Ugandan Rain + Technology = Lack of Updates

So, when Scott casually mentioned that it would rain maybe once a day for an hour here I thought nothing of it. However, I have since learned that April is especially wet and it has rained for half the day most of the days I am here. As a Canadian, I shouldn’t be concerned except that excess rain + dirt roads + hills = cars in the ditch and any rain + businesses = closed.

This has led the no internet. I braved the elements once and walked down the hill to the main road, soaking wet. I then proceeded to take a motorcycle to town only to find out that the internet “café” was closed. Never again. The next day I went into Kampala (the main city & capitol) with Jay Duncan only to find out the internet was so slow I couldn’t even load blogger. So, I apologize to those whom I told via email to check the site.

Here are a couple of plots thickening on my end:

The ants are taking over my residence. Every night it is an experiment/challenge to see if it is possible to not have any ants crawling around the kitchen in the morning. The one rule is that I cannot use any poison. It has been hard as any piece of bread or any drop of juice leads to hundreds of ants as the following pic attests to:




Last night I had my first mac and cheese comfort meal. I had the leftovers late and left the dish in the sink, filled with water. I thought the water in the sink along with the water in the pot would deter the ants. However, they somehow found a way down the drape, dug a couple pieces of mac out of the pot and when I woke up I found this:




The battle continues.

This afternoon I had to play the part of the excited/disappointed father for 40 orphans. It is the end of the kids first quarter of school and I thought I would watch as their report cards were handed out by Frank (a female worker here) to learn more of their names. Well, next thing I knew she decided to make all the kids, once she read out their results, bring the report to me to look at and let the child know what I thought. So, I tried the best I could to look disappointed for the kids whose marks went down since last year, excited for the kids who have done well, and encouraging to the kids who struggle. It was hard as I was trying not to laugh, especially when one of the kids would come over to me distraught, probably having just been berated for not reading English well.

I will try to post some pics of the kids next time and explain how my work is going. Off to play futball…