Yesterday we ran all over the place. Kampala is much warmer than Ssembabule or Mubende, so we basically melted in the heat all day. I’m incredibly grateful that it isn’t this hot in the central region. We’ve already eaten Indian food here twice this weekend, and both times it has been fantastic. Uganda isn’t exactly known for its culinary greatness or diversity, but they do manage to make some amazing Indian food, and it tastes AMAZING after weeks and weeks of traditional Ugandan fare. Yesterday we did some souvenir shopping, and at night we went to a movie (Eat, Pray, Love - although I had already seen it in the US) and I finally ate popcorn, which I had been craving for a long time. The movie theater is inside Garden City, which is the shopping mall in Kampala, and it’s really nice because the mall is always busy and well-lit even late at night on the weekends, so I always feel like it’s a good/safe place to go and hang out, even if you’re by yourself.
Today we went to Aristoc, the biggest bookstore in Kampala. Turns out that my habit of buying way too many books (and then proceeding to bask in a book-buying high) in the US has followed me here, because I bought 7 books today. However, it’s good to stock up on books while we’re in town, and I know that I’ll eventually get to all of them (I have many more months and a lot of down time). Right now I’m hanging out at 1000 Cups, a really cool coffee shop that has lots of comfy chairs, a TV that plays CNN, a large souvenir shop, and selection of international newspapers and magazines. We have a little more shopping to do this afternoon and tomorrow, and then tomorrow we’ll head back to Ssembabule in the early afternoon.
This is me outside our hotel in Mubende, with attractive wet hair.
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