Greetings to everyone!

I hope everyone is enjoying the Fourth of July.  I’m not sure what I’m doing tonight to celebrate but we’ll see what happens.  I was going to make my own sparklers but couldn’t find any potassium chlorate.  Bummer.

So what’s going on here?  Not all that much to be honest.  My HIV project is slowly coming along.  We’ve confirmed one school and are waiting on the second one to call back to confirm.  My verbal sparing with the AIDS Information Centre has paid off and I am free to talk as much about condoms as I want as long as I don’t pass any out (take that President Bush!).

I am really enjoying the family planning sessions and net sales which is how I spend most of my afternoons.  I’m resigned to the fact that I am not actually needed seeing as how everything I say gets translated into Lusoga but I’m confident that my presence is purely a draw for the crowd.  I mean, who wouldn’t stop to see what a white person was doing in their village with a big black dildo (in full disclosure, the dildo is average sized but it sounds better this way)?  I’m ok with being used for my white skin and I now know enough Lusoga to joke with the mothers when they offer up their daughters for marriage.

The sad event this week was the departure of the twins.  While my fascination with the two British medical students has faded over the weeks since I first met them, I will miss their presence around the clinic and on the outreaches.  I’m dreading a social isolation seeing as how I will no longer have any reason to go to the campsite since going to the campsite is basically like going to a frat house except everyone has a British/Australian/South African/New Zealand accent and everyone loves to kayak.  Maybe I’ll get lucky and Jenny the Peace Corp volunteer will show up.

I think that’s all for now.  Have a Happy Fourth of July everyone!  Drink beer, eat a hot dog, and blow things up for me!