A couple of months ago, I traveled to Lira to attend a friend’s graduation party. I was fortunate to be in the company of another lady friend with whom we shared an endless streak of stories and confessions on the bus. For purposes of this article we shall call her mercy (real name withheld on request). It was a time to remember, trust me. Mercy and I have since resolved to do more of these kinds of trips together. In fact soon we shall be doing an ‘Around Uganda in 30 days’ kind of journey just for the fun of it. So if you know of any places you can recommend in this country, please do the needful. We shall be more than glad to try them out.
The journey was supposed to be for more
than 6 hours but in 30 minutes we were in Lira. Anyway, that is how it felt. At
about 1pm we were there checking in at the Hotel. I will not bore you with the
inconsequential details of what happened at the Hotel before the party started
later in the evening.
Now, some of you are going to question and
say but Musumba Zak why don’t you tell us everything? Why are you hiding facts?
To be honest with you I am not hiding any
facts. Of course the things that happened could bring an interesting angle to
the story but I am the story teller and therefore I chose what to include and
what not to include in the story. In other words, the day you travel upcountry
with a lady, check in at a certain Hotel and it is your turn to tell the story,
you can give us the details of whatever will have happened at the Hotel.
Back to the gist of the matter, at the
party that evening everything was wonderful, we feasted on Chicken, Kalo,
Malakwang and all those nice delicacies from the North. Somebody gave the new graduate a gift of a
goat and I thought that was wonderful. I almost asked her to sow the goat in
the Musumba (pastor) you know.
But the crowning of it all was the gift of the
song specially composed for the graduand. Its chorus “Congratulations my
daughter upon your success, may God bless you” accompanied with those enthusing
strings of the guitar could not leave me seated and I was dancing to the song
as soon as it started playing.
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