Tide works just fine for doing hand-wash (and in fact makes the clothes smell all good). Thank you everyone who left us four load bottles of Tide.
Any sort of upside down container makes a good candle holder.
Bodas will always try to double or triple the price when they see you’re white.
Cocoa covered wheat flakes are far superior to Cocoa covered corn puffs. Cocoa covered wheat flakes are of course only available in Kampala
Whatever temperature you want the charcoal cook-stove will always be too hot, until the point where it instantaneously becomes cooler than you want and needs more coals.
Make sure you’re prompt to collect your finished laundry, often it is not dry and gets folded by the house help still wet and will get moldy if you don’t reclaim it promptly so you can spread it out to finish drying
Ironing really speeds up drying.
If the milk seems at all sketchy because the power’s been off or the fridge got turned off, just skip it, don’t risk it.
The five second rule still applies here.
Flashlight batteries never last long enough.
Ant spray is effective
Mosquito spray is also effective at repelling spiders
A bottle of febreze doubles effectively as a window propping open device.
Don’t leave anything valuable in the living room.
Don’t leave food you don’t want the kids to eat out in the living room either.
Real better is infinitely better than margerine
If you leave a stick of butter in the fridge you may return to find child’s teeth marks in it where they thought it’d be funny to bite into and taste.
Little Shammah is practically a monkey and can climb just about anywhere.
If the water is on, take a shower, you never know when it will go back off.
If the electricity is on, use it. Also remember to charge any rechargeable appliances like laptops and camera batteries. The law of unpredictability applies here too.
Things I’ve Learned in Uganda (So Far) was last modified: December 30th, 2017 by Jessica
