Back in Namatala

Monday morning was a scramble to get all our work in, since we didn't do anything over the weekend.

It was good seeing the ladies again, and they were glad we were back and all asked about our trip, which was nice.  We have been planning lots of visits to their houses and villages, which is exciting, too.  We finally have squared away what every woman is working on (we had a few confusions along the way), and some women have even finished their products.  Now they'll be making things for us (obviously we'll still pay them, nothing for free), but at least we can make requests.

After work today, Jessica and I went to Veronica's house, which we apparently pass every day without knowing.  It's CRAZY how much she has done.  She apparently used to not be the friendliest, but has gotten nicer while working with our program and the school.  She is now a land owner and is building shops to rent out, as well as starting a new business.  She had some pretty good questions for us, like asking if she could send us products once we go back home so we could keep buying them.  We explained to her that the idea is that they will become able to support themselves within their own community, without our help, though we will keep coming to visit and work with new women to make them as successful as she is.  She also asked when we might come back, so we will not forget her.  She was so sweet and kept offering us food.  When she heard I could only eat meat that was killed in a certain way, she told me she'd bring the chicken and I could kill it myself... not quite what I meant.  I should have just stuck with saying I'm vegetarian...

When we left it looked like it was about to storm, so we hopped a boda to try to beat it.  It didn't actually end up raining by us, though we saw rain and a storm further off.

Oh, Marjani's sister, Kaliya (I might be spelling that wrong) just came to help do some film which will be fun!

Also, I forgot to mention there's a group of netball players from the UK staying here for the week who are pretty loud and obnoxious.  They smoke near our rooms, play loud music late at night... just not the biggest fan so far...

Today was another quieter day... I organized my pictures a bit since it's a ton and I'd like to be able to look through fewer... It's also raining every day now at different times, so we don't walk to and from work as much, always fearing we'll end up drenched and usually making it to shelter just in time.

I've been looking up things to do at the end of our trip, and it looks like we may do a safari!