So after swearing in on April 21st... which I am proud to say all 44 of us made it to... we all left the comfort of what felt like summer camp and moved to site. I was one of the lucky ones that got to take public transit! horray for me though all my shit made it to the north! There was a nasty flood though that held us up getting out of Kampala and the trip took about 6 hours. So the fun part was realizing my house is not ready! I'm not the only one though. My friend Rachel has to squat at a volunteers house for a few weeks and there are others in my group hanging in limbo like us as well.
On Easter Sunday I went to visit Rachel's squatting grounds, aka Burnadette's house! Another volunteer Heather who stays in Kitgum was also down and she made a pretty awesome dinner. Burnadette's house is super cute and is only a 30 minute drive away from town, and I met her counterpart who has the coolest name ever.... FRESHER! She is as sweet as her name is. For payment in staying the night we went to collect water for her at the borehole. That was an EPIC FAIL! I don't know how she does that on her own... balancing those 2 huge jerrycans on her bike alone... rachel and I could barely get them back without the bike toppling on one of us and we were a fun spectacle for the village to have a good laugh at! But I digress.... we are laughed at all the time but at least we weren't alone! So I tried to upload a total of 6 photos but it is taking tooooo damn long so only these 2 finished. If you want to see photos, again refer to facebook they upload 1000X faster! Should be putting more up this week from swearing in week and my new house!
The house where we had our swearing in ceremony, seriously nice digs... I am now considering a career in Foreign Service
Just a silly picture of some Lango girls pretending to be models, which to us I guess means eating our fingers or looking spaced out... I love us!