this last week was actualy quit calm accept the last day, I was only 2 times nearly kild this week.

The building went very smooth, accept some arguments with the builders, so they had to breakout a peace of the dooropening to the bedrooms, that had to be 4 feet and they made it 3 feet..

It was going real good.

Most of the roof on

Under the veranda. The houses are small but big enough for a boy alone. They are each 5 x5 mtr plus a veranda.

In the meanwhile the windows and doors were arrived, so the builders can put them in too.

Now it was a lot more calm for me I enjoyed my self more on my lost days of this trip. And most of the time I do that by walking very quit trough my forrest and that is not always a good idea in African bush. Today I stept or nearly stept on a snake, with a lot of noise from the grass he was running instead of attacking. It was my lucky day because I think it was a Black Mamba from about 1.2 mtr. I hurt my hip a bit by the reflex movement at the moment I heard and saw the snake. DONT WALK IN THE BUSHES WITHOUT MAKING ANY NOISE.This was the first time this week I nearly died. But it gives a lot of adrenalin and everything looks much more beautyfull after.

Were I feel good, my nieuw planted forrest.

In the meanwhile I started to make concrete pole's for the fenche. The wooden one's get eaten by the termite's all the time.

I made a mould from timber, I put 4 wire's from 5 mm in, put in the concrete and next day I take of the mould and start to make 2 more.

In my last day's I made 6 of them another 500 or so to go. The fench is arround 1300 mtr long!

The day before I had to go home I learn myself to prune and thin the bamboo.

I did it with a fine saw usualy used for iron, after I tought I know how to do it I learned my boy's so they can do the rest. About 80 culm's.

The fodder we gave to the Cow, Goat and Rabbits and they all like it, so we found an other sourch of food.

This is the result after some pruning, on the right pruned, on the left still to do, the tree's in the middle, more in front are Mahogeny Tree's I planted them about 4 - 5 years ago. The house you see on the right in the background is the new house from the boys that we are building this trip.

On one of my walks I found this beautyfull white Snale, never seen it before.

And than the as good as finished house, tommorrow 28/07 the day I have to go home the builders starting with the plastering and than a smooth cement floor, we dont want the boy's get Jiggers.

My last day (28/07) was the most creepy day of all, aspecialy noon and evening.

In the morning I went to Luwero to buy more cement and lime for the builders, maisbran for the chicken seeds from Maïs, Patato, Beans, Oignon, Carrots, Cabbage, Tomato for the boys to plant. And I was buying Advocado, Matooke, and Fresh Beans to take home for my wife.

And than the horror started.

My rental car stopped, about 3 km from my house in Magoma. Nothing anymore.

I phoned the owner and he tought it had to do with the connection from the battery.

In Uganda you are never long alone when your car breaks down, in les than 10 min the first "mechanic" was working on the car, regular on the phone with the owner of the car. After maby 1.5 hour they phoned a "real mechanic", he came and he started with an other battery, than working on the start  engine and than after an other hour he found out that the timingbelt was brooken.

In the meantime ( it was very hot and no shade) I said, guy's I go home I still have to pack my lugage and I have to get a plane. By than it was arround 17.30 and I had to leave here arround 23.30 so they had 6 hours to fix the car and it should be dark in one hour.

I took a boda boda and went home. The owner of the car promssed me to come with an other car if the first one should not be fixt ontime.

He had to come because I still had to pay UGX 600.000,00 . He came at 23.30 and we drove to the place were they were still busy fixing the car. And than it started, shouting, yelling, the car owner and the mechanic, why did it took you that long and ofcourse about the price. Than the carowner wanted me to pay, no way my friend I hired your car, if the timingbelt is breaking its you to pay. But to end this long story, we left to the airport at 00.30 hour in the morning; End good all good? No!!!

The driver was driving a bit strange but it went reasenoble good till we past Kampala. After there on Entebbe road he realy looked very tired and sleepy, I tried to wake him up now and than, but he said there is nothing wrong. But the driving got very worse, slowing down, speeding, breaking on the last moment. In the end from one side of the road to the other , I had to grab the wheel a few time's. I said come let me drive the last few km, no, no there is nothing wrong and he also diddend want to stop, I tought I am going to die on this road.

At that moment I all of a sudden I understand what was wrong, the further we came the more he was drinking from his little bottle of water, only it was no water but Waragi. I took the botle from him he went a bit mad but admitted that he was drinking and wanted his botle back. I said I give you your bottle back when uou bring me the last few km slowly to the airport.

I reached the airport and I emptyed the bottle on the street.

This was the end of my July trip 2017.

End was it all enough now you will ask,

No I like trills and I am planning my next trip proberbly 1é week of october for a whole month.

In the meantime the builders finshed the wallplastering and the floor and my friend Bernard made the electricity.

See you later.

Thursday night I took the hard decision to fire one of my workers, the one that was with us from the beginning, family of my wife. Our relation was troubled for some time and I had my reasons to fire him. I gave him UGX 1.000.000,- to make a fresh start somewere else.

So one worker left, Joseph. We dont know him very well but he was a hard worker, he was working with us for 1.5 year now, and I trusted him. THAT WAS A MISTAKE.

Next morning Joseph started to work as usual, first brought the cow to a place were they had enough grass and than helping the builders.

When I came back from my short walk with coffee in the forrest, I diddend saw Joseph he was not with the builders anymore.

When I came in the house I saw my bedroom was open and yes my litle safe was gone, toghetter with Joseph.

All my money, pasport, ID, bankcards, everything was stolen.

I went with one of the builders to the police station in Kiwoko, they wrote done everything. Are you going to search now was my question, because there were 3 patrol cars in front of the office and about 10 coffee drinking policeman. But that was wrong thinking of me, searching was a very expencive thing, petrolcars, manpower. They were not asking but I had to pay, Joseph just stool everything, I had NOTHING left.

Back home there was a nice surprise, when I was at the police station Joseph came back to my house and trough a bag with all my papers in front of the door and ran back in to the bushes. The builder that saw it happen was ofcourse to afraid to follow him.

After a phonecall with Agnes, she send me 50 euro with Western Union so atleast I had some money in the pocket.

After this last ( it was UGX 3.500.000,-) I had to go to work. I had to do everything alone now, first I had to find the cow and bring them back to the prairy and then take care of all the other animals. 

And I had to prepare things for the house, I was making concrete beams for above the doors and windows; see next pic.

After I finished the beams I had to make the roof constructions, because the builders were going fast.

Next day 1 new worker was coming and I was willing to give it a try, atleast he could take care of the animals.

2 days later my second worker will come, he worked for me before but was chased away by the worker that I fired now. He was happy to come back.

In the meantime the builders were rushing. 

I worked hard to finish the roofconstructions on time, I had to make 11 of them.

In one of my breaks, I always walk a bit in the forrest to clear the mind, I met this little guy.

I had to hurry with the roofconstruction.

 For the last one they had to wait a bit.

They brought the HDPE tank and we were putting it in.

After some arguing with the builders during this week, they made the doors to the bedrooms to small, they wanted to do the roof different and so on, the week ended peacefull in my head thanks to the BAMBOO. I had two workers again, next week we put the roof on the houses and the windos and doors are ordered.

This shoot came just above the ground first day I was here, now about 2 meter.

Very soon the last episode of this trip.

There is one thing I forgot when I told my story from the first week, it was also something that went wrong so it belongs in this row of disasters that happend this visit.

Because I come often to Uganda and all the time I am coming I have to apply for a visa, I tought I will apply for a multple entrance visa.

But when I worked on that on internet I contacted the office of external affairs and they advised me ( because I am married with a Ugandan woman) to apply for a residential visa. After sending all the papers they needed there was only one thing to do, I had to appear before the workpermit office. So I went there at 14.00 hours, it took me 4 hours to get there because of a accident that happend just before I arrived at Kampala. After 1 hour waiting I went inside for the second time and asked the lady there if I was on the right day and hour because I travelled 8000 km to be on time for my appearing before the workpermit office, and after an other half hour I went in again with the same question. In the end I just wanted to leave they called me in, there was the officier that I was spotting for 2 hours walking arround chatting, drinking coffee and fanciing the lady's, that means he was very busy! He asked for my pasport I fogot to put money in, he looked in it and said we can not give you a residential visa because you dont stay long enough in the country. I answered you knew excactly how long I was in the country before and I want to stay longer periods from of next year, and your office advised me to go for this type of visum. I asked, why did I had to appear for your office, WE WANTED TO SEE YOUR FACE. 

A whole day spoiled, I was home in Magoma just before dark and could just see that the buikders made the fundation wrong.