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September 12, 2007

Nibanyeta Jen. Ninduga NY omuri America. Kwonka hati, ninntuura (…) omuri Uganda. Nyine emyaka babiri n'itaano. Ninkunda kurya na kubyama. Tinkukunda kwega.

I'm supposed to be studying for my first mock LPI that's tomorrow afternoon. But, instead, I'm being a master procrastinator and typing up this post. J At least I have the key phrase down: "Tinkumanya."= "I don't know." hehe Oh, and "Garukamu, mpora mpora". That's important too. "Repeat, slowly." With those two phrases, you can't go wrong!

Mosquitoes
I have been a mosquito magnet all my life. Whenever I went back to Taiwan, I'd come home with a minimum of 12 mosquito bites. My mom, on the other hand, would only come back with about a handful. (Maybe that's why she always brought me with her…?) She said it was b/c I was so sweet. Riiight. We all know that's a bunch of bull. As I'm sitting on my bed, inside my mosquito net, I've come to a brilliant conclusion. I've decided that the mosquito net does NOT help if you've trapped a mosquito in it with you. I'm good, aren't I? Told you. I could've/should've been a Fulbright Scholar, damn it. (That'll be my next venture. Just you wait and see.) My problem now is-how do I get it out without letting another one in? oh well. Good thing I'm still taking my Mefloquine. Sadly, no vivid dreams yet. Good thing-no insomnia. And, of course, no malaria. Although, Anni thinks I might have Giardia. But it's not likely. Thank God for that. I've run out of chocolate. (Giardia meds makes everything taste metallic.)


September 16, 2007

Pretty good week all around! I passed my LPI, received mail, went to K'la, annnnd…I found out my site!

Pig on the Road
On the way back from K'la, we witnessed something fall off the back of an open truck, traveling in the opposite direction. What I originally thought was a sack of grains or some such thing ended up being a pig, whose legs were tied together. The poor thing was squealing its head off, while the owners tried to move it back onto the truck. I have to give the pig credit; even after falling off the truck at a high speed, knocking its head on the ground, and rolling around a bit, it still put up quite the fight! According to my friend, that pig will be all the more juicy/tender after having bounced off the ground. Nice.

Future Site
Not a lot of details to give (for security reasons). I can say that I will be living in the Mbarara District for the next two years, working in a hospital. And I'm super-psyched for my assignment! Mbarara is the second largest city in Uganda, kind of like a mini K'la.