one month!

even if it doesn`t fell like, it is the truth: i`m in uganda since 5 weeks. the time went by like a running train. now, there is some kind of a daily routine (but still everyday something special happens). but the workdays (as it is normal for workdays, i guess) look same to each other. getting up around 7.30am, start working at 8.15am, teatime at 9.40am, lunch at 2.00pm, calling it a day at 4.45pm (still all times are plus-minus some minutes). even food (at least lunch) looks more or less the same everyday, posho (maizporridge) with beans, or peanuts, or chicken, or porc, but at least posho is on every plate. what makes the big difference (at least to switzerland) is that when i get up, the sun kisses my face, when i go to work, people greet each other friendly (hello, how are you? i`m fine, how are you? fine! how was your night? great, how was yours? it was ok! how`s live? and on and on and on), when i go for tea, nobody complains if i sit 5 minutes longer (don`t do that in switzerland), around lunchtime it is mostly so hot that i melt down just by seating around, and in the evening it is warm enough to stay outside for a beer or two (thinking about that, i miss the "biergarten" in wohlen.... enjoy my friends!).
i think it was in my first post when i said that we will build a kitchen for my flat. yesterday evening we prepared dinner for the first time in my kitchen. but still there is no sink and some shelfs are not in the place they belong to. time just is a bit slower here. the answer to the question: how is work? mostly is something like: it is ok! we are moving, slow, but for shure! and that is just how it is, what can`t be done today will be done tomorrow (i really enjoy that, even if it isn`t very swiss).

but, as nice as it is to be here, it is hard to believe that there is some cracy stuff going on just a 45minutes cardrive from the village. last thursday five people were shot during the w2w-protests as the police startet to use live ammunition. the fact that the ICC started to monitoring the situation didn`t quite down the violence at all. for more information and pictures check this internetsite: http://echwaluphotography.wordpress.com/ and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13246913