Despite all the technological advances that appear to make the world smaller, we’re all feeling very far from home these days as we hear about all the Olympic fervour happening in Vancouver. It all looks like so much fun from this side of the world, and we feel like we're missing out! Reading Facebook status updates from people in the stands as Canadians win medals at home or seeing photos of my nephews all dressed in red to cheer on the Canadian women’s hockey team at Thunderbird Stadium can make a (slightly!) homesick Canuck just a bit jealous!
We’re not totally cut off though. We can stay on top of the medal count and read about the events online and most importantly a restaurant here in Masaka has satellite TV. We’re eleven hours ahead of Vancouver, so nothing is shown live. However, every day at noon SuperSport 2 shows an hour long highlight program of the previous day’s events in Vancouver. Paul, Megan and I have gone a few times to eat lunch and watch images of our city projected on the wall. We’ve been the only ones there watching, but every once in a while a few curious Ugandans wander in to check it out. Once they see we’re not watching football (and snowboarding, luge and curling mean absolutely nothing to them) they don’t tend to stick around. It's a fun way to spend an hour, and it is so great to see familiar places--we always look for people we know when the cameras pan the crowd, but no luck so far!
Given that we're so far away, here’s what we’ll picture when we look back on our Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics experience:
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