It’s been awhile I know, hope y’all are doing well in summertime USA. I miss it bigtime! It’s always summertime here, and it gets a sister missing the seasons.
The Jaajaa warrior spirit showdown is a income generating project I am planning. It mixes traditional African beliefs and WWF.
I am going on vacation in the beginning of June to beautiful Zanzibar, oh word! I am going with my homegirl Angie and meeting Sarah Cahillane of Bton infamy. She is closing her service in Botswana and climbing Kilimanjaro(hardcore?!) and then to the island. I am super excited and can’t believe how little I’ve travelled since I got here. I haven’t even been west of Kampala. Oh well. But I can make a pretty killer gnut sauce with pumpkin leaves.
I am chugging along at work, two steps forward and two steps back is about the best I can expect. But PC does say that when you’re expectations drop you become much happier, and by golly they’re right! I mean you have to be completely crushed of any hope you have for Africa, but then you can come back from it and see the small things and be happy. Like today on my way into town the taxi conductor stopped the taxi for the oldest lady I’ve ever seen and took her a few miles down the road for FREE. Okay, this may not seem like much to those outside of Uganda, but taxi conductors are evil and greedy and I have seen them push pregnant women out of moving taxis when they don’t have enough money, so this was a minor miracle. I did have to spar with him later when he tried to overcharge me(I won), but you take what you can get!
I found out a few weeks ago that my super home girl Anna Hieronymus is coming to visit and I am so happy. She’ll be coming at the height of circumcision season so hopefully we’ll get to go to some fun parties. Bugisu bali ingo awe (Bugisu are in their house!). It’s a good time with dancing you can’t believe that you are actually seeing. I really want a video camera. Somebody in my TC (village treading center) is selling one, but he wants like 200 bucks. It’s just an old Super8 and I don’t think it’s worth it. We’ll see. I really want video of Emma’s grandparents. They’re old. Kuka(grandfather) is 94, and he fought “for the Queen” in Germany in WWII.