(origineel bericht op be-more.nl)
Mzungu Time and Mudugavu Time
Ok, I have decided that I write my last blog in Enlisch. Forgive me my mistakes, I have learned Englisch in Uganda(to speak), but I am still not very good in writing it.
Tomorrow is my last projectday at the Office of FOHO. This week was mend to be arrange the electricity, but I can tell you that the electricity is coming next week. I want to say that I am disappointed a little bit. Otherwise, I decide that I don’t want to be angry for a long time. It is Mudugavu time and I am in Africa, so for me it is allright. I asked Mukasa that, if the electricity is coming soon, he has to tell me this emediatly. He promised me. Nasa, the electricityman, liked me a lot. Unfortunately, I didn’t help to get the electricity sooner. I made a picture in the fourth week, when he was working. Everytime when I saw him, he asked me: Where is our picture? Then I said: You are getting your picture, when you arrange the electricity…So, I can say for now: the picture is still on my camera 
The computerproject is not working yet, because of the electricity, but I decide that I want to give them tables for the computers. The tables are in progress, the tables will be ready tomorrow! For the first time, it is Muzungu Time!
Their was also a nice moment: Kajemba, the boy of the wheel chair, was driving by himself. He is depend from his mother and us, but he can drive by himself a little bit. The mother was more happier than before, that was nice to see.
Today I said goodbye to a nice friend, Ibrahim, who was working with me for two months. He was doing his internship for Social Work and he is also leaving FOHO this week. We had a nice time together, we constructed many stoves and trained football with the street children. I am glade that we have Facebook to keep contact!
Today we had a workshop at the office: Go Girls Workshop. It was about HIV/AIDS and we invited 50 girls. We organised the program for the day, but the local volunteers talked the whole day, because some girls can’t speak Englisch very well. Their was also a play about sexual abuse and domestic violence. For the girls a interesting day. After the workshop, we played volleyball together. A nice slogan Mukasa always saying: No taste before test…
I want to share something with you: We found a ticket of the Hospital with the description: Have a nice day, please come again! Now, I can understand that you want to say: Have a nice day….but: please come again?! No, I can’t understand that part of the sentence…
I had a very nice time in Uganda and I definitely want to go back soon. The work FOHO is doing means a lot for the community and volunteers can really make a difference here. Of course, it doesn’t mean that every problem in Africa is solved, but I have seen that we can do a lot here, if you take initiative and be assertive. Be kind, be friendly and have respect for the culture. That’s the only thing you can do to make it a nice time for yourself and for the project. I have learned to have patience and to live with the less things there are. I have a lot respect for the people who are surviving in the villages, where the HIV positive living children lives. FOHO is taking care of them and to keep up the good work, they need our help and support to arrange the work.
FOHO and all local volunteers, thank you for this great experience and I hope to see you soon!
Weebale Nnyo,
Love, Marijke