Sunday 21st- Red Chilli

Today began with a 3 hour journey to a camp called Red Chilli in Kampala. Once at Red Chilli we set up our tents, had a decent lunch, Ugandan curry for me and then played some cards. Afterwards we just chilled out and began getting ready for the night out in Kampala.

The first stop was a restaurant/bar/club called MishMash. We all sat around eating and drinking for an hour or so, I had a good cheeseburger. After eating we headed into the main part of MishMash and sat on the steps and tables watching the band and smoking Shisha. When the band finished they asked for people to come up and do a karaoke.  The highlight of which was Pav’s (Afro wielding eccentric Russian/Israeli/Canadian Jewish volunteer) who sang a rousing rendition of the Pokémon theme tune in Hebrew. We all joined in on the choruses and yelling Pokémon where appropriate, although we’re not sure how much of the ‘experience’ was understood by the confused and amused Ugandan locals.

We then left MishMash and went to a club practically next door called Casablanca, which I could only describe as a weird (but cool) small Ugandan version of Lola Los. Our group were the only Westerners in the club and got some interesting looks from the regulars there who were all smoking fags and shishas inside. After the initial awkward few minutes of everyone looking confused, regulars and volunteers included we began drinking and having a laugh. After 15-20 minutes the club suddenly began filling up with more locals and regulars who had obviously heard that a big group of Muzungus (what Ugandans call Westerners) had hit their club. It was a very friendly atmosphere and belong we were all intermingling with the locals who were dancing and joking with us. A couple of them got a bit overly friendly with the girls but all in all it was a very good and funny night. At around 3ish we left the club and headed back to Red Chilli for the night and early start for Monday.