Boda-Bodas and Fast City Action
Hello All,
My friend Anya and I arrived yesterday in Kampala, Uganda and it has been quite an experience to see the big city! The best I can describe it is as huge, busy, and yet not exactly urban in that there are shacks and dirt roads everywhere of the kind I would expect in a small village.
Driving in this city is absolutely insane! Where there are traffic lights, they are not really followed by the drivers, and they are mostly absent anyway. There are “boda-bodas,” or motorcycle-taxis zooming in and out everywhere, and cars, boda-bodas and people come extremely close to each other on the roads. Twice I saw cars labeled as student-driver cars, and I felt horrible for anyone who would have to learn how to drive in this city!
Otherwise things have been going very smoothly, thanks to the Nyaka staff here in the city. Sempa and James picked us up from the airport, and have helped to get everything organized for out time out in the village. I will hopefully have internet connection, though very slow, and I will also have a cell phone.
I am extremely excited for tomorrow and finally getting to the village! We will get on a bus early tomorrow morning and it will take about 7 or 8 hours to get there. I have a feeling the bus will be an adventure in itself. I have to say I’m looking forward to it!
Hopefully my next update will be from Nyakagyezi!
