while you are sleeping....

Hello everyone,
mullymota? (how are you??)
well, while you are sleeping, i am sitting in Masindi writing you to tell you what i have been up to. Sleeping is definatly not one of those things. However, we have been having a lot of fun in the mean time.

Today-Saturday- we are taking the day to do what we want which has included this:
-sleep in until 8
-walk to town (1 hour)
-stopped on the way to have casava with some of the Ugandan Defense army personal
-Jess sent some postcards (let's hope they make it...haha)
-get an cold fanta
-get some more air time for our phone....yes calling Canada from here is not cheap
-stop at Traveller's corner-where we are now
-then we are doing some exploring in town and going to Christine's house for lunch.
-hopefully get to bed before 1 o'clock in the morning.....

I am very glad that i brought along a deck of cards and got a deck of uno cars-Thanks mom!!!- because card playing is the new favourite past time here. All of our neighbours have been teaching us games, and us them. 2 of the older boys- Brian and Nicolas have really enjoyed joining us after dinner (so around 9 or 10) and we play and talk for a long time. This is wonderful, but we will have to work out something different for when we start going to the school all the time

yesterday we went to school for the morning and each of us got to sit in with different classes and watch....and be watched...haha. The older students don't have trouble understanding us as much, but the younger ones do. after sitting in 4 classes, it was lunch time and we went home-with about 10 kids going with us...they ended up staying because they wanted to see our house and they sang for us and we taught them stella-ella-olla (a clapping game) and thumb wars which they loved. We also taught them the macarana (sp?) and then played outside for a bit. They had to leave then because they were already late, and made us promise to come back on Monday.

we spent the rest of the day resting, going for walk, watching and learning how to cook with a coal stove and trying maize corn cooked on the stove-which was very good. :) We also had millit for dinner-jessica's request- with peas, carrotts and maize corn. I can not say that I enjoyed the milit all that much, but jess really likes it. It is a purple, gummy like substance with no flavor, but you eat it with your hands and shape it- it shapes like playdo- and use it to eat the other things on your plate, and then you start to chew, and chew for a very long time...haha.

even though talking early into the morning has been tiring, it has also been a lot of fun. It is nice to be able to ask questions and learn more about Uganda and the culture here, and they all enjoy asking us questions as well about Canada and love looking at our pictures of snow and can not believe it is-as Jess describes it- as cold as if you were living in the freezer. Many of those we have met have expressed an interest in coming to Canada, but do not think they can survive the winter, nor do they understand why we go outside when it snows and we do not just stay in.

well thats about all for now; we're off to do some shopping/exploring....i hope i can hear from you all; i would love to know how you are doing and what is new with you/new in canada.
miss you all!!
bye