"I eat rice, I eat beans, I eat matooke...That's it." -Jones

This morning I woke up at 5:30 in the morning (I know! So early!) and went with my friend Violah to morning prayer in the Bishop Tucker chapel. It was a really wonderful way to start the day, followed by a breakfast of tea and a banana. I miss everyone at home a whole lot, and I would love to see the snow everyone is talking about! I am finally feel almost completely adjusted to my school life here, especially since I have kind of figured out a schedule for myself. For the past couple of weeks we've been jumping around and changing places so it was hard to feel like I had a stable place to call "home" here, but now that we are back on campus its a lot more comfortable. My roommate Beth and I really hit it off, so it is nice to have a good friend here. We get to hang out with the honors college students a lot, especially since the internet only works in the lounge of the guys' dorm building (where I'm sitting right now). So it ends up being a nice hang out for everyone when we're all doing homework or facebooking (or blogging). I only have one class today, Democracy and Human Rights, so I think I'm going to walk into Mukono and finally get around to mailing some letters.

[side note: letters will always be appreciated by me, so here's my mailing address: Katy Slininger, Uganda Studies Program, Uganda Christian University, P.O. Box 4, Mukono, Uganda]

I also have to get some laundry done today. For those of you at home who do not fully appreciate your washing machine, let me describe what the process is like here in Uganda. First, you fill up two basins with water (if you are in a home, you walk to the local well, fill up jerrycans, and lug them back to pour in the basins. Thankfully we have running water on campus). You put soap in one of the basins, and scrub all of your clothes in this basin, ring it out thoroughly, then rinse it in the second basin. Dump out the water from the soapy basin and refill with fresh water, and rinse clothes for the second time. Ring out, then hang out on the line to dry. The scrubbing process is extremely damaging to our uncalloused American hands, so all of us have bloody knuckles by the end of laundry day! So, next time you throw your clothes in a machine thank God for the technology he's blessed you with!

Let me know if you have any specific questions about life here. Its hard to pick out certain things to write about, so I would love to answer questions!