Not a good day!!!

Well just a quick note. Today was really not a good day. I (Geoff) went with 4 other guys to Jinja for the big agriculture show they put on one week every year. It is a 3 hour drive, thanks to a new short cut we found (It used to be 5 1/2 hours). Leaving at 6am we really made great time only to have a small accident when we arrived in Jinja. A boda boda (motor cycle taxi) with two people on the back crashed into the side of our van. Praise God that no one was really hurt, the driver had a helmet on and it was a good thing because his head hit the rear side window, shattering the glass. Well as things go we went with him and the passengers to a clinic, (directly across from where we collided), got them treated (we paid) and then began the VERY painful process of negotiating for what should be paid to whom. Since I am the white guy and "all white people are rich like Bill Gates," it was assumed that I should pay and boy did they try to get a bunch. Thanks to our good friend Mulu ("David Family" father) it turned out to be not too bad, but still not enjoyable. All in all I had to pay the medical bill and another 110,000 shillings. That's a total of around $100, which really is alot here, but again, at least the driver was not seriously injured. It took around 2 1/2 hours and made the show not so enjoyable. Enough of my complaining...