Last Weekend in Uganda (As a USP student)

I am done with my internship- I ended with 409 hours. I learned so much through being here. I learned how to practice with clients through a translator, how to be okay with silence, how to connect with coworkers that are so very different from me, how to ask a million questions and still prove you are a competent social worker,  about power dynamics (being educated, white, a social worker) and how to try to balance the power I do have.  I also got to experience chickens sitting inside clients houses (I only got pecked once), dance parties with jjajja's, making a fool out of myself and being okay with it (I'm talking about the dance parties) and making relationships.

I finished all of my classes here at UCU, the only thing that I have left for my undergrad is a case study paper and presentation on Tuesday. It's super said to realize that my time is almost done. This week, I'm turning all of my stuff in and getting ready for our trip in Rwanda. We will be watching some educational movies and having orientation to prepare for it. We leave on Friday.

This past weekend, on Saturday I got to go to Kampala and do some last minute shopping with a good friend of mine. We took a taxi and accidentally got off on the wrong stop. Thankfully, Ugandan's are more than willing to give directions. We made it to craft Africa safe and sound. We were extremely impressive, we got all of our last minute shopping for people done and left in like two hours. We then went to Lugogo, which is a shopping mall. We went to a big super market than tends to have some American food and we found some American candy bars. We then stopped at Cafe Java's. It's a chain that I've mentioned before that has "white people" food (Ugandan's words, not mine). We treated ourselves to chicken alfredo and iced coffee. We got back at a decent time so I went home.

Alex taught me to make chapati, it's actually much easier than I thought. It's basically flour, water, salt and oil. You can add veggies in the mix: we added onions, peppers and carrots. It was super fun and I'm excited to make them at home for people to try. I stayed overnight and then went to church in the morning. After church, we were getting ready for the farewell dinner. There's going to be 300 some people there and my family is cooking for them. It's basically a way to say goodbye to our host families and people from our internships. So on Sunday, I helped dry plates and some 300 forks.

I did some planning for when my dad comes, we are going to have a full week! One of my favorite parts, is that ROTOM upon hearing my dad is coming offered to take him to a fellowship so he can actually experience what my internship was like. I originally was hesitant as I did not want to get in the way of the work that they are doing, but everyone was so excited! It will be a really fun time!