Mixed feelings

I am travel tired, so promise to be brief. I had a very therapeutic trip to Kampala, which included lounging at the lakeside Speke Resort, working out at a modern gym overlooking the Kampala Golf Course, Ugandan kickboxing for mzungu women (which by the way includes drinking beer immediately following the class), and good food. Oh, and I did some work in between too!

After a sleepless night of election anxiety, I caught the post bus (more spacious than normal buses but also much slower) from Kampala back to Gulu this morning. I was sitting next to a German guy who is working at a hospital in Gulu and of course most discussion focused around the election results. We were swapping text messages from our respective informants throughout the ride. I must share that he received one from an individual at a European embassy (I will not mention which one), who declared that "those stupid Americans have voted for Bush to bomb for four more years." And what happened to our Congress? At least we got Salazar...

Kitgum is off the agenda because the road is just too insecure. Tomorrow I am suppose to visit Atiak camp, close to the Sudanese border, with the head of ACORD. Details will follow, of course.