day 5

welcome to jinja main:



today is sunday - the day of rest. I slept 12 hours and walked into jinja main to go to the internet cafe, flavours, which is where i am now.

yesterday was my first day of Suubi, and it was crazy but good. my job was to make sure the clasps work, and it was pretty easy and went well.

we also did acholi dancing yesterday both before and after suubi so maybe a good solid 3 or 4 hours of dancing like chickens, shaking our hips, and moving our feet ridiculously fast. I only watched the first time, but tried the dances the second time in the far back. It's like the whole village is surrounding the dancers, all of Danita watching and laughing as we muzungu (white people) people try to dance. One woman came and pulled me to the very front by the drums and gourds and made me do the butt shake from side to side. we definitely caught it on video and the women were hysterical. jaja margaret, or just jaja as we call her (jaja means grandmother) ran up and hugged me. She speaks very little english but probably one of the most expressive women out of the bunch, and most outspoken.

Our feet by the end of the day, kicking up all of the dirt, were red black from the ground. we were absolutely disgusting and all showered immediately when we got home.

although probably the best part of the day was getting home. Our van likes to hoot its horn randomly and was full on honking in varying decibels half of the way home. everyone was pointing, staring, laughing and shaking their heads at us. Crazy Muzungoos!

Betty surprised us with dinner when we got home, which was fantastic, my favorite part was the mashed matoke, and eggplant. I'm probably in love with the eggplant here. who knew i liked it so much.

OH speaking of food. omg, people set up stands all down main street and make rolex - which is probably the best thing ever. They're only 800 shillings (about 90 cents) and what they do is fry up egg and vegetables (generally cabbage, tomato, onion, & carrot, which if you have vegetables like avacado on you they will add it) and put it on top of this fried flat bread stuff - i do not remember the name of them right now - and then roll it up. they're great. they're cheap. they're fattening. they're the mcdonalds of uganda.