This post will be brief- I'm sitting in the Karagwe library and (lets be honest) Facebook and gmail have used up most of my half hour of internet time.
We ended up waiting until yesterday morning to leave so we could to get Jade's bag before heading to Tanzania, so we got into Karagwe and Misha Guest House around 6:30 last night. It was a long day of travel that included 50 miles on an unpaved dirt road, running out of gas and sending our driver on the back of a passing motorcycle to get more, lunch of a deliciously greasy and filling Ugandan street food called "rolex" (rolexes? rolecii? whats the plural of rolex??) and a bunch of bananas each the size of my pinky. We also made the quick stop at the equator for the quintessential tourist pictures straddling the two hemispheres (pictures to follow soon!) where I definitely had a Walk to Remember moment before I realized it wasn't exactly a border...
Today we walked around town and met lots of people, including that partners at 3 of the local NGOs with which Amizade works. We will be starting our placement tomorrow (hopefully) and we're looking forward to that. A student last semester helped start and initiative that got disabled members of the community help, in whatever capacity it was they needed, and has been responsible for people getting treatment as far away as Dar es Salaam. We're going to be continuing the job- going out with translators and interviewing people about the services they received, how well they've been able to reconnect in the community, etc. It should be interesting and really rewarding to go meet so many people and see how our work is changing their lives.
Ok, got to run- just had our first class with Caitlin, now back to Misha for dinner, brought every day by Eggbert, and on to the disco tonight!
We ended up waiting until yesterday morning to leave so we could to get Jade's bag before heading to Tanzania, so we got into Karagwe and Misha Guest House around 6:30 last night. It was a long day of travel that included 50 miles on an unpaved dirt road, running out of gas and sending our driver on the back of a passing motorcycle to get more, lunch of a deliciously greasy and filling Ugandan street food called "rolex" (rolexes? rolecii? whats the plural of rolex??) and a bunch of bananas each the size of my pinky. We also made the quick stop at the equator for the quintessential tourist pictures straddling the two hemispheres (pictures to follow soon!) where I definitely had a Walk to Remember moment before I realized it wasn't exactly a border...
Today we walked around town and met lots of people, including that partners at 3 of the local NGOs with which Amizade works. We will be starting our placement tomorrow (hopefully) and we're looking forward to that. A student last semester helped start and initiative that got disabled members of the community help, in whatever capacity it was they needed, and has been responsible for people getting treatment as far away as Dar es Salaam. We're going to be continuing the job- going out with translators and interviewing people about the services they received, how well they've been able to reconnect in the community, etc. It should be interesting and really rewarding to go meet so many people and see how our work is changing their lives.
Ok, got to run- just had our first class with Caitlin, now back to Misha for dinner, brought every day by Eggbert, and on to the disco tonight!
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