Near death expereinces in Africa

ok... so dont get too excited about the title, but wanted to share some tidbits of danger from Kampala. As mentioned we are back in Kampala and have been since Monday. This week has been a bit more lax than the last two and our schedule has not been as full. After returning we spent our first few days visiting some Rotary projects in schools and in mother awareness clinics an AIDS care center, a farm, and some cultural sites around town. At the mother awareness clinic I personally vaccinated 2 babies for Polio (kind of cool) they were actually going to let us give babies shots too if we wanted but I decided to opt out as I likely would have passed out. So... on to the near death experiences.
1.) Almost Fell in a hole: On Tuesday Peter and I set out to find the safari office to confirm our reservations for the safari some of us are going on this weekend. In this process we managed to get lost in Kampala (which was not the scary part at all). As we were walking i was looking around for the 5th street sign. What we found out the hard way was there are no street signs anywhere in Kampla. So while looking around Peter yells out "hole!" I look down to see a 2x2 hole in the middle of the sidewalk that I was about one step from falling in to. It was about 5 feet deep and full of trash. Good chance that if I would have stepped into it I would have knocked out all of my teeth and I am pretty sure Dentists in Kampala are not winning too many awards. So that was experience #1
2.) Almost ate Glass: On Wed. we visited a dairy, poultry, pig and coffee farm. After driving 2 hours through unexpected road construction we arrived, then it down poured for an hour, then we had lunch and headed back. Kind of an unproductive day but hey we got to see a farm and have lunch with the owner in Uganda so no worries. After we got back Alex and I went to the hotel Africana for a drink and a snack. The Africana is likely one of the top 5 hotels in Kampala so a pretty decent place. We ordered a drink and some samosas. After the second bite of samosa I noticed something hard in my samosa. Now I have gotten rocks in my rice a number of times here so I figured no big deal but this seemed big. I reached into my mouth and pulled out a green pea sized piece of GLASS!!!. I cant make this stuff up. Thankfully i didn't down it and caught it. After some thought I decided to not say anything because with customer service not really being king, prince or even the butler here i figured I would have no traction. So i finished my samosas carefully and had a beer and went on my day
3.) Rode on a motorbike in Kampala traffic: In the previously mentioned story with peter we got lost. In addition to that we were also running out of time to get back so we hopped on a "boda boda" which is what they call these motor bikes that you get from place to place on here in Kampala. Imagine three grown men riding a motor bike and weaving through Kampala traffic. Our ride was not too risky but none the less something that probably was not the safest.
So all in all an eventful week back in Kampala. We're off to some meetings tonight and then to a coffee processing and bottled water plant tomorrow before setting off on SAFARI on Saturday.