hey muzungu

So far I have been on a plane with a broken engine and had to turn back to Schiphol, traveled to Entebbe the next day, spent the evening and night drinking beer in the garden bar of my hosts, went to the local market where a live chicken was selected, butchered and prepared (I played no part!), and tried to get over a culture shock. It seems you can’t really prepare yourself for Africa.

The people are very kind, both my Dutch hosts, their expat friends and the Ugandans I have so far talked to. The country is exceedingly beautiful, and very very poor. The contrast between the cozy expat life here and the lives of Kampala locals just a few streets away is harsh.

I wrote a very long text in my Finnish blog and am now kind of out of words. So you’ll get some hipshots from the nearby market and a promise for more details later.

Was I supposed to update this thing?

I’ve been only blogging in Finnish during recent months, sorry. But what has happened? We had our third year exhibition thingy at Labs55 in The Hague and it went very well. After that, we had some exhibition stuff at Gallery Pulchri, also in The Hague. In February I started my internship with photographer Jan Banning, and that has been great. Tomorrow we travel to Uganda.

I will try to keep you up to date more! And maybe even upload some photos.