My Side of the Mountain: This Time For Africa

As I’m sure many of you know, last night was a very exciting night in the World Cup Soccer/Football Tournament. USA played Germany, which was exciting for my American friends and me, and Ghana played Portugal. Since Uganda is not in the World Cup, our Ugandan friends are cheering for all the other African teams, so while unfortunately for them Ghana lost last night, the USA made it through to the next round. Last night was also a special night at the KIHEFO compound because it was the last night that another large group of students was here with us. A group of students from Mbarara University has been here for the past month, and they left today.

In honor of them, and in honor of the CFHI students who are leaving next week (which includes me—time has gone by so fast!) Dr. Geoffrey threw a party at the compound. We watched the football games, were treated to a buffet of Ugandan food and soda, and had a DJ and large speakers playing songs to dance for the whole night. I’m pretty sure the entire town of Kabale could hear the interesting choice of songs, which included, but was not limited to: Ludacris, Katy Perry, Carly Rae Jepsen, and African dance music. Waka Waka (This Time For Africa), the song that Shakira did for the 2010 South Africa World Cup, is very popular here, and played on tv before the game. Our DJ also played it as the closing song at our dance party. (You can listen to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRpeEdMmmQ0).

At that point, around 11:30PM, Dr. Geoffrey drove the entire KIHEFO staff into town so we could experience a “night on the town” (read: an hour of standing and watching other people dance) at a dance club in Kabale. It was quite an experience. He stayed with us and then drove us home, at which point we all went to bed exhausted. Enjoy some pictures below.