Lukonzo & moving in

Lukonzo language has lots of ‘mawanasueruhoro’ sort of sounds in it with a lot of rules on everything agreeing together (not as bad as Arabic), so we are thankful for our good language helper John, the electrician, and our dictaphone and notebook. With these and many hours spent this week with stallkeepers and villagers we have become conversant with 30 phrases of greetings and basic questions. We hope to continue intense study for another 5 weeks.

Prior to moving into our attractive but partly furnished semi-detached 2-bed bungalow we visited Kasese 40km away to buy a few basics to cook with (also bought a 4kg pawpaw for 60p). On entry yesterday we found that full furnishings had all been boxed away out of sight, and we didn’t need anything! Wonderful.