do you want to help?
I found out yesterday the Grant Proposal I wrote for the kitchen has been approved! It was very good news, because the $532 will help the construction of the kitchen a lot! Additionally, I am fund raising in a short time span if you are interested in helping out Kyabakuza Primary School. The funds raised will partly go towards materials for the kitchen, and partly towards helping get supplies for the students like uniforms, shoes, socks, pens, and notebooks. However, funds must be in by Monday, July 27 and if it is later than that date they will not go towards my project. Everyone who donates will get a hand-made craft made by a member of my class.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
nvudde eyo!
I have returned!
response to: Kuli kayo, Welcome back
It has been a while since I have updated this blog. I have been very busy and the internet here is few and far between. Plus I don't get much time to use it. I get home from school at 6:30 then if I want to come to town to use the internet, I get there after 7, and this wireless place closes at 8- which is also the time it gets really dark here. But here are some highlights since last time:
*I white-water rafted the Nile, all the while cracking jokes with my companions about being in "denial."
* I made guacamole for my class. I think most of them liked it, judging by the majority who wanted seconds. Yet many has some very disgusted looks on their faces... but it was pretty quality, fresh guac. I decided to make it for them because once they found out I like avocados they were bringing them faster than I could eat them! Before I knew it there was a pile of 20 in my room.
*I traveled to Rwanda, and saw 2 powerful genocide memorials. Rwanda is gorgeous- rolling hills, field of crops everywhere. When I had to be home at 11 pm on Saturday to meet 5 of my host sisters and host mom, I had to take 10 different rides, using 6 different types of transportation (including the back of someone's bicycle and a matooke truck) totaling 15 hours.
*The kitchen project has been coming along well, there was a workshop at school a few weeks ago to show how to mix cassava flour, sand, and boiled water. The kitchen is about halfway finished.
Kato John Peter shielding Mugerwa Innocent from the guacamole, Naluwu Victoria peering curiously from behind
enkima- monkeys monkeys everywhere at Lake Nabugabo!
Photo courtesy of Ssabwe Tom
students learning how to mix cassava, sand, and boiled water to make cement
the majestic Nile River, shortly after we rafted down its perilous rapids
response to: Kuli kayo, Welcome back
It has been a while since I have updated this blog. I have been very busy and the internet here is few and far between. Plus I don't get much time to use it. I get home from school at 6:30 then if I want to come to town to use the internet, I get there after 7, and this wireless place closes at 8- which is also the time it gets really dark here. But here are some highlights since last time:
*I white-water rafted the Nile, all the while cracking jokes with my companions about being in "denial."
* I made guacamole for my class. I think most of them liked it, judging by the majority who wanted seconds. Yet many has some very disgusted looks on their faces... but it was pretty quality, fresh guac. I decided to make it for them because once they found out I like avocados they were bringing them faster than I could eat them! Before I knew it there was a pile of 20 in my room.
*I traveled to Rwanda, and saw 2 powerful genocide memorials. Rwanda is gorgeous- rolling hills, field of crops everywhere. When I had to be home at 11 pm on Saturday to meet 5 of my host sisters and host mom, I had to take 10 different rides, using 6 different types of transportation (including the back of someone's bicycle and a matooke truck) totaling 15 hours.
*I got my hair braided by some of my host sisters and a family friend. My class is split on who likes it and who doesn't, I'm not quite sure but makes bucket showers easier!
*I agreed to play cards with some young men who stopped me on my home, and showed them some card tricks on their table outside. When I attempted to explain them on the of the simpler ones, it took a few of them a long time to fully realize what happened.
*I have been attempting to teach my host sister hot to use the computer, as well as some interested students. They have been coming along well, especially with typing. When Ddumba Frank was typing, whenever he had to backspace a letter his friends would all remind him to put another space even if there already was one. So it yielded things like "I have my friend s like Mutyaba Tonny, Mulinda ."
*I ate a goat skewer. In Rwanda they are called brochettes which makes them sound very gourmet and elegant. It was pretty tasty. I compared it to the Ugandan ones which are slightly more sketchy and sometimes not as fully cooked. I have yet to try a grasshopper.*The kitchen project has been coming along well, there was a workshop at school a few weeks ago to show how to mix cassava flour, sand, and boiled water. The kitchen is about halfway finished.
Kato John Peter shielding Mugerwa Innocent from the guacamole, Naluwu Victoria peering curiously from behind
enkima- monkeys monkeys everywhere at Lake Nabugabo!
Photo courtesy of Ssabwe Tom
students learning how to mix cassava, sand, and boiled water to make cement
the majestic Nile River, shortly after we rafted down its perilous rapids
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