Welaba

So this is my last night in Uganda. We're leaving tomorrow night so I guess this will be my last post. I'm not gonna bore you with a post when I get home cuz let's be honest that would be super lame. So thanks for reading all summer. Hope I didn't bore you too much.

• All summer the kids have been begging me to set up a match against one of the other primary schools in the next village. So after pressuring the headmaster for a while it finally happened the last week. It was hysterical. For some reason they had me be the coach to train them leading up to the game. And then at the game all the teachers at both schools were too lazy so they had me ref the match. Basically we crushed them, it was awesome. The final score was 3-1 because I felt bad for the other team and gave them a penalty kick they didn't deserve. I'll let you decide if my coaching abilities had anything to do with their victory. Oh and the best part of it is how they treat the kids like racehorses at half time. They feed them pure glucose powder and rub turpentine on their legs... Hey anything to win right?
• The goodbye celebration they had for me was pretty adorable. Each class rehearsed a song to sing for me and some kids made speeches. Girls were even crying while they were singing goodbye which was pretty sad. Apparently I was an alright teacher. I'm gonna miss those kids.
• For my last day we also had a faculty-student football game. which was hysterical. Have you ever playyed football with a nun still wearing her habit? Cuz it's awesome.
• On our last weekend David, Mick and I went to Queen Elizabeth national park to see some animals. We saw lions and hippos (which are awesome by the way) and all kinds of stuff but the best part was definitly one elephant that really wanted to show off. We were taking a boat cruise and as we pulled up to this guy pull out his schlong (for lack of a better word). He just whipped it out and started walking, swinging it back and forth. Since I'm still a five year old I clearly had to take a million pictures. So now my camera is loaded with pictures of elephant dicks... And then as we were pulling away he just pulled it back in. He really just wanted us to see what he was working with (to his credit he was working with a lot. It was impressive, he almost stepped on it a few times...)
• Today took the cake for the sadest thing I've seen in Africa. We were on a bus coming from the west back to Kampala (the capital). Part wya through a woman walks up the isle freaking out. after a bit the conductor let her off. None of this happened in English so we didn't know what was going on but all the other passengers were looking around curiously. Then we saw some guy carry off his ten year old son who was sleeping. Curiosity got the best of us so we asked the guy next to us what was going on. He didn't really speak englih so all we got was "dead... child, children." I guess the sleeping kid had died in the back of the bus and his dad had to carry him off. The worst part was that people here are so used to seeing this type of thing that two minutes after they got off the bus just drove away and left them with a crowd of people around them. Nobody spoke english well enough to tell us what happened but our guess is that he was sick and going to Kampala to see a doctor but he died before he could get there. I guess that's what real poverty is...
• Anyways tomorrow we're leaving at about 9:30 pm. If there's anything else you're curious about you'll have to ask me then. I've got plenty of other stories that I was just too lazy to write about. Sue me, I worked a lot. Thanks for reading, see you stateside.