Another Update

Hello All!
I hope you are doing well. I hear the weather in Michigan is being quite bi-polar, but what else is new. The weather in Uganda has been consistently sunny and around 80-90 degrees. But that will change in the next few weeks. Rainy season starts again and it won't be sprinkling. It will be a down pour for a few hours everyday. This should be fun walking to and from school in.

Life is good. I tend to do the same thing everyday. Wake up, get dressed, take breakfast, take a 15-20 minute walk to school on a red dusty road, tell the boda-boda drivers that I don't want a ride, having them drive past me on the roads which makes the roads even dustier, get to school, take lunch, classes, and walk home on the same red dusty roads at about 6. My feet are covered in dirt everyday.

When I get home, I take a "shower." My shower is a bucket. I bend down, scoop some water in my hands and pour it on myself until I feel as though I am able to wash myself. Then I do the same thing to rinse myself. I wash my hair by dunking my head in a bucket and washing it with shampoo and then taking a cup and pouring that on my head until I get all the shampoo out. So clean here is a relative term. I am clean enough that all the dust is off of me, but I am not clean by US standards. But it's good enough for me.

I mostly watch movies with my dad, little sister, and brother when he was still here. Then we all take supper. We eat at about 9-9:30 pm. I pretty much go right to bed afterwards because I am so tired. Then repeat the next morning.

Everything is still going well. I was sick all day yesterday. It was just a stomach thing, so nothing major. I am feeling much better today.

Last week Thursday was a national holiday in Uganda. It was Liberation Day. It's the day they celebrate the changing of governments. Even though no one really celebrates it, they just use it as a day off. So classes were cancelled except my politics class. After class I went to visit my mama at her shop for a couple hours. It was nice just to sit and talk with her because I don't do it enough here.

My religions and politics classes took a field trip to the Buganda Tourist Centre. It's where Parliament meet. So we got to learn more about how things work here and learn more about Buganda culture. We also got to see where the king used to live. Beautiful palace with a beautiful view of the capital city, Kampala.

Other than that there is not much to report on. Everything is going well. My brother Jonah went back to university on Saturday, but he will be back on some weekends. My sister Rita went back to boarding school in Kampala, but she won't be back. I have her address so I will be writing to her. Jemi My youngest sister goes back to school tomorrow, but she will be back everyday. It will be interesting to see what family life is like with them gone.

Oh, and one more thing. I'm going bungee jumping on Sunday in the Nile River. Sorry Karla!!

Grace and Peace to you all!