Loose on the Town

First the very exciting news: I know where my internship is! I will be doing my internship with ROTOM (Reach One, Touch One Ministries). It is a program for assisting the elderly people and their grandchildren. It is connected to a clinic, a day care and apparently an old lady dance party once a month.

In case you want to learn more: http://reachone-touchone.org/ug

This morning I went to church. They have a church on campus that starts at 8:30. We started singing Oceans. It was incredibly beautiful and just what I needed to hear. They really know how to worship here, if you are ever awake at 11 on Saturday I believe they live stream the service. Church was done at around 10:30, just in time for tea. After tea we decided to go up monkey hill again. It was just as beautiful the second time. We got to see some of the locals around the hill this time around.  They laughed as we took our pictures in front of the scenic view. One of my new friends, Kate, is a photographer and she had us each take really fun photos. I'll share it as soon as I get it back.

Today, we got to go explore the town. I am very obviously a Mzungu (a white person) and small children would point, dance and smile.  We quickly made friends with a UCU students who showed us the ropes. We were going to ask random people on the street where to buy items or how to say words in Luganda, but they took our paper and led the way fearlessly. I am so thankful for Freddie and Amon. They helped us learn traffic rules (aka the basic of how to cross a street, hint: find a Ugandan). They taught us where to buy Mango and that is it called Muyembe. In case you were wondering I bought 3 of them for 2,000 Ugandan Shillings. I'm so excited to eat them, I learned from a different friend that you can actually eat the mango skin...but we will see if I chose to do that or to buy a knife.  We then went to the hotel in Mukono and I had a Mountain Dew. It does not taste quite like the American version, but it was refreshing after the heat. The heat is very direct sunlight, so despite the sunscreen I am now sporting my first sunburn of many I am sure.

On the way back from the hotel, my friends and I decide to stop for Rolex. Rolex is egg omelet deep fat fried with Ugandan tortilla chapati. They make it fresh in front of you and give it to you in a plastic of sorts. It was so hot, I held on to the plastic which opened and I accidentally dropped it on the ground. It was very disappointing and despite all the health warns I received before leaving I was really tempted to eat it anyway. Luckily a friend was nice and shared some. 10/10 would recommend.