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| Rejoicing at the completion of the puzzle |
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| Squeezed somewhere |
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| The bats |
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| Tough, even for MENSAs |
We were invited to visit the place of assignment of Debs, in Lira, Uganda. It would not have been possible for me to go were it not for the availability of a small space in the private car that was to take us. Debs is a social researcher, fluent in the local language, and lives in a VSO-rented bungalow by herself. She got everybody to help prepare pancakes for breakfast, and steamed tilapia, and avocado salad for lunch. As usual,
I stayed with my expertise, which was washing the dishes and tidying up the kitchen. We stayed overnight, and since there were 8 of us, some people gladly slept in tents in her
backyard. The following day, we went to a mazungu coffee shop for lunch and shakes while we watched the town below, and the bats above.
Debs has the biggest scrabble dictionary that I have seen. I would have loved to play scrabble but it seems that the rest were more keen on completing the puzzle that arrived recently from the UK. The skies were tough.
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| The puzzle, a port somewhere in the UK |
Volunteers come and go and we only have pictures and memories of our shared experiences that will bind us through time. It is a great coincidence that most VSO vols here in Uganda were born 1951.
I stayed with my expertise, which was washing the dishes and tidying up the kitchen. We stayed overnight, and since there were 8 of us, some people gladly slept in tents in her 
backyard. The following day, we went to a mazungu coffee shop for lunch and shakes while we watched the town below, and the bats above. 
Debs has the biggest scrabble dictionary that I have seen. I would have loved to play scrabble but it seems that the rest were more keen on completing the puzzle that arrived recently from the UK. The skies were tough.
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