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Not sure whether anyone reads anymore, because honestly I don’t write anymore.

I’m well into the groove of things and consider Nansana home. So much so, that I really need a holiday now. I can’t believe I’ve been working for 5 months non stop. Granted, there were a few weekend trips around the country during that time, but I really feel like I need to get out of Uganda!!!

1. Next week, my bougie aunt is coming from Japan and we’re going on Safari. I’m very much looking forward to this. I’m a bit anxious because I am responsible for organising everything and making sure she has a good time. But some things will be out of my hand so... We’re going to Queen Elizabeth National Park, and Bwindi Forest, doing Gorilla trekking and stuff.

2. Previous weekend trips so far have included Fort Portal, Bunyoni, and Sipi Falls. And many many day trips to a resort closer to Entebbe/Lake Victoria where I just pig out by the pool side. This has probably saved my mental health numerous times. I haven’t properly done Jinja yet, but I am sure there will be time for that.

3. I personally and professionally do not get along well with the American counterpart of mine. She doesn’t ever push herself, always looks out for her own self-interest, and wants to do the bare minimum. To make matters worse, I have to sit next to her at work too. I really need this holiday, if anything, to just get away from her. Ranting about her makes up 90% of my journal.

4. Holiday/Work updates: I’m going on Safari next week, and in the first week of October, I will be going to South Africa with my friend from the Philippines for a week. Joburg and Cape Town. Any recommendations, lmk! End of October, I have a business trip to Japan. This will be followed by another week holiday in Okinawa and Taiwan. Hehe. Then I will hopefully be back in Japan for Dec/Jan.

5. I got into a near death accident on a boda with my H. He slammed his leg between the boda and the car pretty badly and has some muscle wastage. I got away with a few bruises because I was able to react quicker.

6. The pan is still great and keeping me together. I have not really cooked much though.

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Because I'm getting settled here, I find it difficult to write about things that myself in 10 years or others now might be interested in reading about.

A good friend kindly gave me these prompts:

Money: I actually got my first salary here in dollars (first time having so many dollars really) and it's kinda neat. I'm very happy to get money hehe. The situation still hasn't been cleared though - what I have decided is that I won't try to route my salary to my UK account because it doesn't even work (thanks hsbc) and instead will open a bank account here. Now I have to do research on what bank here takes US Dollars and won't charge a shit ton, or at all. But I hate all things finance, so I am procrastinating that. Luckily for me though, there are three other new staff members in the same boat, so I feel like we will figure this out together.

Sim card: Sim card sale is still suspended by the government, though at I have heard so many different reasons as to why. One person said because people were getting a lot of burner phones to do their crimes, namely kidnapping. Another person said general terrorism (though I'm not sure what they're referring to). Another person said it's a government method of suppressing grassroots movements from gaining any traction in politics. Still, there's hope on the horizon that there will be sim card sales soon. In the mean time, I am super lucky because I got an Airtel sim, which turns out to be one of the cheapest providers for data right now. Other staff have all gotten Africelll, which is crazy expensive and super slow apparently.

Pan: The pan WAS non-stick! Though I feel slightly cheated, because yesterday the new staff and myself took the office car for a big grocery shop to a Chinese supermarket (and indeed, there was a Chinese family there) and at that shop, there was a frying pan for 15k. So I may have lost 10k, but tbh, my pan looks better, or at least I'll tell myself that. The other issue is just how difficult it is to cook here because we have little gas cookers where you need a small gas canister thing, but they're expensive and seems unsustainable in the long term, so I don't want to cook too much. But does that mean I can't eat my own food?! Sad times. I'm currently in the process of negotiating for a hot plate too, because the new members got that.

This is important because I have started getting sick of Ugandan food. It's been a month and I am bored of it - which I think is a fair rate considering there's only 5 main things to eat here.

P: P moved out yesterday to move to the house on the hill. While her and other staff members who live there got brand new furniture including a new fridge and stuff, which I am super jealous of, they live on the hill. It will be good exercise for them to go up and down the hill everyday and I am slightly jealous of that, but I am also very happy to just be living around the corner from work. I do miss P though - her cooking was really good and she was good at killing cockroaches. I currently have a dead cockroach in my room that I do not have the courage to touch to throw away. I will get there.

Work is changing and getting busier. Finally all the new staff have arrived, so we're almost complete (there are some old staff that are still away on business trips). The dynamics are changing, and a lot of it is frustrating, but I am not letting it get to me (yet).

On another note: I'm going to Jinja with the new staff girls this weekend! We're getting picked up at 7.30am and staying at a resort called the Haven. It's going to be a mini break before the real work kicks in - when the students arrive. It should be good - I wanna tan by the pool, take a hot shower with good pressure, eat proper food, enjoy wifi... such are the pleasures in life!

Attached are random other pictures from the last few weeks.

Chinese supermarket:

P and me

Kids at the rainbow house

Our office cat getting raped by some crazy male catasshole

The gym I might be hitting up

P and C bitching about work

A queer house party here

Views from the house party

More views

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GUYS. THIS SUPERMARKET OPENED NEAR US. I GOT A PAN FOR 25k. IM SO HAPPY. I REALLY HOPE ITS NON STICK!!!

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Three weeks in Uganda!

Work has started picking up which is actually exciting. We have interns and students arriving in less than three weeks, so there’s a lot that needs to be organized: timetables, airport pick ups, menu, accommodation, etc.

Today we had a two-hour meeting about how we can improve the school menu to make it healthier and also alright, because the students complained a lot about the food last year apparently (understandable. Food is always needs to be good). It’s difficult because the budget is 4USD per student per day, and the kitchen isn’t well equipped and the cooks can only cook Ugandan food and also struggle to cook for around 50 people. There also seems to be an issue with laziness – the cooks slack, and only start cooking last minute, ending up serving half cooked rice… Apparently there was also drama that the teachers would also be the first one to queue for the food, and ended up taking a lot of the good stuff (fruit salad), leaving little to the students. Hilarious.

There’s this new guy that’s here temporarily who really bothers me. Because life kind of worked out for him and I don’t think he’s ever really struggled – and he’s white male who grew up in Asia. He actually tried to explain Japanese culture to me, which is always exciting. Anyway, he’s a year older than me and is “Assistant Director”, and he didn’t know that California is a blue state. Hmmmmmmmmmm.

I’m also tempted to cut off a good chunk of my hair because it’s just a bitch to wash every night when the shower pressure is so shit. Maybe cut off like 15-20cm? The ends seem kinda damaged anyway. Maybe I’ll start with 10-15, and see how it goes from there. Co is good at cutting hair so that’s nice that I can get that done for free.

The accommodation thing is also on my mind a lot. I think P and I are getting along better now – she’s settled in, and is cooking her own kind of food so that’s good. But I still want to move out. And it’s this whole scenario – there’s a few compounds where the staff live in, and some of them are close to work, others are quite far, and it can determine what kind of social life you will have. Right now, I live right next to work but with no direct close social life. I’m planning to move in with Co, where I’ll be slightly further from work (and can walk to work!) and have a good chance of a social life. Alternatively, I can move to The Hill, which is on top of a hill, and the social life will be extremely limited. AHHH.

I still have not figured out a banking solution here. Not sure what to do. Will brainstorm with another British guy on what Ugandan bank to use to set up an account with. Grrr.

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April in Uganda

The last two days were so cold, I had to bring a cardigan to work. I also brought my teapot because I wanted to sip on my sencha, which I shared with C... though she wasn’t all that into bitter kind of tea. I’ll convert her.

Bitchy rant time:

P has moved in and she’s finding the area here quite difficult. Apparently Zimbabwe is a lot more developed than Uganda and it’s quite a big culture shock for her here (C hypothesizes that she’s from a rich family). While P is generally a nice person and someone who is really easy to work with, it’s quite another thing to live with a colleague like that and almost be responsible for their happiness.  She’s upset that there’s no wifi at the house (me too, but im not gonna complain until forever about it), she doesn’t like the local food, complains about how the streets have no names, etc. 

Transitions are hard and I feel a lot of her struggles, but she’s really depressing me a little bit as well. I also can’t help but feel responsible for her (not sure why). She’s 32 and should be able to deal with these challenges just as much as me. I feel like I’m always a bit tense at home now, because I’m scared of the next thing she’s going to complain about and having to make her feel better about it or something.

She’s also tied to me for wifi - her iphones are locked and she can’t use a local sim so she needs me to tether my wifi while I’m home. She has contributed money for my data plan, but I think I will return her the money because I cannot imagine having to spend every evening sitting next to her and tethering. 

Racist rant time:

All the Japanese people get to live by themselves but international staff have to share houses.

It’s problematic on all levels, but apparently this kind of racism is even worse at the headquarters (Japanese staff get their further education sponsored, international don’t). Another point is that they clearly don’t see me as Japanese lol. 

Hopefully when H gets back from his month-long business trip he can help sort things out. Not that I want to depend on men, but you know. I hate this kind of confrontation!!!

BUT ALSO. Next year, they’re going to consider me as a Japanese staff (lol???) and I will be their Japanese liaison for the various interviews they will do across Sub-Saharan Africa. LOL. WHAT A JOKE. THEY TRUST ME TO BE THEIR JAPANESE REPRESENTATIVE WITH MY SHITTY LANGUAGE SKILLS

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Today in Kampala/Nansana 1. Street light for pedestrian that reminded me of London. Although it doesn’t work. 2. Was boda-ing and got stuck in the rain. A first. 3. Colleague M took P and I out for dinner. We had pork and cassava. I love the meat here, esp because it’s so fatty 😂😭 4. MY FIRST FIREFLIES EVER!!!!! 5. Kampala ambulance: in case of an emergency, call either of the two numbers. Hopefully you’re still alive then 😂

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Dear all,

It has almost been another week in Uganda.

I think some of the novelty is coming down, but I still have many moments of disassociation where I can’t really believe that I am in Uganda. They happen mostly at night, when my friend Co and I are riding bodas back from Kampala to Nansana. Life just feels incredibly light, and I forget that I was once part of the London grind.

Co is a new update to this week. She came back from her travels at the beginning of this week, so I was able to meet her. She’s a qwoc, Princeton in Africa fellow, and just a really sweet fun girl. We sit next to each other at work, and I can vibe with her well. This is really key because H has left for a month now, and she will be my social life (especially until more staff start arriving).

So with Co, I was able to explore Kampala a lot better. She introduced me to many of her American friends that are doing programmes here, and I went to their movie night where we watched Shape of Water (lol) and had pizza. I also met some of her british friends – two Somalian British girls, who are genuinely so fun. I’m very lucky to be able to get along so well with her.

Yesterday, my flatmate P moved in. She’s from Zimbabwe, but she was working at the organization in Tokyo prior to coming here. It’s interesting for myself to be able to reflect on how far I have come in 1.5 weeks when I see her get settled to the area. She has bank/money issues like me, and also sim card issues.

As nice as she is, I already miss living by myself and will move out when I can. I feel like there are plenty challenges here already, and flatmate ones are ones that I can avoid hopefully so.

Asuka levels up Uganda pt1:  last week, I was so scared on the boda and thought I would never ride it again. This week, I boda everywhere with Co. Though I’m not comfortable sitting on the back yet if it’s a 3-person boda, And yes, I shall get a helmet.

Asuka levels up Uganda pt2: getting used to the shit shower here. I never thought that day would come, but it’s possible. I only hope I can get used to the shit kitchen here too.

Asuka levels up Uganda pt3: taking the matatsu by myself to a supermarket nearby lol. Idk why I was so scared.

Speaking of which, I wish I had brought my wok or a good frying pan. P and I made scrambled eggs for breakfast, and washing the eggs off that shitty ass frying pan was such torture, I didn't know people still used non-non-stick frying pans. I guess that’s why there’s a lot of oil in the food?

I also went clubbing last night! For the first time in ages, and for the first time in Kampala. It was at the Design Hub in the industrial area, and the venue was actually really cool, but the DJs… were underwhelming. There were some really hot girls dancing on tables in underwear (?) and I saw some A+ twerking.

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Welcome to my house.

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Hello all!!!

It is almost coming to the end of my first week in Nansana, Kampala, Uganda. It still feels so surreal to even just know that I am in Africa.

My flight went super smoothly from London to Entebbe. The connection at Brussels was slightly tight (who knew that Brussels airport had a special terminal just for African flights? While running around and looking for it, the airport staff were pointing everyone towards a bus, saying “take the shuttle to Africa!!!” Yes, sir, I will.), but once I was boarded, I happily found that I had the entire row to myself. Such luxury. In the flight, I watched some romanticized movies about Africa – a short Nollywood romcom called Entangled and then a Western movie called A United Kingdom, which was about Botswana’s first elected president who was married to a white English woman. That one I would recommend.

Immigration took some time. Once I got to the conveyer belt for my luggage, some airport staff had already started removing it and putting it to the side. I found out later that this is somewhat common and is also how luggage gets lost. Thankfully I was able to get all of mine, and got picked up by the Ashinaga driver. It took 1.5 hours-ish through a dark Kampala to get home.

I can go on about the details of what I’ve been up to, but rather I will use some questions set by K verbatim to guide the rest of this post.

You have no wifi???

There is wifi at the office which is 1 minute away. But it can also be quite slow and limited in bandwidth (?) so it’s not great.

Uganda has also recently stopped allowing cell/data providers to sell sim card for phones, which made the first few days a bit difficult. Luckily I got to hang out with people a lot including after work, but returning to a home without wifi was tough but also refreshing.

I now have a sim card with data (lent by the IT dude at work) until we can find another solution. But yeah, can’t be streaming videos endlessly. It’s about 30,000UGX for 5GB data/month. I used to use 2GB/month in London, so let’s see how far this will get me?

Do you have your own shower?

Yes. I have my own house, in fact (for now). The shower pressure horrified me the first time. I have now somewhat gotten used to it/found a strategy. There is hot water, so that’s good.

How’s the house?

When I met with my manager in London, he described it as a bungalow. I didn’t really know what to expect by that, but it truly is a bungalow. There’s a main living room, a kitchen, a bathroom, and two bedrooms. I’m in the big bedroom, and another girl from Zimbabwe called Polite might be joining to live in the smaller room.

Originally I wanted to live with someone just because I don’t know how to do anything here, but now that I’ve been alone for a week, I’m so used to it already. Apparently Polite is in her 30s as well, and just from a different background, and while I don’t have doubts that we won’t get along, I can imagine that I won’t be able to just be at home comfortably as much.

How are the people?

The people at work are so nice. So far it’s mostly Japanese staff, a few Ugandans, and my mentor/manager H. They are incredibly helpful – perhaps too helpful. I say that because I don’t feel like I’m learning anything new for myself because I can depend on them so much!

More internationals/westerners are going to come later, and I look forward to that. There’s another girl, M, who I have been in touch with over e-mails. She seems like a hyper-peppy American girl, which kind of gives me anxiety.

I spent yesterday with the Japanese people in Kampala and was able to hear some of the gossip/their experience/get to know them personally a bit more. They’re so nice and Japanese, but also I think I was slightly exhausted by the end of it. They are quite strict (which I like) but also slightly harsh? They were judging a Somalian refugee/migrant/student at the organization for not knowing that she should be at the airport 2 hours before an international flight. I find that kind of harsh, but perhaps my patience might also run short in the future.

Any hot expat men?

Not sure whether they’re hot, or I’m just bored really.

How’s the work?

Hasn’t really kicked in yet, can’t report. It sounds like a lot of work and emotional labour though. I think I will enjoy it. First time getting paid for emotional labour… lol.

What's the weather like?

The weather is super nice, edging on slightly too hot. As long as you stay in the shade, it’s totally comfortable. Spending longer periods of time in the sun really gets exhausting. The rain is also unpredictable which makes planning the day difficult (H and I were planning to go to a music festival in Kampala yesterday night, but it started raining so we gave up. On my second day of “work”, it started thundering at 8.55am, and it was over by 9.10am, so I was technically 10min late to work [which is fine anywhere else, but in Japanese settings it made me feel very bad]).

What’s the city like? (Like… is there stuff?)

The city is a slight crowded chaos. I say slight because I feel like certain areas of New Delhi and Lahore were more overwhelming still. There are no rules in traffic, except for you should drive on the left hand sideish. There’s lots of markets, where people might grab you to try to sell you something. I saw some Indians (lol) and there are two malls where the muzungu (foreigners) hang out.

What’s the food like? Do you have to cook?

Food has been okay so far, not much of a worry for me yet. For lunch, we go to a local “restaurant” where you can order a meat + 2 carbs for around 3000-4000UGX. Carbs are usually a choice of rice, matooke (plantains), posho (maize), sweet potato, pumpkin, or something else. The “meat” is fish, beef, or chicken, or beans. It’s doable to be vegetarian here as well.

I’m scared of weight gain just because it’s so carb heavy and according to H, girls gain weight when they come to Uganda lol. Not that there’s anything wrong with that in particular obviously, but I’d like to avoid it if I can.

I wonder when I will really start craving Asian/Japanese food.

PLEASE ALSO COMMENT ON MY POSTS GUISE BECAUSE OTHERWISE I FEEL LIKE I AM WRITING TO THE VOID… WHICH IS OK BUT ALSO I MISS U GUYS

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packing for uganda ft. eddy kenzo

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Prep for Uganda Pt 2

MOVING SHIT.

Basically, I have decided to ship three boxes to Berlin and take three suitcases + carry on with me to Uganda. 

I’ve decided to use sendmybag.com for the boxes to Berlin because it seems fairly priced compared to other services, their interface is nice (not gonna lie, i’m sold by looks), and someone has recommended it to me. Luckily enough, we have a few unused, unfolded cardboard boxes in our storage in the flat, which I shall happily just use. I don’t think that I have to use three boxes - after all, I want to give away a lot of stuff, throw away a lot of stuff, and I am taking three suitcases worth to Uganda. But I prefer to be rather safe than sorry, and my gut is telling me I will still be able to fill three boxes easily anyway. For three boxes and SMS tracking, it came to about £91.50. 

It’s a bit of a bitch because I’m sending the boxes to a family friend in Berlin first, as no one is home in Berlin when they will be delivered. Däddykins will be in Tokyo with Mommykins, so it’s an empty house. But Däddykins will be picking up the stuff from the family friend’s place when he’s back.

Brussel airlines allows for two check in luggages and I’ve added a third one, which cost a whopping £130. There may have been cheaper routes to getting my shit to Uganda, but will it be safe? How long will it take? Is it convenient? are just some of the factors that went in my head as I convinced myself that paying ��130 is the best option.......

So the first two suitcases are normal suitcases, the third one I bought yesterday at Primark (because I am a classy lady). And it’s not really a suitcase, because I thought this might also be more useful for traveling within Africa as well and it gives me an alternative to my suitcases. While this thinking is not sustainable, I’m treating it as disposable if it breaks...

I have also bought a new hiking/trekking backpack on a website recommended by L’s beau:

That was £30. It looks pretty neat and sturdy, and it might be a bit small, but if it was any bigger it wouldn’t work as carry on, and my untrained back muscles would probably collapse anyway. I’m excited for it to arrive.

When I got in touch with my manager about what I should bring to Uganda, he said to bring stuff that will make you feel homey. And because I usually do this anyway every once in a while, I’ve decided that I’m going to take some printed photos of my friends and some good times as my chosen homey brick-a-brack. 

Of course I was silly enough not to check the print size vs. the size of the pockets in my daiso-bought photo album, so will have to go buy another photo album. But check out that lovely photo of my friend T.

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Booked my flights!

Mar 20th, arriving at like 11pm in Entebbe with a layover in Brussels and a stop in Kigali. 

I hope nothing gets delayed. I’m going with 3 suitcases and a backpack. lol. 

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Last days in London❄️☃️🌨

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Prep for Uganda Pt 1

For this work opportunity, there’s logistical stuff that needs preparation. These are 

Visa

Vaccinations

Moving my shit

1. The Visa

Firstly, this means getting a regular tourist visa from which a work visa can be applied for from within Kampala (appaz). For entry to Uganda, you need to get a yellow fever vaccination which costs around £70 and is just one intra-dermal short (as my nurse explained). Besides that, just a passport, passport photo, and 50USD is needed for that. I’ll hear back from the High Comission in London soon to pick up my visa. 

To apply for a work visa, which my organisation will help me with, I need a police clearance certificate. This is new to me, and turns out, relatively expensive? One regular certificate is £45 and can take up to 10 working days to process. So I did that, plus I got a second copy of the certificate for £6 extra just in case I might need another one for this job or another thing in the near future. 

The police clearance thing was interesting, because I needed to include two proofs of address and an endorser. The former was relatively difficult because I just moved a few months ago, so all my uni documents had the old address, so I resorted to using my giffgaff bill and a bank statement. I hope it’ll be okay! For the latter, my dearest friend L said she would help me out with that. Only people with certain jobs (ie engineers, doctors, accountants, managers, and a many more) can serve as endorsers and at this point in my life, not many of my close friends have reaches such fancy positions, with L being an exception because she is supahhh smart.

2. Vaccinations

This part is really fun and interesting! Because I am actually a fan of needles, and it’s kind of an insight into global health/infectious diseases. 

So yesterday, Feb 26, I went to the London Vaccination Clinic to get my yellow fever vaccination and to get a general consultation on what else I need to go to Uganda. I had my little yellow WHO vaccination book and a separate sheet of paper that my parents had given me (they kept track of all the vaccinations my siblings and I received while moving around in our childhood). 

First of all, the nurse was mega cool. She had short hair and was super talkative. I regret being jetlagged and tired, I wish I had asked her more questions about vaccinations and the work she does. She signed my yellow fever vaccination pass (it’s another little yellow booklet, specifically for yellow fever), so I looked her up on Linkedin when I got home. It just made me realise I really should have studied medicine. 

She also started my rabies treatment (my previous rounds were expired (?)), and we set up another appointment for Hep B which I need another booster shot of. Apparently there is a global shortage of the Hep B vaccine which is really just wow? I didn’t know that could happen? Umm, hello, Bill Gates? Can I pls have my vaccine? (It might have been another vaccine, I was half asleep lol)

Because the full round of rabies takes 3 weeks, I can only leave for Uganda on the 20th. That has delayed me by a week which is kind of sad, but also relieving because that means I don’t have to stress about packing up my life in just 2 weeks.

3. Moving my shit

I talked to my parents about this one because it’s a bit of a logistical nightmare and also triggers a bit of the ever so reoccurring identity crisis. As mis padres are moving this summer (nothing is certain yet, though the DPRK looks very likely) I will have no home to actually return to or leave my shit at and this gives me deep anxiety on multiple levels. Because what if Uganda is actually shit and I just want to “go home”?  Where is that? And most immediately, what do I do with my stuff!!!

ANYWAY, I have decided to ship three boxes back to Berlin where my parents will put those in storage before they move and move to Uganda with three suitcases. I’m not sure whether my work will reimburse the third suitcase - it’s USD200 which is horrifying - but I think I’ll have to bite the bullet and just do that regardless. From the research I’ve done, the shipping of three boxes to Berlin should be around £100 which is not too bad? 

Moving es muy caro man. 

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Welcome!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!

Hello you!

You’re a close friend of mine. You were given the magic password by yours truly to view this blog. I hope you’ll find the information I write here interesting, even if my writing style isn’t that great. Having read some other friends’ blogs whose entries read like prose, I feel like the standard is quite high among my circle of friends. But writing never has been my forte (idk how I survived two social science degrees), so pls forgive.

I’m sharing this blog with an audience of close, many of whom don’t know each other, and may actually be quite different, and might know different sides of me. But I hope I can still cater to all of you one way or another! 

Thanks for coming so far to just check out this page anyway.

A big goal of mine is to just keep this up. It should be easy, as I am desperately trying to cut down social media on other platforms. I’ve decided to do this because I felt like my life was becoming performative. As toxic as social media can be at times, a downside of quitting it means that I have stopped taking pictures and recording moments, which is really important for a nostalgic person like me! So I hope that this blog will also serve some motivation for that. Editing pics on vscocam is kinda fun after all, but apparently I don’t do it unless I have an audience (hello!!!!!111!).

It should also be easy because I won’t actually have friends in Kampala lol so I need to talk to someone, even if it’s just the blog.

But basically, I think I like to keep this blog for my move to Kampala, Uganda, Africa. That will be my highlight for 2018, and I’m sure there will be lots of things here and there that I will want to take not of, reflect on, share with you, and ultimately sob over when I get nostalgic. It’s really a selfish gesture.

That being said, I may have other topics besides the move. 

Other housekeeping: 

If you’ve been given the password to the blog, it means I trust you a fair amount, which also means please do not share it with other people! If there are other friends that I totally forgot to share it with (lol) lmk and I will message them myself. I’m very bad at memorising passwords, and would hate to have to change it lololol.

I’m quite happy with the theme I chose for now. I love the archive feature and being able to look back at certain months or post types. Not sure I need anything else in terms of theme/blog layout, but feedback is welcome :)

I don’t think I will mention friend’s names explicitly ever just because it’s the Internet, but instead will be using their first letter. If it’s ever relevant, I hope you can understand. 

I’m trying to figure out how long I should aim for a post to be. As with my handwritten diary entries, I like to have a specific goal (ie a page in my notebook) as a guide. In the case of blog posts, I suppose that will be in a certain word count - but for now, will see.

Soz if I just go on emotional word vomit, can promise that that is v v v likely to happen.

Meow, I think that’s it for now.

I hope I see many dogs in Kampala!!!