First Impressions

So I have now been to Igangatown, Ibulanku, and my parish of Kalalu, getting more and more rustic with each destination.

Igangatown: Where I will be traveling to for weekly coordinators meetings, as well as to buy house and project supplies/big groceries and use the internet. However, to get to this location from my village will be around a 2-2.5 hour journey filled with matatus (vans) and mboda bodas (motorbikes). Did I mention the 2-2.5 hour journey is only about 10 miles??? Such is life in Africa.

Ibulanku: This is the town where I have been staying since I've arrived in the district of Iganga (3 hour matatu ride southeast of Kampala). Jonathan and I have been living it up in quite the mansion near the Ibulanku Health Care Center, where Jonathan will be working since he is the health care project coordinator. The house has nice rooms and bathrooms, a refrigerator (!!!), and a dining room and lounge area with leather couches (!!!). The only thing really of difference between this house and a house from home is that you have to collect your water for washing/cooking/flushing the toilet from the borehole about 50m outside of the house. Every time we go there to fill up our jerrycans, it is quite the scene. The children already there to collect water from their families will stop what they're doing and come running at us mzungus. I have a video of this, it's pretty funny.

Ibulanku Health Care Center: Yesterday we took a tour of the Center; it is a grade 3. The biggest hospital health center (ex. Kampala Hospital) is a grade 6; grade 5 is any complex with surgical capabilities; grade 4 is the best you would get in a village. Jonathan's workplace is grade 3. The pediatric ward is right by the "reception desk" and consists of four cribs. Women and children were laying on the floor... The women's ward was a room with about six gurnies; men's ward was similar.

***(If this post stops abruptly, or any other post for that matter, it's because power went out or a virus took over the computer; I will continue later on or just give up on blogging...)***