Today marks our (almost) halfway point in the trip: we've been here for exactly three weeks now and we have three weeks and five days left in country (not that I'm counting or anything). The last three weeks, we all know, are going to fly by. Tomorrow we are going to attend a music competition one of the schools we visited last week is participating in, Saturday we are visiting Sipi Falls - an amazing waterfall about two hours from where we are staying via car, and Sunday we will attend Church with the woman who has been helping us cook and clean - she wants to introduce us to her friends. Next week we are working on the fence, which should be finished either next week or the first few days of the following week. Next weekend we are attending a traditional introduction ceremony and spending some time in town - we have to get funds for the safari. Then we are going to safari for four days and we're back here for a week. We are currently slated, the last weekend we are here, to attend a circumcision ceremony, but we may decide not to attend depending on security concerns. We'd all love to go, it's a traditional ceremony that draws thousands of people, but it depends on what our host feels is safe or not. I can't believe it. Sometimes it feels like we've been here for months, other times it feels like we arrived yesterday.
One of the little boys on the compound - the two year old I wrote about earlier - has developed a terrible cough. He's taking medicine but he doesn't seem to be getting better and the cough seems to be getting deeper - he so young. He's at the house playing with us on the front porch all the time and we love spending time with him. We were talking with mother the other day and she said she can't afford more medicine for her, so we're all chipping in a little bit of money to take him to visit the doctor. A doctor's visit here costs about 30,000-40,000 Ugandan shillings (approximately 13-17 USD) - split between eight people is the least we can do for him.
Today was an off-day at work: our "manager" was in a boda-boda (motorcycle - public transportation) accident on his way in yesterday and it's feeling well enough to make the journey yesterday. We were planning on going for a hike and climbing the "mountain" again to watch the sunset. Unfortunately, the (larger) mountain and Mother Nature conspired against us - it's been raining all afternoon and prevented such trips. While I recognize we're in the tropics, it rains here just about everyday - not what I expected for the dry season. I don't think there have been a total of four days yet that it hasn't rained.
Tuesday a few people rode into town in the afternoon and picked up some Nutella and Peanut Butter. For dinner we had nutella, peanut butter, banana chipati - it was amazing. If I remember on the way back to Entebbe I'm going to pick up some chipati mix and possibly some peanut butter - locally made with only peanuts, sugar, and salt - tastes great!
That's really all that's been happening here lately - been a pretty boring couple of days aside from working. Next week will probably be the same, so don't be surprised if I don't update more than once next week - particularly with the power situation - we lost power again earlier today for much of the morning. Hope all is well!
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