Eivind screws up

On the 18th of October around 6:30PM Eivind tells Håkon that he is a little hungry. Håkon is also a little hungry. The last time they ate was at 1PM, and it could be up to three hours until they get supper. Eivind says that he wants to go to the market and buy a roll-egg. (fried egg rolled into a chapati (a local burrito which is tasty!)), and he agrees to buy one for Håkon as well. Eivind approaches the man who is making the roll-eggs (let's call him Steve) and tells him that he wants two (aryo!) roll-eggs. Steve smiles and nods, and the two are getting along perfectly. Eivind is handed the first roll-egg after a few minutes, and everything seems to be coming along smoothly. But when the second roll-egg is finished, Eivind notices that it is given away to another customer. "What in the world?" thinks Eivind. "Something is wrong." So, Eivind again approaches Steve and asks him if he understood that Eivind wanted not one (acel), but two (aryo) roll-eggs. "Yesyesyesyesyes", of course he understood. But as more customers arrive and walk away with roll-eggs in their hands, Eivind is now certain that either 1) Steve is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, or 2) Steve has got something against mzungus (white people). After hanging out at the market for about an hour, Eivind is finally given roll-egg number 2 (Steve's friend Emanuel has taken over the business for a few minutes (Emanuel is a good english-speaker, and has realized that Eivind has been waiting for along time), but it comes with a lesson: "Here in Africa we don't consider time. It just is not an issue." African time... You gotta love it.

When Eivind gets back home, it it getting close to 8PM. The family is back, and they have already started preparing supper. They are pretty amazed that it took more than an hour to buy two roll-eggs, but they had to agree that something like that could easily happen in Africa. A familiar creature enters the living room and says: "Hi, I'm Winnie." Eivind thinks: "But I know you, Winnie. You live in this house together with us," but he decides to play along and answers: "Oh, hey, I'm Eivind. Nice to meet you." Eivind notices that Winnie has changed her hairstyle and pays her this compliment: "You have very special hair, Winnie." Winnie laughs and walks back out to the kitchen. In to the living room comes Immaculate, the mother of the house, and tells us that "that is my sister Winnie (not the Winnie that lives with us)." Good job, Eivind. You shmuck...

In other news, I have gotten my very own ugandan phone. Håkon and I bought the same phone (the cheapest one in the store), and these phones contain only one game: Copter. You know, the game where you are supposed to guide a helicopter through a tunnel by lifting/lowering it over/under certain obstacles by pressing/releasing a button. Not the most exciting game in the world. So, to make this game a little more exciting, Håkon and I made a bet. First one to get 1000 points, that is 1000 seconds without crashing. The loser has to wash the winner's clothes at the next laundry day. The winner, of course, was me (thank you, thank you), and since wednesday is our day off from work, Håkon decided to spend it on doing laundry. It looks like he is having a blast. (Pictures are on the previous post)
PS: I can now inform you that it took him around three hours to finish it all. He's a trooper!

Well, that's all for now. Not a very serious blog post this time, but I'll come back stronger than ever. See yah!