I have a really long, detailed post in the works but I’m really tired and I have to get up early tomorrow, so you’ll have to wait a day or two until I finish it! In the meantime, here are a few other random notes on Uganda:

-I’ve only been sick once! It wasn’t fun, but it also wasn’t the end of the world and I think I’m almost back to 100% again.

-I might as well change my name to muzungu, which is slang for “white person”. I hear this word a minimum of 100 times a day, and probably half of that is just passerby commenting to their kids or friends, oh look a muzungu, they aren’t even addressing me! But the other half tends to be adorable children yelling “oli otya muzungu!!” (how are you white lady) and then giggling and hiding, so I guess it’s not so bad.

-the endearing red dirt is now just red dirt to me. It is everywhere all the time. Seriously, it even changes the color of your sneezes, I swear. When I rinsed my legs off in the shower today it was like I had been in a mud fight…

-…however the cleanliness of the shower water might also be contributing to this. We do have running water, but it’s certainly not for drinking. Sometimes I’m a little unsure if taking a shower is making me much cleaner in the long run, add in its freezingness, and for the first time in my life I understand why some people don’t bathe.

-people don’t say “bothering” or “inconveniencing” here, instead they say “disturbing”. So people ask me all the time “How do you find the ______ in Uganda, is it disturbing you?”

-Ugandans also have a proclivity to overuse demonstrative pronouns. I have no idea why, but it’s never “Bob and I went to the store to buy a gift for the neighbors” its “This person and I went to the store to buy a gift for these people.” Generally I have no idea who anyone is referring to in these situations, and have to ask. I can’t figure out how everyone else catches on to who were talking about…

-I can now say: leg, arm, window, door, fork, knife, axe, goat, dog, flower, leaf, tree, plate, jump, sit, dance, come, pineapple, banana, grass, mat, sofa, tea, coffee, cup, book, paper, im sorry, how are you, whats up, good night, welcome back, thank-you, goodbye, its okay, sugar, car, wall, eye, mouth, tongue, shoe, tooth, jackfruit, chest and fingernail in Lugandan.
Which now that ive listed it all seems pretty pathetic for the amount of work it’s taken!

-one of the main phrases I hear in English from our "housegirls" is "Baya, beatta-you!" which is supposed to be "baby boy, im going to beat you!" They say this to Jeremiah everytime he misbehaves, and obviously they never actually beat him because he is incredibly adorable and therefore spoiled. I'm starting to find it pretty hilarious at this point