Facts about Africa

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Hi everyone, I hope all is going well wherever you are! Today I didn't do much, it was kind of a rest day for me but my mom had meetings all day. The good thing is that it was in the house so we didn't have to drive! Today I just hung around the house playing soccer with the kids that live here and lying down and just resting. Honestly it was pretty fun. Since today was very uneventful I am going to talk about Uganda and Zanzibar because those are the countries that we will be in.

A fun fact about Uganda is that vehicles drive on the left side of the road and the drivers side of  the car is on the right side, not the left. It is very confusing and I always feel like we are about to crash. One funny but scary thing about driving in Uganda is the motorcycles. They swerve in and out of cars and in a traffic jam they just go in between the lanes! But there are no lanes so the cars are basically doing the same thing too! So pretty much there is just a big bunch of non-moving cars and motorcycles going 100mph in between the cars! It is very scary. Typically, between 2-5 people are on 1 motorcycle!  Whole families drive on them together.  Also motorcycles are the most used transportation device selling almost 150,000 in just the town of Kampala! Another fact is that in Uganda there is a law that for every tree you cut down you are legally obliged to plant another! I think that is a very good law because it means that if you follow the law there should be no loss of trees! I think this should become a law in America. Uganda is home to 11% of the worlds bird population! There are 400 billion birds in the world so that means that 44 billion birds live in Uganda. Those are some pretty cool facts about Uganda!

Some awesome things about Zanzibar are that the shortest war ever recorded by man was  the Angelo-Zanzibar War where the British bombarded the Beit al Hukum Palace and after 40 minutes a ceasefire was called. Zanzibar is popularly known as the Spice Islands because they used to be the worlds biggest producers of the spice cloves. Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the band Queen, was born in Zanzibar in 1946. His birth name was actually Farouk Bulsara. Zanzibar is famous for its mix of "exotic" beaches. Thank you for reading! Have a good day! Gatarina! (goodbye in Kinyarwanda)