Thanks for you email Sugarberries! Was great to hear from you, and to hear all your news, hard and good. I'll reply properly during the week- this is just to make sure you are not waiting endlessly (again) and also to exercise the blog a bit!:-) lots of love, x

Sugarberries, thank you for your email. So sorry to take forever to reply; work is manic and weekends fly by with so many various activities...my last post was via a comment on one of the postings (not very clever) so i guess you haven't read that yet. Still haven't gotten a moment to email Lamon and Mukyala Lamon to explain the blogging biz (maybe you should do the honours!) Texts to you still refuse to go through; although i not been clever enough to try your warid no..still have it?
Otherwise i'm ok- been here just over two months already, would you believe-time flies!

Yes i heard of that lad Timothy's death- heard from my aunt who is your mum's friend actually, he was my relative apparently. I didn't know him though- but my aunt says he was so so so nice, like his parents (and his dad died about 5 years ago). First Mugabe, then now this boy; life is fragile.

Almost time for me to go home, feel very tired today, and can't wait to go home and sleep! Spent entire weekend unbraiding,and the hair seems to have trebled in thickness-arms and neck are sore still! But its good to have the braids out- i really want to get dreadlocks, but i'm still skeptical about whether they'll come out the way i want them to look. We'll see; might come home with a maroon-tinted mohawk:-)

Kale, have a good rest of the week, and hopefully a text to Warid comes through to you today.

:-) so excited to read your comment:-):-) so you are alive and well, didn't get a reply for an email i sent you yonks ago and was worried you were at home sick or something. Yes facebook must be easier than this-i'm learning on the job:-) I kinda lost steam after the first few days...but atleast you've gotten it so that gives me hope:-) Been reading through many other people's blogs,people can really put themselves out there; i guess its like the way its easier to spill things to a stranger than it is to tell a friend or relative. But i would never be able to do that:-) I've not replied Ramon and Mukyala Ramon about how to get here. Which reminds me, i met a Ugandan girl here who turns out to be Nyombi's sister!! She's v nice. Met up with her over the weekend and gave her a tour of town and we got some things for her settling-in (check me out- i''m now as a good as a resident:-))how are you?? (need to figure out a way to get only a few specific people to read this blog)

Sugarberries!! I have just now realised that you are following the blog!:-) But i'm also worried about you because I haven't heard from you in a while, and texts don't get through. Scared you are sick in hospital or something like that:-( I think i'll give you a ring today. So if you are there, somewhere, please post a comment, x x

the beginning...

don't quite know what to say...is this the start of something or not? But i am excited nonetheless:-) I have you, Sugarberries and Smiley in mind- you are the ones who tried to convince me to go onto facebook so we can stay in touch...so this is Blueberry O'hara signing in! (Maybe i should change the name to that...) so..now i'm off to email you both and tell you about this blog; this feels like going on an adventure:-D