I LOVE LUGAZI!

Hello all! africa is so awesome!! i have so much to tell you about. we moved to lugazi saturday morning after the rest of our team arrived. it is so beautiful. uganda is seriously the greenest place i've ever seen. it rains every day here but we love it because it cools everything down and cleans us off a little. so we live in the city lugazi and our little town is nacazade. we live right in the heart of an african neighborhood. i love it. it's less busy than mukono, definitely. so saturday we spent the majority of the day scrubbing down the entire house so we could move in. the construction workers were supposed to have it done, but didn't. it was hard work, we made it look so much better! my favorite part was having to guide a river of nasty water through the hallways and out our back door! so funny. the house has a fence and our guard has a large gun. his name is morris and he is a stud. he takes really good care of us. our cook's name is rose and she is fantastic! we had our first ugandan feast, literally a feast, and we loved it. haha, she even killed our pet chickens for dinner. yum yum! i actually felt a little sad for them. luckily i didn't see them killed. so we had matoke, wish is basically the ugandan staple food eaten with every meal. not too bad! kind of like thick mashed potatoes. posho is strange, it's the consistency of play doh and has absolutely no flavor. rose also made us beans, peas, g-nut sauce which is like peanut butter, and delicious fruit! ugandans only eat dinner so that has been taking some getting used to. we just have fruit and a granola bar for breakfast and then come back at night for dinner.
the power has gone off multiple times already, as well as the water supply. haha it's been adventurous. me megan and kyle had to use a bucket last night to 'relieve ourselves' if you will. it was awesome. very african!
yesterday we went to church in jinja and it was amazing!! so cool. we'll be going to that branch which is about 30 minutes driving away. me and a few girls went to the young womans class and we talked about family history. unlike any lesson i've ever had before! we talked about the importance of knowing what clan you are in and your exact birthdate so you can keep a record. also, so whne you start dating someone, you can make sure they aren't your brother! a little different than here in the states. we're going to be teaching that class for the rest of the summer though! i'm so excited!
today we went and learned how to build adobe stoves and even made one ourselves! we got really messy! you have to stomp the clay and it is really thick and pasty. then you layer bricks over mortar and use a banana stalk to carve out a place for the smoke to go out. it was awesome talking to the various people about the stoves they already had from last year. it helps them so much! they don't breathe in the smoke, so it is way healthier for the women. it saves them hours and hours of food preparation as well. they can spend this saved time in their garden or working at their businesses. so this provides additional income. it's awesome!
so everytime we walk down the streets it is a parade of screaming children. they sing muzungu mzungu and it is the cutest thing ever. ah!
i am so happy to be here. i don't think i've ever been so happy. the people are welcoming and loving. i want to do so much for them, and it is ahrd to see the poverty they live in. they have so little, yet they smile and have so much joy. it's amazing. i can't wait to tell you more about my adventures but for now, goodbye!