where power is a luxury and pig killing is a good time...

Hello again everyone,

so life in uganda just gets better and better all the time. its been a while since i've written, and i'm not going to lie, i can't remember it all, however i'm going to do my best to fill you in on some details.

first of all, the title is no exaggeration. Power here is a luxury, one that is often taken away at the most inconvenient of times.....like when its dark at night...and dark in the morning....basically during all times of darkness. So our 'torches' as they call them here in Uganda, are often put to good use. And the pig killing....pigs can be cute....pigs are delicious....pigs are loud when you cut off their heads....now to clarify..i was not the one cutting the head off, merely and observer, however it was very cool to watch...as I so often find myself saying 'we don't do that in Canada'

Life at school is good...we are officially in routine now, we teach all but P1-and that is a blessing I will explain at a later time...and we teach P.E.d, religion, music, and English. The children especially love P.E-and Jess and I are definatly building up some muscles...haha...unfortunately to add to that, we are both sick at the moment. Because the weather here changes so much from hot to cold....in about 10 minutes you get from freezing with a sweater on to boiling and wishing for a pool to jump into....but we are still going...so far nothings kept us down yet.

This past weekend we went to an introduction...a ceremony where the woman introduces a man to her family and tons of people come and eat tons of food...not like we don't eat enough anyways...and they basically pay the dowry. This is a very important ceremony because it results -usually-in the parents giving permission to wed....then the wedding can happen whenever they want ,but the wedding is much smaller than the introduction...its all about the introduction. Apparently its also quite the honour to have a white person at this occasion as we were given seats beside the 'bride-to-be''s father and have about a million pictures taken of us...luckily we knew the father, he had helped us when we first came, so it was nice to be near him. we took about a million pictures of this event so we can show you all when we get back.

To get to this event we rode in true african style...the way there there was about 15 people in our 7 person jeep...and they way back we road in the back of a pickup....which hurts more with the bumps...haha....

we also got to meet with a few women's groups in the area on sunday, which was pretty awesome. they are looking forward to the possibility of being able to partner with you at home...these women are amazing and have some really great stories to tell..

however, i've run out of time and must go...but i hope you are all well and not roasting in Canada with all the heat :)
love you all
Tash