OLYOTYA!
Greetings from Kampala!
Uganda is da bomb– since everyone else explained today’s scavenger hunt, we’ll fill you in a little about what life’s been like the past couple days.
Our hostel is sweet, one of the rooms is open-air with bunkbeds and moaquito nets. last night was our first african rainstorm, that was an experience. lets just say no one was kidding when they said it rains hard in Africa! it was awesome watching and hearing the rain in the middle of the night from our beds.
Ok so new experience with the bathroom situation, yesterday rosie and I (kim) payed 200 shillings (like 10 cents) to go to the bathroom and we walk in and really truley thought we where in the guys bathroom because all there was, was a toliet that was in the ground..then we realized that no it was indeed the ladies bathroom and so we just did it like you would in the woods, and squated..we all decided that we are going to have very nice thigh muscles after this trip 🙂
some of the other girls mentioned that everyone yells mzungu at us. people also stop us all the time to say hi and touch us and propose to us. but we also get a lot of “OBAMA!” which is kinda cool because everyone here is really happy that obama is our president now. and so are we!
As beautiful and amazing this city is, a little bit of sadness comes along with it..often we will see people on street corners who dont have limbs, have some serious physical deformations. Aleta told us that these people had polio, and that that is the outcome of the disease. It is very crazy to us beacuse it is not something we ever had to worry about at home growing up. Also there is not alot of help and support for these individuals.
Being here in this completley different culture opens our minds to the different types of beauties, as well as hardships the people here encounter on a daily basis..it truley makes us greatful for what we all had growing up, and have now.
welll were going to catch the mutatu back to the hostel.
Talk to ya’ll soon!
PEACEPEACEYO
Sally, Kim & Carrye
