Fried Grasshoppers!!

First let me clarify what is going on with the typhoid. I guess the reason we all tested positive for typhoid is because the immunization we all got before we came is still fighting that bacteria in our body so it shows positive in our blood tests. So actually none of us had typhoid! haha. It was fun while it lasted I guess. ;)
I spent a majority of my time this week at meetings for teacher trainings. A group came from Kenya to teach their curriculum to try to start it in Uganda. Dani, a volunteer here, her parents work a lot with this group back in America. We went to the trainings so that we can start going around to different schools and training the teachers. One of the things they do is teach the children through music and dance. I loved this! I can really see how children can learn more if you put something into a song and dance. It not only helps with making learning easier, but it creates group unity and when the teachers do these activities with them it puts the teacher more at the level of the students creating a closer relationship between them. I wish you could all be involved in these songs and dances. They are so fun! Anyways, Dani and I are going to be going around to schools in the area to do teacher trainings and teach them the music and dance method.
While we were attending these trainings, they fed us an amazing lunch each day. During this time I met a kid named Ishmel. He informed me that he has always wanted to try an American sandwich. So we made a trade. I am all for trying foods of the culture and fried grasshoppers are a big thing here. I brought him a PB&J and he brought me grasshoppers. It kind of creeped me out seeing their eyes before I ate them, but it actually was not too bad. It kind of tasted like a potato chip! But I still thing Ishmel got the better end of the deal!
Our friend Luta performs every friday night doing a comedy act at a local club. We thought we would go watch him and experience some of the Ugandan night life. Turns out that a Ugandan comedy show is bad lip sinking. These group of guys kept coming out all thugged out and pretty much just help up a microphone to their mouths and danced on stage. I guess it was funny? Then it kind of turned into a strip show when this girl came out with practicaly nothing on and starting dancing to Celine Deon and giving lap dances to the guys next to us. We of course got front row seats because we are white so we got to see it all! Yeah... it got kind of uncomfortable and we were about to leave when Luta finally came out dressed like a pot belly farmer. His dances were hilarious! He was the hit of the show! People come up to the performers they like and give them money. Luta made the most money of everyone that night. Another good cultural experience I suppose.
Its crazy to think that I have been here five weeks already and I only have five more weeks left! The rest of my schedule is jam packed up until I leave which is going to make the time fly! Lugazi feels like another home to me and I can't imagine myself being anywhere else right now.