Everything is possible in Uganda!

I do like what it means between the lines when someone uses this sentence. Somehow, when I use it myself, I always accompany it with a puppy-style begging smile and a question mark; 'Everything is possible, right?!.'

That is when I am about to give up, got out the wrong side of the bed, am out of coffee, when it's all a mess, chaos and bloody hopeless, raining, muddy, traffic jams from here to the moon, and you feel like killing the first matatu-driver touching your car.

I had a helluva hectic day. Most of the time stuck in traffic jam, had to carry heavy packages and organise posting it as cargo, to buy a plane ticket, write two training session proposals, email high resolution images to Holland, write a job application, pack my blue barrels and find a way to secure them, pack my other luggage, and perfom acrobatic parking on a stamp-sized spot. All the time thinking about the things I never got round to do.

But then someone confirms that you are sorted, that we'll help you, it might cost, but it is possible: I got my laptop back with all sorts of nice stuff! (some flirtateous chatting involved); A bunch of wash-bay workers carried the heavy packages (7000 UGX); MS Uganda's caretaker, Frank, fixed my blue barrels (I promised him a bag of charcoal next week): And I gave up parking and rode boda bodas through the jam (1000 UGX).

Right, everything is possible. If you allow it. That's why I love this place. Hectic, but fantastically elastic.

Comments

[bethanyzylstra]

Hey! You describe this so well, Pernille! I always say, either things in Uganda can happen so fast you're not sure how they're happening or the pace of anything happening seems to take a small lifetime... It is a hard thing to articulate and you did it well. And that does sound like a hectic day. Makes me miss work!

I hope you enjoy Lake Mburo! bethany

[The 27th Comrade]

Yes! Yes, but Tanzania still lacks behind on this ... you still have time to change your mind, you know.
Think about it, Pernille. There are no boda-bodas in Tanzania! :-o

You'll die down there!