Life seems rather relaxing as I sip on my African tea (milk brewed with tea leaves and spiced with pepper, cinnamon, and ginger) and watch the sun set over the west end of Jinja. I’ve found that two crowds populate flavour’s coffee house during happy hour; there’s the silent crowd individually working on their laptops and then theres the groups of tourists passing through. For the most part I’ve seen that those that come here to use the internet are with the NGO crowd, I’ve met quite a few Peace Corps volunteers here as well.
I figured that I’d throw one of my fun photos from this last weekend, the above image is myself, and the other three volunteers that live on Lingira. We decided that it would be fun to have movie nights while I was there, though I should mention I failed in my assignment to get a variety of movies. We ended up watching two of the star wars movies this weekend, we always hope for sun during the day so I can charge my laptop in the solar outlets. On the way back from our work we managed to find some soda in the village of Choya and the girl pictured front right (Amanda) has wonderful skills at making popcorn.
The other two individuals behind (Left, Kelsi and Michelle, Right), are the only remaining members of the EDGE project left in Uganda. The other nine of the original eleven members that arrived in Uganda in mid-July have all returned to the United States. I’ve found that it’s important to maintain friendships with other Muzungus here, it helps to be able to converse with other Americans every once in awhile. So far I haven’t met anyone that’s staying past mid-October so it could get a little lonely around here right before I leave.
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