I'm feeling better than I was last week - though I still needed a nap after work today. Anyway, I figured I'd share some pictures with you, because I've been pretty stingy up till now.
Here's a shot of inside our compound, standing from my front door. On the right is our avocado tree (no fruit yet, though there are some small ones); in the center and to the left you can see some banana trees (I think some of these are matooke, a cooking banana, and some are ndizi, a small sweet eating banana). Behind the bananas in the center is a mango tree which has no fruit whatsoever. But right now all the mango trees are producing and our friends in the village have loaded us down with more mangoes than we know what to do with.
There's this really nice path that leads from our door out across a ridge. It's become one of the places I go when I want to decompress and just enjoy being outside.
This path is really nice, because it's peaceful, and I get some solid nature time in. But there are also people along it, and I can have conversations with them if I want. Sometimes they'll wave me over, but I've never felt trapped, like I feared when I first got here. Usually we don't know enough to say to each other, and the conversation is pretty short. Once I ran into a group of kids who started teaching me random words in Luganda, which was pretty fun.
This walk also has fantastic views of Lake Victoria:
And to finish us off today, I offer this picture of a herd of cows that I encountered while walking around with Tyler, the other US intern. No way but to go through them, which we did.
I hope this made up some for my lack of pictures...more to come!
-David Wit
That's a great picture of a giraffe! What are all those cows... do they raise them for food or labor? They also seem to be segregated by horn... Maybe they don't dehorn their cows like we do?
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