Welcome to My little corner of Uganda

Welcome...this has been a long awaited visit, sorry I did not invite you to come see my place sooner. This is the street I live on. As you can see, if there is a camera, there are children running to get in the picture. Okay, we are infront of Maama Gertrude's clinic so let's turn around and go inside the compound.


I live in a gated compound, so I feel pretty secure at night. During the day people are coming in and out to visit Maama Gertrude, bring food for the cows and goat, and collect water in their jerry cans for 100/= (USG) each.

My new friend Joyne here is going to begin out tour with the open courtyard. Beyond her, you can see two rainwater harvesting tanks...mine is on the right, well the one I use anyway. The building in between is the kitchen. The goats like to sneak in there every once in a while.

If we go in and look to our left we see Maama Gertrude's house. People are always coming and going, but a few people are ever there like my friend Raymond, who is completing is university work, Noah, who does all sorts of jobs around the place and out in the 5 gardens Maama Gertrude has, and Brenda is the newest of the household help, she helps with basics like cooking and cleaning. Of course I cannot forget Nalongo and her twins. She is the main helper to Maama Gertrude in maintaining the compound...and she does it while watching her two little ones. They are pretty good too, except one likes to cry often.

Okay so sweeping around to the right a little you will see the dish washing/drying area and beyond that is where the cows live (eating, sleeping, and poo-ing). It only took me a couple weeks to migrate to using the washing area, but I have my system down now.

Now here we come back to the kitchen and if you look closely on the very right you can see a lace curtain. That my friends is my door.

Unfortunately I need to cut the tour short here due to time. I invite you in and show you where all the fun stuff is next time.