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I've decided to just try and wrap up two weeks into one blog entry. I just continually get behind on this. I'm still alive though. After my Kenya trip it was back to work. I did a session that day. I continued teaching how to do word. I was now doing sessions at 3 different universities so I was pretty busy. Also we were going out most nights since many of the inters were coming to the end of their stays. I just got into a normal routine of planning the sessions and lecturing so there wasn't too much to write about until I got to the internet. They are very insistent that I teach people how to use the internet. To me the internet wasn't something that you needed to teach people. It was just ... read more

So we all woke up at 5:45am so that we could eat breakfast at 6am and then be in the car and leave for the park around 6:30am. If you don't make it in time for breakfast than too bad. We made this pretty clear the night before that we meant the times and we weren't running on Africa time (which can give you a leeway of probably 2 hours). I slept in my clothes because it was pretty chilly. When my alarm went off I popped out of bed and got ready for breakfast. I may not always be a morning person but when it comes to traveling I have no issue waking up early. (If you've ever gone on a road trip with me then you know I like to start early. 4am is ... read more

It was Sunday night since the bombings had occurred. There is still lots of traffic downtown and it looks as though people have continued on with their lives. Although now new security measures have definitely been taken into action. At one of the grocery stores that I go to they now search every car entering the parking lot and everyone who enters the store gets screened. Most buildings have at least a security guard standing outside now. It's a bit of a pain sometimes because you have to wait a bit longer. It also changed the mentality of the area. One of the bombs on Sunday was in a popular Ethiopian restaurant. We went out for dinner on Monday night to an Italian restaurant near our hostel. I have to admit that I felt pretty uncomfortable ... read more

Tuesday I didn't do too much with my day or I can't remember doing that much. I probably did laundry and tried to catch up on my blog and reading before watching some soccer. I did take a picture of something very common here. It may not look like much but in one of the pictures you will see a small fire. Since there aren't garbage trucks in many of the areas, a way to get rid of the trash is to make a pile and burn it. This is small example but there are more larger "dumping" areas that will be garbage one day and ash the next. There is always a faint smell of smoke in the air. Sometimes it's more than a faint smell when the fire is near the hostel. It's one ... read more

I today I met up with Thanasis and Rachel to hop on a taxi and go to the town of Jinja. Jinja is a small town about 1.5-2 hours away from Kampala along Lake Victoria where they say the Nile River starts. Most of the interns had already been there when they went white water rafting so we thought that we should just go on our own and see it. We went to the taxi park and finally found one that was leaving for Jinja. It was a little bit harder bargaining for such a large distance. After a while the lowest price that they would finally accept was 4,000 shillings. We got on the taxi and headed out. In the beginning there were only a couple of us in the taxi so I was able ... read more