bombings

For those of you who have heard the news, we are all safe and well. For those of you who haven’t heard the news, kampala has experienced several bombings. The death toll has reached 76, many of them not Ugandans. The night of the final game of the fifa world cup, somalian suicide bombers exploded in the middle of several gatherings of futball fans. We know every place that was bombed. We have been to most of them, but we rarely hang out there.

Oddly, that night, Sunday night, we are usually in kampala hanging out. But that day we left around 6pm because we were bored. I went to watch the game at the local resort down the road. The only reason we knew about the bombings was cuz someone in seattle called at 2am asking where we were. Sleeping, like we always are at 2am. Of course we are safe, why wouldn’t we be. Well, cuz there were bombings in kampala. …oh.

So now few people in kampala are out after dark. All the bars close at dark. President musevani has declared a week of morning. And obama has condemned the attack. Thanks obama, that will really show them. I remember a time when bombings which killed Americans would elicit a fairly blunt and explosive reaction from my country. Americans felt safe going to random countries. Now people who blow up Americans are merely verbally condemned. That’s just sad. Nearing pathetic actually.
Here at the sight, we feel safe. We are the only mzungus on our peninsula. They would have to actually come looking for us in order to find us. We don’t hang out much at major mzungu hang-outs. And we are going to stay out of those areas for a while.

So, we are safe. We are ok. Don’t worry about us.