19/5/11

Oliyoteya! (that's "how are you doing"/"hello" in Lugandan)

We are learning a few new words now that we have spent a few days here, but I'm really bad at remembering them!Today me and Kristi were in the outpatient clinic gym again. Some of the patients we saw today had injuries several months ago from "boda boda" accidents (what they call motorcycles).
After we got back from the clinic we got lunch at a nice restaurant. As is normal in Kampala, there were armed guards at the door who looked into womens purses and scanned the men with metal detectors. The food was traditional Ugandan food, which included goat, a banana/mashed potato type dish, and something that vaguely looked and tasted like potato salad. I can't complain about a free lunch, but I don't think I will be ordering Ugandan food once I'm back in America!
We came back to the university and headed down to the rugby field to place some soccer, but a lot of the students here were already gearing up for a rugby match so we watched that for a while. The 8 of us glaringly-white individuals stuck out like sore thumbs, but by this point in the week we are getting used to it! (The name for a white person here is "muzungu". Kids will say it to you and wave as you walk by. It isn't meant to be derogatory)
The 8of us PTers made a homemade dinner tonight consisting of spaghetti and sauce. It was going perfectly until Dallas sprinkled some oregano he found in the kitchen on his spaghetti. He gave some to Jenelle to put on her plate and as soon as we looked at it we realized that what used to be oregano was now tiny bugs. yummmm
I'm getting less and less afriad of the gecko/lizard things that seem to like hanging out in the curtains of our house. Didn't even jump when I saw one this time :)
Need to get to bed soon because we are getting up in the morning to do some laundry. Clothes get really stinky and dirty here from all the pollution and red dirt roads. There is a few clothing lines in the back that we'll use to dry them out while we are at work. Tomorrow me and Kristi will be beginning our morning in the ICU of the hospital. It is going to be very interesting and different from what we have seen so far.

ps. mark and brian i meant to say this before but there are just a couple of super random CDs lying around this place (probably from other students who have stayed in this house) and thefirst one i saw and the only one i recognize is a King's of Leon CD.