Rural Visit

I rode a motorcycle for the first time in Africa!! Saturday was the rural visit where we went about an hour outside of Kampala to visit rural farmers. The area we went to was actually where Dr. Senteza grew up. His dad is the main person who sets up the rural visit. The bus took us to the rural city, but in order to get to the farms, we had to take motorcycles, or as they call them in Uganda boda bodas. We all got our own boda boda and we jumped on the back and off we went into the country.

When we pulled up to the farm, our farmer was recording our arrival on video camera. Then he introduced himself as John and we heard his story. He was raised by his grandparents on a peasant farm, but he was successful in school and went to college and became a successful government worker. He decided to retire at the age of 50 and he wanted to return to life like his grandparents so he returned to farming.

John has 10 total acres, but they are divided up into 3 different farm lands. On one he grow different types of bananas, the other pineapples, and the last cocoa beans. On his property he also has free range chickens. While we were walking around his farm it started raining and I mean RAINING!! It started down pouring, so we ducked into a small little abandoned farm house for about an hour. It was a good time just to talk and relax.

Once we were done walking around his farms, we walked back to the city. Once we got back to the city, we went to his house in the city and had a feast. We had traditional food, but we also had little children sing to entertain us. It was a lot of fun!