1) My boda driver agrees to a set price to the location and then upon arrival he tries to squeeze more money out of me..haha...do you think I really did??!? I'm Dutch people...if I agree to a price, that's what I pay...but I definitely give him props for trying to get it out of me...
2) I meet with market ladies in my most recent project of a " savings and credit cooperative". I strike up a personal conversation with them and Christine, one of the market vendors, offers to give me her daughter to take back to Canada. And then I joke with them that I will marry a African man and have six African children...don't you think that is enough already??? They thought it was pretty comical..
3) I have a interesting conversation with another boda driver on my way to another location about how I look too young and he is surprised that I do not have children yet. Let's just say that they put a lot of value on having children here, and at a young age. I just laugh, tell him that I will have children soon ( as in like 5 years, but he doesn't know that), because what else do you do?
4) I meet with my Ugandan friend Irene and together we work on a recent and huge undertaking- a center for SCI ( Spinal Cord Injury) Patients. We sit around a table and enjoy delicious capaties....( kind of like a tortilla, but much better).
5) On our way home, we are yelled at by people saying ,"Muzugu" ( white person) and are nearly hit by crazy Matatu drivers who have no respect for pedestrians, even foreign ones.
6) Upon arrival to my home here, I crash into bed and realize that I may potentially have the flu.......
All in a Day's work eh???
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