I'm Katie Lewis, a writer who has been based in a number of countries around the world, including Canada, Uganda and China. Currently, I live and write in Vancouver, B.C.

humour
One very odd note stuck on my door

One very odd note stuck on my door

The other day I arrived home and found this note on my front door. In fact, I found three identical notes on all the doors surrounding my apartment. My roomate and I are the only foreigners in the building and it seems there is a need for our services. We laughed pretty hard. They big...

Cheese heaven

As much as I enjoy the food here there are things I miss. Cheese. Oh cheeeeese. I love you so. My cheese experience in Uganda was rather lacking. My cheese experience in China has been slightly better. There is a large selection here of cheese if you go to the fancy import stores, but you...

Colonel Gadhafi and his band of merry… women

[youtube=http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=jD3Qolg-dbw] 40 women. One man. Their goal? To protect him. Yeah yeah, I know it sounds like a lame T.V. reality show, but I find Libyan leader Gadhafi and his all-women security team fascinating. Oh, and today he became the new chair of the African Union. When Gadhafi was in Uganda last year, a photographer...

The produce police

As I was perusing my Ugandan news the other day a story came up about peanut butter which made me laugh. Read it here. It got me thinking about another incident which happened recently with U.S. border guards trying to confiscate such edible monsters – from me. Now, you first need to know that I...

The Ugliest Woman in Uganda

Yes folks, that’s her. Just look up. In the past month, I’ve discovered something about how Africans perceive the way I look. Apparently, I am a hideous human being in their eyes. It’s all rather hilarious actually and started about a month ago when somebody at work slipped me an ad from the newspaper and...