I had an awesome last few days, and for some reason the internet was kind to me today and let me upload a few pictures! I visited several farms recently that I will write about in the aquaculture section if I have time. One of the farms shows huge potential and I am going to try to spend several days working there so I get some hands on experience.
Two of the farms I visited were in the Eastern region of Uganda, and I got to see the source of the River Nile. The Nile starts in Lake Victoria and then makes the journey through Sudan and Egypt. It is a very beautiful location! There were lots of boats in the river throwing nets to catch fish (which there are very few left of), and it was a very serene setting.
Here’s me at the source of the Nile, as they call it.
Over in the rural areas in the east it looks a lot more like the Africa we see on TV- round huts built of mud with thatched roofs. They were very beautiful and looked well built. The huts in the picture are at a farm I visited east of Bugiri, which is probably 20 km from the Kenya border. The farmer was extremely friendly and even sent his wife down the road to buy us sodas. There is a family living in one of these huts that are from the war torn northern region of Uganda. I wanted to take a picture of the kids but they were afraid of me. I wouldn’t be surprised if I was one of the first mzungus (white people) they’ve ever seen. 
When we walked back onto the road to catch a bus back to Kampala this lady was walking by and she was blown away by me! She was shaking her head and gasping in disbelief about seeing me. I didn’t understand what she was saying but Dennis translated for me that she was very honored and shocked to meet me. I feel like a celebrity a lot of the time because I get so much attention. It’s funny how skin color can be so shoking to people. This lady wanted to shake my hand to greet me and Dennis was smart enough to take a picture of it, it was so awesome! She had no front teeth, and I would say she’s probably never seen a white person or a camera before. Dennis said for sure she was going to tell every person she knows about how she met a mzungu today. 
Yesterday I went out clubbing in Kampala and it was awesome. I wasn’t in the main clubs downtown which are very famous, so I will go to them next weekend.
