This last weekend was a classic example of both the best and worst of Uganda. It was the engagement party of Emily, one of the elders of the church, so a bunch of us squashed into a coaster and trundled off to Kampala for the day.
Where the best of Uganda comes out was in the traditional badboy Ugandan 3 piece band made up of a geeza banging an African drum, another playing the traditional Ugandan guitar and then a complete nutter going raggo on a one string Ugandan violin (see the photo). It was brap-ting, I'm tellin you, serious booty shaking sensations! Of course Emily was looking lovely and then we feasted on a wide range of the best of Ugandan cuisine! Lovely jubley!
HOWEVER....I also experienced the worst of Uganda this day in the form of the classic Ugandan timekeeping! Now River of Life Church is pretty good at time-keeping, unfortunately the rest of Uganda isn't. This meant that we arrived at 11:30am, half an hour before it was supposed to start and then proceeded to sit around for 3 and a half hours waiting for everbody else!! When it did finally start 3 hours late at 3pm, the whole thing was angonisingly slow. The PA kept on breaking down, there was some guy trying to pass the time by cracking jokes that were so crap I wanted to smack him and we didn't eat until about 6:30 (having not eaten anything all day!). I drifted off more than a few times! Finally we left having been there for almost 9 hours and drove back to Masaka. I was NOT amused!!
Thankfully, church was only 4 hours long the next day!!!
5 comments:
Hey there,
great to read the latest installment.
The Crich's have experienced this time keeping wedding thing at the lovely New Testament Church of God in Lee....same thing ...we turn up 30 mins before ceremony..a good 1.5 hrs later a couple of ushers arrived no sign of bride or groom...i had to leave & go to work..blessings on those who keep us waiitng. The band sounds Amazing..would love to have heard it...The Crich's
great to see you looking so livley in your american preacher outfit tim boy! Elaine x
I think there is definitely a grandpa-ish look to the way you sleep Tim. I remember seeing him back in the house in Brussels sprawled on a chair just like that!
The good news is your hair isn't quite as gray as his was at the time.
The french aren't that good at keeping time either.
Do you remember any of the jokes the guy was crackin'?
Hi Guys, how are you? Its zeb! how is Kissa? how are you Duncan and Mary and Edin?
God Bless, I will keep in touch, pls tell kissa my email is zaheer_jaffer@yahoo.com.au
I live in Sydney australia now and have 2 kids and am married!
Bless you!
Barr school, I'm afraid to say my clock is pretty much the same.
Ali. X
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