Thieving Monkeys!

Ibuto wunu aber (That is goodmorning everyone in Lango).  I had a little bit of time in between lessons today to go to the internet cafe (That is right next to my school!) so I am going to write another disorganized blog of random thoughts... haha

I am at Kajjanse secondary school, it is about a 15 minute walk from my homestay.  I am teaching chemistry and biology classes for 3 weeks to get some practice.  Learning Lango is interesting.... We have only been studying for 2 weeks and after 2 more weeks we go to something called language immersion.  Basically we go to the north and are forced to give up english, supervised though of course.  We are in class on weekdays when we arent at the the school from 8am-5pm.  But that 5pm doesn't always apply because we are in Uganda!  What I mean by that is... things start late and run over here on a regular basis.  I would actually be amazed if a non peace corps "event" started and ended within the scheduled time frame.

There is a lot I could say about this country but since I only have a little time I just want to talk about the HIV/AIDS crisis here.  Yesterday we went to TASO, which is an amazing HIV/AIDS outreach program.  They do everything from supplying ARVs to positive people and helping support their children, to traveling out to schools for free to spread awareness to youth here.  We got to listen to a testament of one of the HIV positive volunteers.   It was incredibly moving as you can imagine... but what I want to point out is that he didn't cry.  He fought SO HARD to hold back his tears.  In this culture people don't cry, it makes them uncomfortable and we all had to hold back as well because they wouldn't understand why we would be crying. It was the most moving experience I have had here so far.  The man was part of a drama group, who use song and dance to convey their messages.  I took a video of their opening performance that hopefully I will get to post up at some point.

Other then that... I am running out of internet time... I have more pictures of cute ugandan children then I can count.  We went to a zoo in Entebbe, which guess what, is just like a zoo in america except for the poor excuses for fences haha (seriously i thought an ostrich was going to run out and peck us all to death)  Lastly monkeys are like squirells here.  They roam free.  One jumped up and scared my friend leah half to death because it smelled our chocolate and then it called it's buddies over and they broke into a car (idiots left their windows open) and took all their food and belongings out.  If I get jacked by a monkey here i'm coming home lol.  I have pictures of this monkey fiasco so hopefully you get to see them soon!

Apwoyo Tutwal for reading and I know people want pictures so I will get them up as son as i can!