Hi! I'm here! Turns out that internet is pretty hard to come by, even in Jinja. I'm at an internet cafe with slow dial-up and charge by the minute, so no pictures yet.
Uganda is pretty, tropical, and fun. We train for the next three weeks or so. Right now we're staying in a "student center" (kind of like dorms) and we move to an organic farming community this weekend. There are about forty volunteers, half of which are Ugandan. The rest of us are from the US, England, Canada, Scotland, and there's a girl from Estonia. The national volunteers are great. We had to brainstorm lists of goals this morning and the Uganda guy presenting read "become less pasty" from the list and then was like, I have no idea what that means.
I love the accents, except that "guy" sounds like "gay." That's thrown me off a few times. That gay in the other room...
The food's good so far, mostly rice, potatoes, stew, corn bread. And tea between every meal.
I'm having a good time and feel fine, other than missing Tom so much I can hardly stand it. If I can get my cell phone unlocked this week I'll have a little communication relief.
More later... gotta head back for dinner!
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