1. The internet is down for two days. Why? Because the cell tower (which we can see from our mission) ran out of fuel to power the generator (because there's no electricity here) -- this fuel shortage happens at precisely the same time each month, by the way -- and the truck carrying the fuel up from Mbale is completely stuck in the mud over an hour away.
2. You see an ant in your food, you scoop it out with a spoon, and you keep on eating.
3. Rose comes to the door. "Hemly! I have a jigger just here... do you have something?" Erika immediately responds "on the desk!" Yes. We keep a safety pin readily accessible solely for the purpose of digging bugs out of hands and feet. (Thankfully Erika and I haven't had any jiggers yet, but Erika did have to have a guard, Sam, dig a thorn out of her foot. He's apparently the BEST... he's so careful you don't feel a thing).
4. You're really not all that surprised to walk into lunch one day and see a dead Green Night Adder in a cardboard box on display. I was, however, less than thrilled to learn that it had been killed just outside my banda. Papa Lokwii, the one who killed our cobra, came to the rescue again!
5. You can't tell someone their baby is beautiful, because they think evil spirits will ruin the child if you say that. So if you tell a mother that her baby is beautiful, she will just laugh nervously and try to get away from you.
6. Owls are wizards. Chameleons are demon-possessed.
7. You're walking to the clinic and you reach the culvert (small river) where several people are bathing. Yes, they are naked (could be men, women or children). And yes, they would like to greet you, talk to you, and even help you practice your Karamojong phrases... right there knee deep in the river.
8. You wake up to beautiful mountain views every day... and every evening the sunset looks like a spread out of National Geographic.
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