Travel

Break is over and its back to school for us. Its pretty weird being back at site after spending almost a month with fellow americans. I was getting used to the company and not just that but the food. I gained a good 10 pounds being away from site eating like an american again and I dont have much of an appetite for posho and beans anymore. Teachers have been striking or threatening to strike country wide because they get shit for pay but as a result parents havent been sending there kids to school this term. So out of 800 students 239 have reported, and things are moving pretty slowly. I picked up a couple PE classes this term and was having fun teaching capture the flag to my students. Their former teacher was watching and decided that the girls probably should just watch, and that what the students really needed was a lecture on capture the flag strategy. I'm also going to be teaching computers this term, after I teach Word and Excel im thinking about putting Plants Vs Zombies on the school computers so the students can, um, increase their mouse skills and practice strategic thinking and number sense.... But really, these kids are bored and need something to do besides study and play sex. I'm bringing in more frisbees and saving up bottle caps so they can play mastermind so if nothing else hopefully I can relieve some of that boredom.

It was raining pretty heavily on the trip back and Mike, ever resourceful, was unlucky enough to get a seat with a leaky window.

On our way back through Kampala we stopped to get Ethiopean food. To get there you have to go through a brothel and up a few flights of stairs with questionable structural integrity to get to the restaruant which doubles as this woman's living room. The location has been passed down through the peace corps generations, and for good reason, the food was amazing.

Even evil-beast-crabs need a kissevery once and a while