I confess, it’s a long time since I learned any new Luganda words. However, now that I live in Kamwenge, I should be learning Rutoro.
Agandi!

Yes it seems you agree with me, life in the UK is boring compared to life in Uganda! LOL.

Hi Rogeth
Webale kusiima 🙂 and Happy New Year.
This year’s Christmas on the edge of Kibale Forest was a quiet one (apart from the chimps!) I was too ill with malaria to celebrate – or write about – New Year. Thankfully I’m better now…
I wrote about Christmas in Kibale for the Expat section of the Daily Telegraph website one year. Read “A balmy (and barmy) Christmas in a Ugandan forest.” I don’t like the title, the editor chose it.
You might also enjoy a story I wrote about some of the things I miss from the UK in “Marks & Spencer, how I miss thee.” (Marks and Spencer is a famous chain of stores that you find in all big towns).
I think the favourite article I wrote for the Daily Telegraph is the one about my first years in Uganda “Life in Uganda: a dog named Baldrick and a mouse in my fridge.”

yeah then i see, and BTW when are you writing about this Christmas and new year’s eves..am your big fan reading all your experiences in east africa. And possibly if you could write about your home country to give us a feeling of how life is there may be like a comparison thing

Absolutely! It may seem like a small thing but it would be embarrassing for tourists to arrive and the toilet not to be swept (or for there simply not be anyone there to give access).
Agatha is a working farmer and not always on site.
This is one of the challenges of community tourism in rural areas: villagers may wait patiently for days waiting for tourists and no-one comes. We need to give them advance warning so that they are free to tend their crops – until they know tourists are definitely coming. Then they are prepared 🙂