Greetings from Mathilde and Sidsel
We now feel highly integrated. When walking to the market to buy some avocado, the locals now say, “Hello – how are you?” and we answer back in Luganda (the Uganda language) “I’m fine thank you, just came from the guest house which enriches us with impressive animal sounds”.
This implies that we no longer are referred to as Mzungus. From an event management perspective, Friday night proved no different as we entered the Jazz bar in Bugolobi and were greeted by our elderly-constantly-hugging-Jesper-friend from the Bebe Cool concert. At the end of the day, it needs to be emphasized that this paragraph might be slightly ironic - we will always be Mzungus.
We have been teamed up with Helen and Kasim, which both study the Master in Entrepreneurship at MUBS. Our research deals with the level of development and outcome for informal entrepreneurs linking up to multinational hotel corporations in Kampala. So far it has been a challenge to get information from the hotels. However, today we had a small breakthrough having one very successful interview, which also provided us with further contacts. We are therefore now looking forward to an intensive week of interviews and project writing. Kampala is hectic, easygoing, warm, rainy and most of all a happy place to be.
Roger over from Mathilde and Sidsel
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