Monday, 17 October 2011

Random shots from this past week

My 'football' practice with Coach Mubarek.  All the local kids from school  crowd around us  and laugh at us.   Mubarek has taught me how to do the rainbow.  We have practice 3-4 times per week.

Luke doing 'laps' at the pool.  There is only one pool in Gulu and this is the one.  We are lucky because the pool is at the end our street.  We try and go to the pool as much as we can.  We often meet up with our friends.

This is our housekeeper doing a traditional 'Acholi' dance.  She is in the blue shirt.  We were invited to see her performance last Friday.

Tilapia getting stacked in the market for a shipment to Sudan.  This guy standing beside the fish stacked all of them by himself.  Crazy!  

Same guy.  Look he's happy!

5 comments:

  1. We miss you guys but we're happy that you are happy!

    Ugla, Egill, Bjorg

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  2. Why do people laugh when you play soccer Thomas? hugh

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  3. Hi Hugh - they laugh because they have never seen two "muno" kids playing soccer before. "Muno" or "Muzungo" means white person. I walk down the street and people will yell at me "Muno, Muno" or "Hey Muzungo!"

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  4. hey there thomas across the world!

    are the fish dry? how does he dry the fish? is it super humid there in africa? i see that the grass is nice and green in the picture of your housekeeper dancing. I imagine it is hot and muggy.

    from, tristan (simon and elliot's dad)

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  5. Hey Tristan - They smoke the fish so yes they are dry. It is very warm here. If the power is there, we have the fan on every night in our bedroom. The power goes off alot here. And by alot we mean alot. Like alot. You know what alot means? Well here it means alot more than alot. Get it?

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