letzte jahr weihnacht

the worst christmas song ever... honestly... but in a fun interpretation

WISH YOU ALL SOME VERY NICE CHRISTMAS DAYS WITH YOUR FAMILY; FRIENDS; KIDS; BELOVED; *

i like to move it move it- ....

just 1 day before my well-anticipated and in my humble opinion well-deserved christmas holiday in icecold germany, i moved out of my house in Luzira (the far away part of kamplala were the prison is). finally. the house was tooo big, and to far away (30-45 min one-way of horrible traffic fighting and angryness to get to the office...)
Now i moved into a house close by the office (5 min walk) which i share for the upcoming month with my colleague Michael. It has a great big balcony and comes with a nice cat called 'Pantoffel'. (that means 'houseshoe' in german). uh. i am starting to become a pet zoo...... unbelievable....
the sad thing is that my current room mate Katja is moving then to another friend for the next 4 weeks. sadly. cause we had quiete fun staying together.
the best thing is that, right in time- on Monday my 5 LOST parcels from China arrived! What a moment. After 8 Months! also truely unbelievable!! All trust in china& uganda post recovered. and what a festival to see all my books, and souvenirs, and pictures and shoes (....) and job literature exploding out of the boxes. so happy!
and more happy , cause i am leaving in 5 hours! 'red nose' and ' cold ears' i am coming!

"advent atvent, die sonne brennt"

this is my frst pre-christmas time in a hot summer continent, and it is indeed very very strange to get into a christmas mood when you wear tshirts and skirts, and santa claus red woolen outfit doesnt match the current temperatures. christmas trees and mullet wine are very displaced here. okay, christmas in china is also not a tradition, but at least the frosty temperatures in BJ and the christmas market of the embassy matched somehow well. here i am wondering who is buying the ren-deer with lights to place in his garden among the banana & palm trees. my house staff is at least totally fancying the chritsmas songs playing out loud...tststs...
luckily i am leaving for christmas season this year to germany, spening 2 weeks with family & friends. one of my first urgent plans is to crash the christmas market, drinking mulletwine , packed in layers of sweaters and hat& gloves with a cold red nose.

my car is a kindergarten

Clemens & Sascha

i had my first visitors! and what fine visistors they were. clemens is a super old university wohnheim friend of mine, whom i havent seen for almost 4 years. He came down to Uganda with his BF sascha, for 2 weeks, and besides i had not so much time for them cause of work duties, i thgink they still enjoyed those days. trip to busia, sipi falls, rafting, kampala, and murchinson park. it was so nice revitalising our friendhip, as we would have seen us the last week - and not only because of the choclate cake -, and getting to know Sascha who is also fabolous (not only as a pilot)
at 9 pm

at 4 pm (FAQ: why are we better looking after 10 waragi tonics and dancing?)

frei nach enid blyton: "wir sind die 5 freunde:" sascha, miss mattieu, katja , clemens und Molly der Hund," wir sind die besten freunde, yeah" .....

busy-bee

this weeks have been crazy busy- been to nairobi for a week, came back , had the rafting adventure the other day, the next day(sunday) i was off to prepare the sanitation week in Luwero, the begiining of the week started with a reception of 10 german journalists, who have been invited by DED to report about us and uganda. so i was sentenced by the country director to accompany them for 3 days up to a very tiring trip to soroti. on our return i developed fever and i lay 3 days in bed. okay, nbot fully in bed, because between i had to go to the doc Stock(ley) to check that i havent by any chance chought malaria (i haven't....) and still some hours in office to prepare this week. cause this week i have 2 days of training workshop for my 6 local experts and then 2 days of water group meeting. the next week is probably also full with a workshop in busia, and then i need to organize my house move....
ufff..... but i assume that everyone is in pre-christmas stress those days........
and i am so much looking forward to the christmas holdidays in germany, and i eventually had the de-stress illness beforehand, so that i will be mighty fit and not completely exhausted when exiting the airplane.

but as promised i uploaded my pictures on flickr and for those of you in china with limited access here 2 during rafting and 2 after rafting








true reward from the Source: Nile beer and the magnificient sunset over the Nile