Donnerstag, 14. April 2011

shake your sitting facilitys!

yesterday evening we (trisha, caro, christan, some kids, wyda (the best driver, but i don`t know how to writte his name) and i) went to kampala, capital city of uganda, and had dinner at "ndere centre troupe foundation". ndere is an open-air-arena where traditional ugandian dances from each region of uganda are presented by a huge group of musicians and dancers. the mc (master of ceremonies, who was a lady) intruduced every dance and explained its meaning. sadly i can`t remember which dance belongs to which region, but somewhere the people celebrate all the parts of the human body which people normaly don`t really recognize. for example the elbow, you never think about your elbow, but try drinking without it! the other example the mc made (and this was quite more obviously how they celebrate it) was the sitting facilitys. here is a pic: (not the best to show the celebration, all those who want a better impression, come here and see with your own eyes)


in an other region the dance is an expression for how fragile life is and how carefull you should make decisions. i guess i don`t need to say more when you see this: (should be a video, but i couldn`t upload it)





kampala itself was amazing, crowded, busy, full of traffic jam and filled with hard contrasts, rich and poor, beautifull and ugly and so on, and so on. today there where demonstrations in kampala because prices for dailyneeded things rised much. people walked to work instead of using bodabodas (motorcycles) and matatus (taxis). the police shooted in the air and used rubbershots and teargas to fear the people.
back at kids (yesterday night) i was very tired and went straight to bed. in the early morning the strongest thunderstorm so far hit the village. i could feel raindrops in my bed, which is one meter behind the windows (of course not the best windows, but they where closed) and a roofed balcony. the thunerstorm caused a powercut, which lasted until 9 o`clock in the morning.
but then caro and i started to build the kitchen for flat one (remeber? i talked about this kitchen in one of the first posts...) we had some cutting leftovers which i used  build cajon (here some examples of cajons made by stefan dietemann: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/SD-Cajons/126178500761934) so now i got a guitar and a cajon, maybe i can start a band!

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