Moments

Awesome Moment #3:
Talking to the chairperson of the Women With Disabilities Group, she says " We want our women to be married by choice, and not by chance".
Awesome!!

Inappropriate Humor Moment No. 456,345:
" We want our members who have leprosy to be treated decently. They should not be shunned. They should be included in society. This exclusion should stop..." says Women with Disabilities Chairperson.

"People with leprosy should not be treated like, well, like...lepers" summarizes Mendi in her shorthand notebook trying to stifle a highly inappropriate giggle.

Double Ewww Tee Eff Moment No. 67,875:
So one of my WTF moments has to be when I was attacked by a bat when minding my own business, riding on a boda-boda (eh, you can quit laughing Steve)

See this harmless looking tree


It's actually full of bats that roam all willynilly during the day.
Exhibit A:


Exhibit B:


So I'm on a boda-boda (not actual Mendi. This is me doing some chase car activity)



And I'm enjoying the wind in my hair braids (OK!!!Horse genocide happened for me to rock this look. Deal with it. Barbaro and Sea Biscuit gone y'all!!!)

Anyhoo... I'm on the boda-boda when suddenly, this bird starts hanging by the beak on to the driver’s shirt. I start whimpering in apprehension as I have a serious bird-phobia. And I’m shrieking in a medium carrying voice (fire truck loud, though of course not as loud as Independent-Church-next-to-my-Kampala-house-I-can’t-believe-you-have-a-frigging-amplifier-in-a-10foot-room-church-shut-up-it’s-Sunday-somebody-kill-me-now very loud type of noise).

And in between elegantly shrieking, I’m looking at this bird thinking “eh… lakini this bird is seriously ugly” when I suddenly notice…

It’s a BAT!!!!!!!!!!

And all hell broke loose. So kwanza, me I’m trying to jump off the boda-boda (after all, my jobo health insurance checked in so I’m a’ight!), but my rucksack is jammed between me and the back of the boda-boda seat, so I’m stuck. And since I’m now shrieking, I guess the driver was not taking chances and he was now pedal to the metal, accelerating and for sure thinking “If it’s Kony and ‘dem, me and my boda and this miscellaneous chick I'm carying? We’re out”. And these women by the road side are looking at me like “What? What?”.

Me? I just want out!!!!! Finally, the driver gets the nerve to ask what is it and I’m like "Gnnnhhkjksjdkj sfsfhskf “ and he sees the bat and with utter contempt, slows down and tells me “Ah… it’s a [insert Acholi word for bat here]. They eat fruits”.

Well, excuse me! Sorry for being afraid of the vegetarian Gulu bats!

WTF Moments # 67,875 a) ; b) and c):

a) Grab a cafe:

...You'll be here a long, long time.Me trying to install Office *sigh*

Then, ati the "12 hours"? Now, that's just malice.


b) Doing the first anti virus cleanup in a long, long time. We finally found 1,500 threats.


c) Um.... this hairstyle?

... so won't score you that job. This was a Naijan poster we saw in a Gulu barber shop that we were getting photocopies in (obviously). These here hair cuts are those that had won the "Barbing Award" in Benin City.