1. There are no Lions
2. There are no Elephants
3. There are camels - used for meat and walked around for charged pictures.
4. There are monkey's. Like crows and deer back home - Don't have a picnic in a monkey infested zone. They will steal your food, plates, utensils etc!
5. English is the national language but only a few can say more than, "How are you?" "I'm fine." Lugandan is what they really speak.
6. They have two season. Dry and Wet. And yes in Winter - August, it does actually get cold! (That's only if you've gone from 30+ to 18 degrees.)
7. Everyone will stare at you!
8. It's rude to look people directly in the eye when talking.
9. Everyone speaks quietly.
10. You kneel on the floor when greeting your superior - yes kids, kneel to your parents when serving them juice!
11. Get used to eating with your hands...
12. It takes about 5 hours for an African to walk a mile.
13. Don't take offense if while talking to someone they just begin walking away.
14. They don't say goodbye when hanging up the phone.
15. There's 100 new boda (motorcycle) drivers each day.
16. Privacy doesn't exist.
17. They ALWAYS touch you when talking - holding your arm, hand etc. Doesn't matter how long I live here I will never become accustomed to walking and suddenly someone grabbing my hand.
18. EVERYONE is terrified of dogs.
19. 1 in 100 Africans know how to swim - but some have invented a water dance to stay afloat...very interesting.
20. On arrival you'll think you've gone 100 years back in time with cracking eggs with a spoon, peeling potato's with a knife, cooking on a fire, side-saddling on a motorbike, wearing dresses and collar shirts, driving bikes from Downton Abbey and basically everything else.
21. If you're invited for lunch at 2pm you always arrive at 3pm because you won't be leaving until around 6pm.
22. You can bribe the police with 50cents to not get a ticket. But you should just keep driving when they pull you over, or just photocopy your license, so when they threaten to keep it you can just drive away.
23. There are no rules.
24. Borrowing doesn't exist. You just "lend" something to someone knowing you'll never see it again.
25. Everyone can do everything - or so they say :)
26. All the ladies hair here is wigs, save a few who get their real hair professionally done
27. A child's version of Scrabble is $100.
28. A HotWheel is $30.00
29. It's not a dessert. It's actually very lush and green in the village.
30. Traffic in Kampala is horrendous.
31. The kids in school learn about cars in Denmark...not sure how useful that is to them...
32. Everybody has a cell-phone
33. Aside from the Gorilla's Uganda doesn't have too many amazing tourists sites to see.
34. Everyone sings
35. Their dancing would be rated R back home but here it's just the norm.
36. The average age is 15.
37. 1 in 5 woman still die of Childbirth.
38. The streets are completely deserted when it rains. (When it rains...it rains.)
39. Eyebrows say as much as words.
40. Ugandans shuffle, not walk.
41. The whole country has the same diet - Rice, Irish Potato's, Matoke, Fish Sauce, Posho and Beans.
42. Instead of shaking your hand people just touch it gently. (Unless they're LDS and have adapted the firm missionary shake.)
43. They still cane in schools
44. Witchcraft is alive and well
45. As long as you have commonsense and local friends Uganda is a safe place.
46. The girls only want white men and the boys only want white girls...hence why nobody gets married!
47. Power outages are a weekly occurrence.
48. Emma is a boys name.
49. They can't pronounce L because in Lugandan it's an R.
50. They have Nutella.
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