a week gone by

So this is the first entry written after setting up the blog and i definitely didn't expect it to take this long. Most of that is just being exhausted whenever we get home and wanting to just chill. A large part of that is all the talking and conversing that we have done sitting out in the porch at night. The conversations we have had have really been awesome and insightful and it makes you not want to leave them and thus not much writing gets done. That and to be honest I've gotten wrapped up in a few lengthy internet chats now that we have the internet which i explain everything thats been happening and I forget that not everyone is reading those and I need to post it here to. Its been a week since the last post was written and most of our time has been spent in the villages talking to all of the people who live a very different life than those in the town that we interact with on a more daily basis. We learned a lot about how people operate and how some of the loaning models work out here which was very informative. The biggest bummer of the week was going to a market day in a village a little more than an hour away and hoping to get some really cool local garb and everything there was cheap imported crud that wasn't African and had no use to us or even a use in the lives of people who were suppose to buy them. Some people surly bought them just to have something from the modern west which is sad since it was even a waste of money to them and it wasn't even quality stuff. That day however we did hike a giant rock that gave us a great view of the village and the market and Doug and I were able to sit and take in the view and contemplate life and quote “Just Friends” which are all the things that needed to be done at that moment. The fourth was spent at a house a few streets over where a few other Americans and two Brits gathered for a bbq which was awesome because we actually had french fries and chili which was just amazingly American. One of the funniest parts of that night was finding out that one of the people who was there was a Bellarmine Bell...you go half a world away and you can't escape the rivalry. Yesterday we went to a pool in Gulu about an hour and a half away and Brian and Doug and i swam and taught a guy how to dive and got some sun and it was an extremely relaxing day. Driving back from that we ran into a huge thunderstorm which started out with heat lightening that just lit up the horrizon every few seconds. Then it got dark and the rain came and between potholes and foolish people walking down the middle of the raid is was a crazy stretch. We did make it back and today was spent just doing some reading and prep work for the week ahead and that is about to get started as soon as i wake up. Hope all of your week went well and hopefully this will get updated again soon.