* Of Ugada that is..
Alright people, i have returned from my future site visit...which damn near rocked my face off!!!
I hope you all are well, thanks for the emails, they make my week when i get your love via interent (that sounds inappropriate).
So, future site visit: humble abode (aka: no water, no electiricity, smaller than sarahs apt. in flag this summer, and i will be sharing a bathng area/pit latrine w/ a family of 8!!!)
my organization is dirt poor but filled with great fantastic people who seem very detemined. however, my intro. into my town consisted of meeting people for 8 hrs. straight with them asking me to give them: micrscopes, markets to sell their crafts, AIDS outreaches to taxi drivers, money, amongst ther things. let me put it this way, I will NOT be short of work, just funding, but hopefully, I can help with that too (grants, anyone??)
I am 1/2 hr. (by foot) from another volunteer who is living the high life in a shwanky digs on a campus: vaulted ceilings, proper kitchen, proper toilet and shower, electicity, water and 2 bedrooms: so, i will be spending some serious recueration time at this place, charging my phone and ipod.
There are Brits in my furure home now. Imagine my surprse to trek up to my new home, introduce myslef to the famly who will be my landlords, and then see these muzungus walk out...i was like "what the fuck are you whitees doing here?" anyways, they are loaded with $$, so i am goona try to get as much material objuect outta them b/f they leave the country.
All in all, it was a great expereice. Not really b/c i clicked so well witht everyone cause that was not the case, and awkward moments are quite frequent); nor was it great b/c i am in love with my housing, etc. it was just great b/c i am really doing this!!! and i have great support on the home front and here in Uganda and I know that i could not be doing this w/o all f you at home and the great people i have met here.
Ok, time is running low and i must go but first:
Mary: thank you so much for calling me!!!! your emai made me cry in this cafe and i love and miss you so much my dear and I got your text message!!!! yaya!!!!
love you all, wish i could put into words all i am expereicing here, but i will let all of you read my journals, cause i am writing them for you guys...to bridge the communitcation gap that distance and time is giving to us.
here's to feeling good,
lisa b
2 comments:
Hola mi hermanita. Thank you for your email early this morning. Nick told me he got your text about a dog humping a goat (or was it the other way around-?)and he was enthusiastically shocked and confused that he could recieve a text from you. I was jealous. When do you move into your new digs baby girl? They sound amazing...9 peeps to one hole in the ground? Two toilets to 9 peeps is bad enough!
Funny story para ti: This week me and Sarah started our sex-ed classes in Pallete high school. About 3/4 of the kids in this school have no teachers, so it is just complete "disorden" and then me and Sarah walk in with our vagina and johnson drawings (which are quite nice) and they just stop and stare gogle-eyed. Well, I was trying to get across to them that the vagina is not the place where you pee from you know, it´s the god-damn urethra. So, I asked, "¿Qué sale por la vagina? Por ejemplo, ¿cuales liquidos?" I was looking for period and babies...no, instead i got the kid in the front row screaming "¡Sémen!" And total chaos sprung out...in my mind and in the class. Alright, es todo. Love and miss you soo much. Thanks for the updates. You really ARE doing it, and that is fucking fabulous.
LOVE YOU,
ME
So Lisa pants you work in co-op with the EAC, correct? That is your organization? Ok, just wondering, was just reading about it...love you,
ME
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