{"id":5685,"date":"2018-05-08T21:13:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/?p=5685"},"modified":"2018-05-08T21:13:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:13:01","slug":"reunion-in-jinja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/2018\/05\/08\/reunion-in-jinja\/","title":{"rendered":"Reunion in Jinja!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the past week, I have worked on transcribing my interviews and met with YOLRED<\/a> (Youth Leaders for Restoration and Development \u2013 an initiative founded by former abductees and others who were affected by the war to support youth).<\/p>\n

I went to Jinja last Friday. The journey started with a canceled bus at 8 AM and a one-hour delayed post bus from Gulu to Kampala. The trip was quite long (7 hours) as the bus stops several times on route. In Kampala, I changed to a matatu (the shared taxis) to Jinja with the help of the brother of my contact. The drive was \u2026 interesting. There are at least 15-20 persons in the car with all their luggage (be it bags of corn, rice, weekend bags). After dark, much rain, and delays due to queues, our driver decided to drive off-road \u2013 against traffic! After 3.5 hours, I finally arrived in Jinja where Matilda picked me up. Matilda and I met at the MFS preparation course in H\u04d3rn\u04e7sand. It was so much fun to reunite in Uganda. On Saturday, we went river rafting<\/a>, sightseeing in town, and had a delicious dinner right next to the Nile. Unfortunately, I had to go back already on Sunday morning to reach the last afternoon bus to Gulu which leaves at 1 PM. After the experience with the matatu on Friday, I decided to go with a safer, more comfortable, and expensive option: The Pineapple Express<\/a>. I can only recommend it. We arrived in just 2.5 hours and that included a stop at the bank. The service is a hire car and driver, which takes you from point A to B with whatever stops you desire (hence, the higher cost).<\/p>\n

This time, I will be back in Gulu for just three days as Matilda and I are going to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest to track the gorillas. I am so excited!<\/p>\n

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Matatu – the locally shared taxis (photo from http:\/\/www.livinginkampala.com\/information\/transportation\/transportation-in-kampala\/<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The first rapid aka. a four-meter waterfall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The boat actually did not flip but\u00a050 % of the crew went for a swim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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On our way to the rafting site in an open truck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Monkey on one of the main roads in Jinja<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Local artist in Jinja<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Nile (Jinja)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the past week, I have worked on transcribing my interviews and met with YOLRED (Youth Leaders for Restoration and Development \u2013 an initiative founded by former abductees and others who were affected by the war to support youth). I went to Jinja last Friday. The journey started with a canceled bus at 8 AM … <\/p>\n

Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa \u201dReunion in Jinja!\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[610,606,609,608,607,142],"class_list":["post-5685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ks-gps","tag-hrnsand","tag-jinja","tag-matatus","tag-nile","tag-river-rafting","tag-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5685"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5707,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions\/5707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}