hola

greetings from jinja. so. i was supposed to go to gulu today, but i was put off by daisy (my guide) until tomorrow. this is after i thought i was ditched by joyce last month. but joyce came to the meeting yesterday and was very sad and apologetic. when i finally got the story from her, it was that her brother had to have stomach surgery in kampala, so she's been there for the past 3 weeks. her family in pader is mad at her because she promised to go and bring money, but she's spent all of her money helping her brother in kampala. she apologized for not being able to bring me to her home. i apologized for thinking that she ditched me on purpose. we were very sad together, me for thinking that she ditched me, her for not being able to take me.

then i remembered that i brought the computer and photos of the ladies taken by dan and katie. we all enjoyed watching a slideshow of the ladies and listening to kanye. then we watched acholi and luo music videos by bosmic otim and others. we had a great time. they laughed and sang along to the videos. i sat behind the computer laughing at them enjoying the videos. i'm not sure who had more fun.

so hopefully, i will travel north of jinja some time this week. if it doesn't happen by wednesday with daisy, i'll have to take matters into my own hands.

next saturday will be my last meeting. sad sad. truthfully, going back to work in alaska is not on the top of my "things i really really want to do in the month of march" list, but it has to be done. hopefully there is still fish in my freezer and wood in the shed. sitting in the warm cabin eating salmon is not so bad really. i had a dream about skiing.

that's all for now...