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A good afternoon to all of you,
A month has gone by since my last update, so there is a lot to tell. As Chris described in his last blog, we spent Christmas on a remote island in Lake Victoria. After celebrating New Years Eve on a festival in Kampala, Ralf (a friend who is currently [...]

Dear all,
I would like to start this blog with the cliché “Happy 2012!!” for all our followers. Thank you for taking interest in our project
We have been taking some time off to celebrate the holidays, spending Christmas on a fantastic island in Lake Victoria. Nothing to do all day except sleeping, eating, swimming [...]

Hello everyone,
It is time for my last blog of the year, as Yoba will go on holidays for the next two weeks. Today was my last day at the Ugandan Industrial Research Institute (UIRI), where I was working together with our Ugandan colleagues in a very relaxed and enthusiastic atmosphere. Typical for Ugandan planning and [...]

Hi Yoba fans,
After a somewhat extended silence  it is time for an update from my side. The last weeks in Uganda have been, well, surprisingly normal. Living in Uganda for more than 3 months now, we have become so used to the life here that it becomes increasingly hard to imagine life back at home. [...]

Dear readers,
It is the first day of December (although the weather would not suggest it) and I am officially half way my stay here. However cliché it may sound, it feels like time has flown by. I am happy not to be leaving quite yet, and feel good about the point we have reached. Surely [...]

Hello my faithful readers,
I fear I will have to start this blog in the way that I begin most emails: Sorry for not writing for so long, but life is really overtaking me at the moment!
Almost two weeks ago, Chris and me were confronted with an unpleasant choice. Since our visas were about to expire, [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the time has come for the much awaited update on my side of the world:
After almost 2 months in Uganda the dust is starting to settle, the excitement of novelty is slowly starting to wear off and I am more getting used to the everyday life situations. Holding my [...]

Last Monday night I was plagued by a rather bad conscience, because I had just managed to work for one day after my recovery from the beloved chicken pox before our friend Dominik arrived in Uganda to visit us for a week. The travelling would not leave much time for productivity I feared.
Wednesday morning we [...]

Hi readers,
Last week started of spectacularly for our project: We attracted the attention of the manager of the yoghurt factory at UIRI, who is now eager to work with us. The first experiments we conducted with him watching our every move then surpassed all expectations. Through increasing the temperature during fermentation to 45 degrees, we [...]

While waiting for the rain to stop in the village of Katete to make my way back to Mukono I realize now is a good time to write my new blog. The last few days I have been here to do some experiments with the yoghurt under the somewhat more primitive circumstances this factory offers. [...]