Starting to get settled in and living life!

These past 2 weeks have been full of adventures.  I have been getting into the swing of things with classes, my family, and hanging out with the community.  Its been really great to finally start to feel at home and have a routine. 

The other day walking home from school I met a group of girls all around the age of 11 and 12!  Being the age of some of my campers from summer I immediately fell in love with them.  We hung out like 4 times last week and one day I even painted their nails.  They would be waiting for me outside my house when I would get home and we just talked and hung out.  Its crazy to think about how similar 12 year olds are no matter where you are.  They like the same things and talk about the same things.  This really is one of my favorite ages so it has been a blast getting to hang with them.  Saturday night I had to say goodbye to them though because they all left for boarding school yesterday.  Its crazy to think that children here start boarding school at the age of 9!!

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This past weekend at school we celebrated sports day.  We played some soccer, ultimate Frisbee, some tug a war and even a egg race.  It was a great way to get to know some of the honors college students and work off some energy.  We took a break and had pineapple, watermelon, and passion fruit.  All amazing and delicious. 

We tried making a pyramid, it was a fail!

Me and innocent matched. It was pretty precious!

Last night we went to see a dance show called Ndere.  It had a whole bunch of dances from all the different tribes, it was a really cool experience to get to see everything. 

For one of my classes I have to do community involvement hours.  For this requirement I thought I would help at a caterer business.  This lady owns the business and its been a really cool thing to watch.  The last 2 weekends I have gone and helped out.  The first weekend we spent hours digging holes at her farm to plant banana trees, it was a tiring experience but really fun.  She has 2 sons my age but then the rest are older.  All her sons have families and jobs now but they still come back on the weekend to help their mom out witch I think is a really cool part of this culture.  This past weekend I spent about an hour cutting up onions and I learned how to make chapatti which is a really common food here. 

 Last weekend we dropped my brother Deo off at boarding school.  He is about to begin his final level of senior year school and I really am excited for him but it was sad to see him go. 

 

 

 The other day I did my first load of laundry.  Lets just say my sister thought it was necessary to redo all my clothes because I didn't do a good enough job!

 

Well this has been my life the last couple of weeks, its been going pretty well and I have been getting tan which I am enjoying.  I am really starting to get comfortable with the Americans and the Ugandans here so I am really excited about that.  We also have a lot of stuff planned in the upcoming month so that's gonna be a lot of fun too. 

 

Oh and also this past week, we went to go visit the Buganda parliament which was really cool.  We also visited the place where all the former kings and royalty is buried.  Since we don't have a king in the US it is a really interesting concept to learn about and that was a really cool field trip we got to go on!