Final Stretch of USP

I'm filling out my timesheet for practicum and I have thirty hours left- on day one the goal of four hundred hours seemed insane. I'm looking at my calendar and realizing that I have my capstone, my end of semester paper, due in a week. I'm also realizing that my classmates have less than a month before they fly home to the United States. Huge shout out to my dad for coming and giving me extra time!

 My class schedule was a bit strange this week: on Monday I did not go to my internship site. Instead we had a social work class where we learned about the enneagram. This meant that I was done at 4 instead of 5:30. This does not sound like a super big deal, but when you have a curfew of seven, that extra hour and a half is really nice. I spent the afternoon with my friend where we found a place that sold milkshakes. The amount of syrup that they put in there is like a child's dream come true. It was a good way to spend the afternoon. Since we had extra time, we went to see if we could find some fabric to have my graduation dress made. (I'm arriving basically two full days before graduation and won't have time and/or energy for shopping). In Uganda, you can get clothes tailored to you. I didn't find the fabric that I wanted for my graduation dress, but I did find fabric for a skirt. I'm super excited that I get a skirt long enough, that has pockets and I paid only 30,000 shillings for. That's like $8.50.

The rest of the week was fun at my internship. I got to spend a lot of time with the jjajja's and they are the sweetest people ever. I'm forever amazed that when they start singing praise songs most of them get up and dance. Some of them need canes to get up, but that doesn't stop them from really praising the Lord.

Yesterday, I didn't have social work classes at 9:00 since we had class on Monday. This meant that I didn't have class until 3:30! I spent the morning sleeping in. I'm pretty sure that's the first time I've done that since I've been here. I got a call from Alex at like 10:30 asking if I was busy today. He asked me to bring my camera and help him because he just got hired to take photos at this entrepreneur "fair." So I spent the afternoon being a "professional photographer."  They gave me lunch which was way better than food I would get at the DH. I also got to learn a lot about what starting a business means here in Uganda. There were so many ideas and business types. I had to leave early for class, so I missed a large portion of the presentations, but it was a good day anyway.

I don't think I have anything else interesting to add, besides it's 26 days until my dad comes! We're going to have so much fun.