Well hello!
My first week in Jinja is wraping up.
It is Saturday the 19th, the day of my first Suubi meeting (buying necklaces from the women). It starts in about 2 hours so i am just getting in some blogging at "Flavours", and yes i spelled that right. It's a restuarant/ internet cafe. I have been sitting here for over an hour. 60 minutes of that hour were spent trying to get the internet to work. Everytime i go to a cafe this happens. :) i am excepting it as my bad luck that will follow me throughout my time in Jinja. It is very unfourtunate but the truth.
Well let me catch you up really fast on what has been going on while i have been here.
I LOVE THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE HOUSE!!!!
Praise God they are awesome people who are encouraging and funny.
I would have had a very dull 3 months if i thought these people were without personality.
The more i get to know Kate the more i love her.
She is a very bold person with a great sense of humor and energy. She has been my escort for my first week in Jinja, along with Rachel who is staff. Rachel also has a confident personality. She is married to Randy (who is also staff) and they are great. Alex is my cousin and he and i came down here at the same time together to help out.....he is okay i guess.....jk.
- sorry if i repeat myself. i have a difficult time remembering what i have already covered in my previous blogs-
Wednesday Kate, Alex, and I went into the village of Baboo to visit a lady named Agnus, who is apart of Suubi. There are i believe four villages on the south east side of main st./our house that we visited. The first one being Baboo. It took us 45 minutes by foot to walk there, and as we walked we passed many schools full of kids. All in uniform, all playing in the yards, and all of them waving at us as we walked by saying "Mazzoongoo, how are you?". Some of the kids just pointed and started running towards the fence saying "Mazzoongoo...Mazzoongoo!!!". It was really cute, and really funny the different reactions depending on age. If you are from the ages 2-13 you are really excited to see a white person walking down the street. You greet them, wave, practice the english you learned in school by saying "hi" or "bye". If you are 13-17 you ask for money from white people you see on the street, or my favorite...stare. If you are 17 and up you say, "Mazzoongoo you owe me my money." or maybe "Mazzoongoo you take me home with you." and sometimes in the very unfortunate case for a girl, i hear, "Mazzoongoo you come home with me." And at that my friends I have to laugh, and I call them silly or I say no way. Or they just stare. Never have I seen a person stare discreetly either. Well hello!
My first week in Jinja is wraping up.
It is Saturday the 19th, the day of my first Suubi meeting (buying necklaces from the women). It starts in about 2 hours so i am just getting in some blogging at "Flavours", and yes i spelled that right. It's a restuarant/ internet cafe. I have been sitting here for over an hour. 60 minutes of that hour were spent trying to get the internet to work. Everytime i go to a cafe this happens. :) i am excepting it as my bad luck that will follow me throughout my time in Jinja. It is very unfourtunate but the truth.
Well let me catch you up really fast on what has been going on while i have been here.
I LOVE THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE HOUSE!!!!
Praise God they are awesome people who are encouraging and funny.
I would have had a very dull 3 months if i thought these people were without personality.
The more i get to know Kate the more i love her.
She is a very bold person with a great sense of humor and energy. She has been my escort for my first week in Jinja, along with Rachel who is staff. Rachel also has a confident personality. She is married to Randy (who is also staff) and they are great. Alex is my cousin and he and i came down here at the same time together to help out.....he is okay i guess.....jk.
- sorry if i repeat myself. i have a difficult time remembering what i have already covered in my previous blogs-
Wednesday Kate, Alex, and I went into the village of Baboo to visit a lady named Agnus, who is apart of Suubi. There are i believe four villages on the south east side of main st./our house that we visited. The first one being Baboo. It took us 45 minutes by foot to walk there, and as we walked we passed many schools full of kids. All in uniform, all playing in the yards, and all of them waving at us as we walked by saying "Mazzoongoo, how are you?". Some of the kids just pointed and started running towards the fence saying "Mazzoongoo...Mazzoongoo!!!". It was really cute, and really funny the different reactions depending on age. If you are from the ages 2-13 you are really excited to see a white person walking down the street. You greet them, wave, practice the english you learned in school by saying "hi" or "bye". If you are 13-17 you ask for money from white people you see on the street, or my favorite...stare. If you are 17 and up you say, "Mazzoongoo you owe me my money." or maybe "Mazzoongoo you take me home with you." and sometimes in the very unfortunate case for a girl, i hear, "Mazzoongoo you come home with me." And at that my friends I have to laugh, and I call them silly or I say no way. Or they just stare, and i have never seen a person stare discreetly either.
So anyways, we finally reached Agnus's home. It was a two room home with cement a floor, walls, and ceiling. She has pasted newspapers/magazine articles or pictures up on the walls as decoration. She had a piece of fabric hanging as her door in the front and a large blanket hanging up after her two chairs that were in the first room to devide from the bedroom. Sorry if that was confusing. :) Whenever you visit someone in their home in Uganda and they are expecting you, you always come hungry. Agnus had cooked up quite a meal to serve us. She had a whole pot full of Posho (which is like a fluffy corn meal), greens (basically spinich...with tons of salt) and green sauce (which had sim sim in it...so spinich chopped up with a peanut butter indian flavor paste)
She served us with forks, which was very nice of her because normally they eat with their hands here. We stayed for about an hour or so and talked about her kids. Which she had three and another kid she took care of was her brother's son. We heard her story. If she was from Jinja or not. I asked her if she liked dancing or singing. She said no....but she was blushing, so i think she really does. :) Some friends of hers came by to say hi, i think they were making fun of me cause i kept tapping my foot to the music outside and humming and they pointed at me and i heard my name as they laughing and mimicked my swaying and tapping of foot. LOL i am determined to see Agnus dance now :) i know she can!
well thats all for now....i cant be late for the meeting.
bye bye
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