Some funny episodes! (one in norwegian, I'm sorry!)

En dag Margrethe og jeg skulle en tur til byen lot vi kameraene ligge hjemme siden det aldri skjer noe på veien til Ntinda (nærmeste sentrum). Gjett hva. Jepp, nettopp i dag skjedde det noe: Da vi kom oss ut på hovedveien møtte en stor gjeng med digre kyr oss! Sikkert en 20 store kyr med gigantiske horn! Men kunne vi ta bilde, niks! For kameraene lot vi jo ligge hjemme, hurra!! Når du minst venter det kommer det store motivet strålende imot deg. Typisk!! Kyra fylte hele veien og stoppet hele trafikken, det var et uforglemmelig syn. :-) vi hadde ikke mye valg enn å stille oss opp i kanten og vente til de hadde passert, både foran og bak deg. (må si det kanskje var litt skummelt da de begynte å løpe litt mot oss. :-) Dette var jammenmeg en opplevelse av de få. ;-)


They say that when a person is funny in a language, the person manages the language… Is that really so??
Magi and I took a taxi from Ntinda to our home, Kiwatule. (Ca.15 min drive.) As we have taken taxies for some weeks now, we have understood that when you want the taxi to stop you have to say “Masao” or “Stage”. And we (as the “African Girls” we are) wanted to do like them, say it in Luganda…. It was my turn to try out my luganda-skills… :-)
We were almost by our stop when I suddenly understood that I didn’t REALLY know how to say it… hehehe… so when we came to our spot I shouted out: “MAA SAAOO!” The bus burst out in laughter! And that was just because of my silly luganda! It was just SO EMBARRASSING! And I really felt like my face was red. (Something that also is very true) but after all I’m a strong woman, and I like to make people happy so this wasn’t really just embarrassing, it was also very funny. (even though the Ugandan people on the bus thought it was a bit more funny than me… :-) but after all, I’m very satisfied; I have never made that good atmosphere in a taxi before… Not even in Norway!
So this was an example that you don’t have to manage a language to be funny in it. What I said was complete wrong from the correct pronunciation and tone, but even though; I was funny in a different language! Hurray!:-)


I remember that one time they had to push the taxi to get it to start. They were about 4 men that pushed the car and ran next to it while the driver tried to start it. I was just so scared that it would stop or that it didn’t wanted to go up the hill.