Thursday, September 15, 2005

Grocery shopping day! What an experience that was. First of all my roommate (Eric) and I took a taxi into the city centre. The taxi system here is pretty much like the North American bus system, except they use toyota minivans instead of busses. We went shopping downtown at a place called Shoprite. I bought some apples, potatoes, beans, carrots, juice, laundry detergent, salami, sausage, some type of beef strips that said minutes steak on them (hopefully they are at least edible) and tuna all for 30,000 Ugandan Shillings. That is about $16 US. Then on the way back, we had to go to the "taxi yard" where there is thousands of these taxis. Finding one that actually goes back to Makindye (where I'm living) was a chore in itself. Apparently these taxis are organized but I'm pretty sure organized confusion doesn't even begin to describe it. I did get home though, and now I'm going to cook up some supper. This whole living on my own could get interesting yet.

1 Comments:

Blogger Jenny Jansen said...

Hi Mike;

Just wanted to say hi, how are you? It's fun reading your messages. Hope everything is ok.

Best wishes and God bless.

Love the Jansens

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