Today, Hameed, along with many other staff at UWEC had to attend a workshop on procurement procedures for the zoo. The process for obtaining things, whether it be drugs, food or equipment is a long and arduous process here in Uganda and the management wanted to make sure that everyone was up to speed to make sure things were done correctly. So, because of this there was not much for me to do in the hospital today. I took this opportunity to relax a bit and do some other things I needed to get done, like sorting photos and working on my blog.
Pete, again invited me out for BBQ. This time he had roast chicken, along with pork, but he also had some roasted potatoes he wrapped in foil. They were really good! After dinner we decided to go out to town. First we headed to the Casino, because Pete was feeling lucky tonight with Roulette. It was a nice small place. After that we went to meet up with one of his friends who owns a restaurant in town. His name was Yoti. He was born in Rwanda, but his parents were from Belgium and Tanzania! We also got to meet some of his friends that were there with him: Maxim (Belgian living in Uganda) and Audrey (Ugandan going to school in Toronto!) and Maxim's sister Tra. All really nice people and around my age. After his restaurant closed we decided to head to another little bar called Red Rooster's which was a lot of fun. Good music, pool, beer and roast pork!. It was a pretty late night too... I took a bota-bota home around 3AM, only to find there was no security at the front gate anymore...hmm.. Well I just put my climbing skills to the test and hopped the 10 feet high gate. Success. It was an interesting walk back to my banda as well. The moon was really bright that night, so I could at least see where I was going. I had noticed as well that the chimps were making more noise than usual and seemed to be really exerting dominance aggression on each other. Anyway, I finally made it to my room and crashed, after finding out on my email that I had a job to come back to for the summer! That was a perfect end to this really fun night.
Toronto Zoo, you better be ready for me when I get back! :)
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