an hour or two.

I don't want to seem like I am a complainer, I think that I am just realizing the stark differences between living in a first world country and a third world country. For example, today, the tap ran out of water. I'm not sure what that means for the future, but we have some rain right now so maybe that will help. In order to explain some of the differences that I am experiencing, I decided to take some pictures, kinda like a how to speak Australian, but in Luganda. I've included some other pictures as well. Probelm is, they arent loading right now... will try to get them on soon.