Ugandan Parliaments

Again- I woke up to a Rooster cock-a-doodle-dooing and a Muslim African man on a loud speaker praying in his native language. I woke up with the sun rise this morning, and probably will for the rest of the time spent in Kampala. Every day, all year round the sun rises at 6:30 and sets at 6:30. We are on the equator so that is logical.
Since we were meeting members of Ugandan parliament today, we were advised to dress up in dressier casual attire. I wore the dress mommy just bought me that had African-like prints on it along with my little cow girl hat! I thought it was cute and fit perfectly well for our activities for the day.
At breakfast, I greeted the MUBS students and then we carried on to go get breakfast. Those veggies packs that I enjoyed so much yesterday morning were on the buffet again! Or so I thought- this time it was stuffed with BEEF. I do not eat red meat and I almost ate it this morning! I had fresh delicious scrumptious mangoes! Along with mango juice and yellow toast and brown hardboiled eggs. I’m telling you, if these people ever came to the states they would be sick for DAYS with all of our grease, preservatives and massive serving sizes! At breakfast the students were telling me how their friends were asking them if I was South African and that I look like I am South African. Haha guess that Barbados is finally kicking in and showing up! They also said I look like Brandy- ha hilarious.
We went to the Central Uganda Parliament (their government system) and visited its institution. After we all successfully made it through security we were greeted by the PR/tour guide man named Ken, and he told us about all sides of the building. We then walked into the South entrance and were actually able to sit in the chamber of parliament room and discuss political matters with one of the representatives. Next we went to the Buganda Parliament (which is a kingdom) and discussed their political landscape and together with the MUBS students compared both government systems. After all of this we went to the King’s palace and saw how Idi Amin (past president) used his power and his type of government to rule his country. We went to some torture chambers, and saw the lake that a King specifically requested and also ran into Bugandan children who CHASED us because we had candy and were taking pictures. (I will update pictures soon!!!)
Last night- dinner was at a Chinese restaurant (Fang Fang’s), under the stars. Since we are on the equator the moon was RIGHT ABOVE US. So beautiful! Who ever knew Chinese in Uganda! They had Tilapia yummmm

That's all for now folks!
(sorry this was a day late! getting to the internet now a days is SO HARD!) next blog coming momentarily.