I woke up around 6:30 as it got bright outside. I slept surprisingly well during the night.
I got up, washed myself, brushed my teeth, had some bread for breakfast and a Turkish coffee made in a pan on the small grill on the veranda. Then Claudia started the generator as she wanted to work a little on her computer. For some reason it didn’t work the way it should have. We also tried to charge some other stuff using the generator but it wouldn’t really work even though it said that there was enough power coming from the generator. Even though the generated power passes a power filter so that the output should be steady and at a level of either 220 or 110 Volts I could hear that the engin wasn’t running smoothly. We therefore tried to adjust the amount of gasoline going into the engin which helped a little. But only a little… which was a bit annoying… I told her that I’d try out my solar panels later on so that would probably help solve the energy problem a little.
Then some guy appeared who was introduced to me as Norman, the guy who could fix all the electrical gear. Actually Claudia just showed me her notebooks power supply that he repaired… it broke again and didn’t seem to have been repaired properly…
Later Dennis came along, had a few Minipics for breakfast and discussed some things with Claudia. Then he told me about the orphanage that the foundations supports. He told me about some things that are not going well and about what the foundation provided funds for. After that Dennis, Claudia and I did some planning for the week.
Then we started to prepare our lunch. We got some piece of pork and we tried to prepare some kind of Röschti, so we boiled and fried some Irish (potato). Dennis cut himself when he prepared the meat. As he tried to find something to desinfect the wound, he brought some tube to me. But it was just some cream to treat dry skin. So I told him I’d get my first-aid-kit in which I have all the needed stuff (thanks Bernie! :-)) After I had treated him we continued with the preparation of the food. I tried to explain him how to make Röschti. But even though I told him it was time we removed the Irish from the stove so they wouldn’t tear apart, Dennis gave ‘em another 10-15 minutes and later didn’t remove them from the water anyway, so we made fried mashed potatoes in the end. But they tasted nicely as well as the pork that was also fried with lots of garlic, salt and some of the mustard I brought from Switzerland.
After lunch I had another chat with Claudia, providing me some more information about the foundation’s ideas of a proper shelter for the orphans.
Then I needed to recharge my iPhone for which I got my battery pack that I bought with the solar panel. It worked pretty fine. As I also unfolded the solar panel, my battery pack didn’t even lose any capacity after the mobile was fully charged. I then tried to charge Claudias battery pack, which worked also. Perfect!
Then Claudia showed me how to water all the plants in case she’d be away some day. Some of the plants a pretty delicate and don’t like if the water is being poured on them directly.
Then we discussed again some of the plans and where I could go during the time I would travel Uganda. As she told me about it, it got dark. At around 21:30 I told her I said good night as I wanted to wash myself and get to bed.
There’s no light in the bathroom and no running water either, not even a shower is installed. There’s a barrell filled with rainwater and some plastic things to put some water in it. There’s also a bath tub in the room but – as I said – without running water… I stepped into the tub anyway and poured some water on me. I even tried to wash my hair which is difficult with only cold water. I managed it and went back to my room, set up the mosquito net and disappeared underneath it with my notebook to write a few lines for my blog…
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