Kathrine in Bushenyi: Giveaway, work plan and more

Some updates from Bushenyi:

Give away is a party in Uganda, arranged by the parents of the bride, before her wedding. It is quite many traditional things happening through the ceremony. The man must go down and “find his match” among several women (traditionally the ladies we’re all covered up, so only the eyes were bare. I wonder how he could be so sure to point out the right one, unless they agreed she would do some secret signalling or something like that?... ;-)

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Since New Year, we’ve had a new work plan here in Bushenyi that we are very happy with. Originally it looks something like this:

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Just letting ya’ll know some reasons to frustrations down here. In my short period of stay, I’ve had a broken laptop (screen smashed, so borrowed a monitor from a friend from time to time). The MP3 player stopped functioning. My music with several hundred songs on the computer disappeared as several programs on my laptop refused to function (ended up with having to delete it all, to free space, as the hard disk was completely full, and I could not even burn things to CDs).

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