Randomness Time

My time here at URF is winding down, I've meant to add so much more to this blog, but each time I get ready to work on it, the internet seems to be down or occupied or too slow...Oh well.
Here's some of the stuff that's happened in the last few weeks:
- I ate my first salad since I've been here, my first veggies really
- I had a bagel and milkshake in Kampala, deliciously awesome
- I went dancing at a nightclub (is Ali really writing this blog?) The most entertaining part of the night was watching the Ugandans watching themselves dance in the mirrors lining one wall.
- We constructed a raised bed veggie garden at one of our student's houses. It has yet to be planted, but that should happen next week sometime
- I've been teaching English and Computer during the Holiday After-School Program. Both are frustratingly difficult to teach due to lack of resources and crappy computers. I tell myself that any time that the kids get to use a computer will be helpful to them in the long run, the nearest computers outside of our school are an hour's drive away, not doable for the vast majority of kids here.
- I've been painting the school "library." It's been my pet project and is almost finished.
- Engineers Without Borders has hired a company to drill a borehole next to the school. Once complete, water will be pumped directly inside from it and possibly come out of a tap. Right now there is a large rainwater catchment system in place.
- The workmen from the drilling company have been told to sleep in the library, thereby halting all of my work there.
- I got a package from Jeffrey stuffed with Swedish Fish, candy bars, tea, etc. It only took 2 months to get here.
- Biting safari ants took over the house for a couple of days, marching in a thick line through the living room and hallway. We dealt with them by flicking paraffin all over the floor and rug with an old broom. Not what I would have done, but I've very little safari ant experience.
- A feisty chicken took to entering the house whenever possible. She was discovered in Scott's room and proceeded to scwak and flap around in there for a while. We named her Aida and she continues to cluck through the house sometimes.

That's a random assortment of what's been happening here. I'm sorry it's not more exciting. And that there are no pictures. They take quite a long time.