I am a Mzungu!

This week has been busy with finding what areas and project that we wan to work in. I have tried many different projects and I have decided that my main focus is going to be volunteering at the hospital, working with womens groups, and teaching literacy classes. From the moment I walked into the Lugazi hospital, I knew that I wanted to do something to help even if it was just donating my time there. We are so blessed in America to have the health system that we do. In most areas of the hospital, all the patients are kept in one large room together. The infectious patients are where the operation patients are. It is overall an overcrowded unsanitary place compared to what we have in the states. They need so much help. I am now the teach lead over the pediatrics section of the hospital. I want to start up some classes there to offer to the mothers whose children are being treated where we would teach sanitation and HIV/AIDS awareness. Also, the asked if we have a social worker in our group because a lot of the mothers could use something like that. So will work in that area as well.
We are starting classes this week on Tuesdays and Fridays for locals to come learn to read and write. Many women come because they have very few english skills and that really helps increase their business. You don't get far if you dont know how to read and write and speak english. We also are going to work with some other womens groups and teach them business skills such as budgeting. Those are my main areas of focus as of now.
It is amazing how much I am craving American food! They don't have many snack foods here! No oreos, french fries, hardly and chocolate, and no ben and jerrys!!! I am living off peanut butter and banana sandwiches (the bread and peanut butter just dont cut it), my granola bars I brought, and Marry's cooking. She cooks for us each night. It is the same thing each night with one main thing that changes up every now and then. It's really good! She is an amazing cook! But i'm not sure how long I can eat the same thing each night! We are in charge of getting our own breakfast and lunch. Their fruit is AMAZING here! The pineapple and avacados are to die for! I also have a rolex a few times a week which basically is an omelette on chipate bread. We went into Jinja yesterday. It is more of a tourest destination so a lot more eating choices. We found an american restraunt. I pounded so much food!! I'm afraid that when I get home I'm just going to pound everything that I didn't have here! Which is pretty much everything! I'm going to get fat!! =)
I have tried uploading pictures onto my blog, but the computers are so slow here that it's not going to work. So you will have just have to wait till I get home to see them.