This blog is going to seem like I have ADD. It'll include all the random information that doesn't fit in any specific post. No theme here, just little snippets of Ugandan life!
1. It is perfectly acceptable here for men or women to hold each others hands and it does not mean that they like each other. Just good buddies! When you talk with someone they like to hold hands the whole time as well...more of a connection or something...
2. Every so often you see an African cowboy. It's a status symbol or something to wear a cowboy hat, but not actually need it in life.
3. My family listens to the radio and one of our favorite stations is BOB and it plays country music!!! It's glorious!
4. If your stomach hurts here you say it is "quarreling."
5. I texted my brother Thor and asked him about school and then told him I missed him and he told me he missed me back!!! It made my week!!
6. Earplugs are a necessity here! My family is up until 1 or 2 somedays and gets up at 4 or 5 as well!! I don't know how they do it!
7. The ties here are short and fat! They barely reach the belly button sometimes and are just chunks!
8. It is extremely offensive to walk and eat here! No snacking on the run.
9. I have a gecko living in my room. His name is Gershwin. In one tribe they tell their children if they kill a gecko then their mom's breasts will flip to the back so as to scare their children into not catching and killing them because they eat the bugs in the home.
10. If I could re-pack and just bring one more thing I would pack a toe-nail clipper. I stab myself with them every night when I'm trying to sleep! I bled the other night!! haha
11. One of the other IMME student's was eating breakfast at his home when his 16 year old sister decided he needed a haircut and proceeded to butcher his hair. I can't even describe to you how hysterical it looked. It looked like an outline of the Rockies over his forehead!
12. Sometimes when we've had people over they have sat on the floor and eaten our supper with their hands. I thought it was just because we didn't have enough forks, but I actually found out that women are actually not supposed to get to use forks and they are supposed to sit on the floor. My father informed us that we were being spoiled. That the men are the only ones supposed to use the forks and sit in chairs. I'm starting to realize how patriarchal my family is.
13. I killed a cockroach as long as my palm when I was visiting at Kurty's home.
Well, that's all I have for now. Hope you followed all right. :)
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive in Christ... Ephesians 2:4-5
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