Is it really friday tomorrow?? where has this week gone? gotten a decent amount of work done on my evaluation report, but still got a bit to go. No power is hard. Spent monday in the coffee hut with the millions of white people in gulu doing work because there was no power at home. Was a bit odd to be around so many muzungu, wasnt a huge fan but the mango smoothie and sausages were nice! i also went by to see the beaders monday afternoon and was surprised to see another white girl there, apparently she also buys from them. She works for a US NGO who deals exclusively in beads. and i thought they had no market....
Talked to Hope about it and she told me that the group in town has many markets, its the group out at Agonga in the village that has no market. The group kinda is all one, but not really. This is a shame because I really like Sarah, but Id also like to support them women who really need it. But ive already ordered with Sarah so I need to follow through. maybe if the bead store comes through I can get those from Agonga. In the end, the clinic gets 10% of the sales regardless of where they are made, so that at least is good.
Tuesday Hope arrived to Gulu with a brand new copy machine that was donated to the NGO. This will be really nice to have and can also generate some income for the NGO. i also learned tuesday that in partnership with Heifer International, the NGO would close the partnership with a big event where 15 calves would be passed, um the next day! hello short notice! I didnt have to do anything for the event other than be present, so that was good.
So wednesday, out we went, on ugandan time of course, and i was given a sweet Heifer t-shirt that has acholi writing on the back that im stoked about and got to help present the cows... which actually was highly humorous since ive never been around a cow and i was a bit nervous and it chased me a bit. needless to say everyone laughed. there was also traditional dancing, which was pretty cool and then hellen made me dance when they did the courtship dance for our age group. again, everyone laughed at the mono dancing! but it was fun. The girls dance in one line and the boys play calabash bowls and when the girl sees a boy playing well she dances towards him then he stops playing and dances with her. or she sees one she likes... it was pretty cool to see a lil traditional saturday night village activity. all in all a fun day!
today i didnt feel great and took it easy. went into the clinic for a few hours but didnt find hellen there and did just a spot of work before coming home. martha soon came home since there was no power an she couldnt do any work and so we hung out for the afternoon. was good.
this weekend i might go to kampala with martha but might stay here, cant decide what i want to do.
all in all things are well. going tomorrow to upload photos and will get a big photo montage up then!