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Life blossoms and tends be very enjoyable when you have literally spent the whole of your life time in one place and then later an opportunity of travelling to explore, get exposure and learn from other people's culture, food, language, lifestyle etc knocks at the god-damn ass of your door! Uganda is my lovely motherland, a country blessed with diversity in languages, culture among others, so I grew up in my community and didn't get the chance to move across my country- not even going to the capital city, which is a tarhetted destination to everybody in every country, not only Uganda but also Africa! There are so many misconceptions and stereotyoes amongst tribes and races in Uganda- for example my tribe, they say we are known for being night dancers and cannibals, which is apparently not true because these type of people exist everywhere. I learnt about all tribes in my country during my time in school and I did pick interest in two things that is; to travel and experience the life of the Karimojong people- in school we were told they are nomads and cattle keepers of nature and they do not wear clothings,they the most hostile human creatures in Uganda, they loath education, live in manyatas literally meaning huts among others, and my second interest was to go west of the country and have a feel of Mt Rwenzori which is the highest point in Uganda and it's snow capped- yet, we only know snow is something for the whites season or something like that. So, last year I got the opportunity to work as a volunteer in the implementation of a certain international project, I travelled all over Uganda- but all wasn't fine and satisfactory, not until I l stepped my feet in the Karamoja region where I would spend my next fifteen days engaging in different activities. I worked in about ten schools- with young people inn youth clubs and also holding advocacy meetings with different stakeholders in that region. I made friends with children from school, like six of them and they invited me to their homes apparently for dinner and get to know their people, I could only go to four homes owing to time factor and I dinner with them in their houses- one home was an urban family and the rest were in rural settings, I was shocked to learn that, these people are not what we were taught about in school- apart from raring livestocks, the Karimojong are never hostiles, never rigid- I'm running out of all negative adjective people describe them with! It's true, some years they (the Karimojong) killed my uncle who was a soldier but it only happened because they are known to graze their cattle with guns- basically for protection, so my uncle and his team bumped on them thinking they were from looting cattle from other communities, because the Karimojong claims that every cattle in this planet Earth belongs to them. And they started exchanging gun fires, unfortunately my my uncle was shot and left lifeless, may his soul rest in peace! All in all, the time I didn't spend with them, the interaction to get to explore them, the fun among others, I did realise they weren't as bad as other tribes think- truely some do not put on clothes, some do! That's why there is some common saying in my country that: " We will not wait for the Karimojongs", that's relating to different development initiatives put in place by the government, so it means the Karimojong people will find other tribes on the way as they cope up with civilization and sustainable development.