Day 5 - Bonding

My siblings here are all very nice.  They send me on my way to school in the morning and they greet & welcome me when I come home.  I like them very much.

The younger girls, Patience & Aida (? I’m not quite sure how she spells it) dance around the kitchen with me.  Just a simple thing I taught them… spinning in circles and things.  They enjoy it.  I also brought out my notebook & crayons for them to color in which was a lot of fun & also VERY good for my ethnography research paper that I am going to have to write.  The girls took turns writing out words in Luganda for me in a way that I can understand (like: way-ba-lay. Aka: thank you).  It was very good of them and interesting to see what they choose to teach me.  We took a few pictures on my camera as well… they’re all up on facebook now.  I’ll have to be careful with my camera; no one, not even Mama seems to understand that it is easily broken and scratched.

I also had my first class in Luganda today.  It was pretty good. I learned how to say, “How was your night ma’am/sir?” and “Thank you” and “Good.”  That class is crazy though- 6 hours of class time every week! Hopefully I’ll pick it up quickly, my family is ALWAYS speaking in Luganda around me.  They really don’t know much English.

Except my 9-year-old sister Patience did read me a children’s book in English today! SO CUTE.  I hope I can get her to do it again on camera… She love’s having video’s of herself speaking.  She says to me, “You take the camera & ask me the questions!” But you don’t hear the accent in those words, so let me spell it out for you…

“You take ze cam-air-a and isk me ze quest-on!”

The accent is one of the best things ever.  Well, it’s tea-time! Got to get me some sweet tea before class :)  Thanks for reading my blog, comments welcome!