A Very Ugandan Thanksgiving Last night I said goodbye to my friend Jaime, who is on her way back to the States via Kampala. This morning it hit me that I have a mere 13 days left here. It has been one long, very strange trip. These past few weeks (in which I have been a huge slacker in blogging) have been filled with new friends (who I expect will become old friends), endless laughter, some very good (and some very bad) food, music, book borrowing/ consuming, countless boda rides, and general mischief. It was difficult to be away from my [View Full Entry]

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Today I saw the space left behind where Hope used to live. It was a rather large space; one that echoed with the ghosts of laughing children, plans for the future, and carefree music played in better times. She is 40 years old, her body ravaged by a cruel and merciless disease. Her skin is stretched thin over a skeletal frame that once did laundry and cooked and rocked her children to sleep. When I meet her, she is propped up between her sisters, too weak to sit up on her own. She has been like this for two weeks, her [View Full Entry]

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Blog Entry: October 28, 2009/ Nov. 2nd It’s been ages since I last wrote! Things have really picked up here at work. Lindsey and I have had the opportunity to go out into the field more and we’ve expanded our health communication project. I think one of my favorite trips was visiting the beneficiaries of TASO’s “Trickle Up” program, which funds agri-business start-ups for HIV positive patients. We met one woman who had been given money to begin selling fruit at a roadside stand. She showed us how she invested her monthly profits back into her business because o [View Full Entry]

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Blog entry: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 Hello from beautiful Mbale, Uganda! I’m still living in the same hotel we had originally checked into upon arriving from Kampala. It’s a really nice place, but I’m definitely spending waaaaay too much living here. We’ve spent most evenings after work looking at other housing options, but it’s tough-going. We’re here for such an awkward period of time (around 2 more months at this point) due to the travel delays because of the violence and then a training course in Kampala we hadn’t originally planned on attendi [View Full Entry]

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Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009 Hello from Kampala! This is my first blog entry since arriving in Uganda on Wednesday. It has been a long strange trip so far. I can hardly believe that tomorrow will mark a week since I left my apartment to serve as a Global Health Fellow in Mbale, Uganda. I’ll try to remember what’s happened up to this point and recount it as best I can: The trip from DC began on Monday night when my sister dropped me off at the airport. I wandered around at the airport (one of my favorite activities) until I found [View Full Entry]

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