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Starting 2018 with the 52 Week Challenge

Starting 2018 with the 52 Week Challenge - Ugandan Edition

Last Played: A Thousand Years – Christina Perry Last Watched: One of Patricia Bright’s new videos Last Read: BantuFam – On My Way Home Disclaimer: This usually ends up being a long, easy read. Happy 2018! I decided to put this up today because, not only am I going to start writing on this blog again, but it’s going to become a kinda amalgamation of my succinct, well-writ (hopefully) thoughts on…

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4 Fun Ways To Raise Money For A Wedding

4 Fun Ways To Raise Money For A Wedding by @funshelf. Happy Birthday Celina! One year closer to 30, and marriage no?

There’s been a time when your phone beeped and you hoped it was a Mobile Money alert or a cute Good morning! text from the crush only to find a wedding meeting reminder. Sigh. A series of angrily murmured responses always follows: “Broke men shouldn’t be proposing.” “Why want to hold a wedding bigger than Beyoncé’s yet your husband-to-be isn’t Jay-Z?” “I can only contribute if I’m entitled to…

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#celina anyokot #wedding fundraisers #weddings in uganda

your girl

(she's) your girl for #UgBlogWeek

she is your girl but sometimes you wonder you think, “Do I really know her?” the movies tell you that your girl will do this, that and that but your girl doesn’t she’s not the girl in the Cosmo mag nor the type that your boys last dated your girl is your girl the one you choose each morning you rise your girl is not an open book she’s your favourite arcade game you’ve never reached the highest…

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#angela #nkima #poetry #uganda #ugblogweek #written

Giraffes at the Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda. Taken during #koiKoiNorth by Andrew Pacutho.

#uganda #fromuganda #murchison falls #andrew pacutho #giraffes #koikoiug #koikoinorth

conform

like the sea meets the green and leaves a splurge my body shimmies how can I yield to man’s demands when mine titillating self is the most unique thing I have ever seen

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#DYK These Ugandan Podcasts?

Are you into podcasts yet? #DYK These Ugandan Podcasts? Join the conversation! @ugbloc

I didn’t get on the podcast train as early as some people did. I stumbled upon my first when I was looking for audiobooks and audio discussions to listen to during commutes or when I’m too tired to watch anything on a screen. I got so into Startup that I decided podcasts were a thing I needed in my life. They are very convenient for me so I listen to ALT’s Vogue podcast, the regular IMF and…

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#podcasts #uganda #ugandanpodcasts

Moon'd

Moon’d

there you have it, a long night of the full moon s’high upon our beloved human skies luna impassioned sings my hometown croon deny your exploits, play to that guise live with the illusion that it’s not you anything, but your actions, control the tide there’s the horoscope; stargazing, it’s true celestials on planets taking us for a ride HiiiPoWer, some may call it, SuperPower and yet I wonder,…

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Moon'd

Moon’d

there you have it, a long night of the full moon s’high upon our beloved human skies luna impassioned sings my hometown croon deny your exploits, play to that guise live with the illusion that it’s not you anything, but your actions, control the tide there’s the horoscope; stargazing, it’s true celestials on planets taking us for a ride HiiiPoWer, some may call it, Superpower and yet I wonder,…

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volte-face

went to bed in a black & white TV box woke up today to a world in technicolor Did you get the memo? cause i did not but my stomach’s aflutter at the possibilities not I only just turned around except there’s the usual “idk”s yet would it be better if I had in fact gotten the memo would it? #nkima

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Gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda - the Rushegura Gorilla Group.

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A lot like you

I was told

The average girl begins to plan her wedding at the age of 7

She picks the colors and the cake first

By the age of 10

She knows time,

And location

By 17

She’s already chosen a gown

2 bridesmaids

And a maid of honor

By 23

She’s waiting for a man

Who wont break out in hives when he hears the word “commitment”

Someone who doesn’t smell like a Band-Aid drenched in lonely

Someone who isn’t a temporary solution to the empty side of the bed

Someone

Who’ll hold her hand like it’s the only one they’ve ever seen

To be honest

I don’t know what kind of tux I’ll be wearing

I have no clue what want my wedding will look like

But I imagine

The women who pins my last to hers

Will butterfly down the aisle

Like a 5 foot promise

I imagine

Her smile

Will be so large that you’ll see it on google maps

And know exactly where our wedding is being held

The woman that I plan to marry

Will have champagne in her walk

And I will get drunk on her footsteps

When the pastor asks

If I take this woman to be my wife

I will say yes before he finishes the sentence

I’ll apologize later for being impolite

But I will also explain him

That our first kiss happened 6 years ago

And I’ve been practicing my “Yes”

For past 2, 165 days

When people ask me about my wedding

I never really know what to say

But when they ask me about my future wife

I always tell them

Her eyes are the only Christmas lights that deserve to be seen all year long

I say

She thinks too much

Misses her father

Loves to laugh

And she’s terrible at lying

Because her face never figured out how to do it correctly

I tell them

If my alarm clock sounded like her voice

My snooze button would collect dust

I tell them

If she came in a bottle

I would drink her until my vision is blurry and my friends take away my keys

If she was a book

I would memorize her table of contents

I would read her cover-to-cover

Hoping to find typos

Just so we can both have a few things to work on

Because aren’t we all unfinished?

Don’t we all need a little editing?

Aren’t we all waiting to be proofread by someone?

Aren’t we all praying they will tell us that we make sense

She don’t always make sense

But her imperfections are the things I love about her the most

I don’t know when I will be married

I don’t know where I will be married

But I do know this

Whenever I’m asked about my future wife

I always say

…She’s a lot like you

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Marc Jacobs Fall ‘16 illustrated by Iva

rollersinstinct

Logan Watts and Virginia Krabill’s photos from their bikepacking trip around Uganda. You can catch more photos and stories from their trip over on bikepacking.com,