Tubaagaliza omwaka omuggya (We wish you a happy new year!)

Hi Everyone! 

It has been a few days since we last posted, but a lot of things have happened. We went back for a second round with the students in Masanafu where we started work on solo's, and we returned to Kikajjo to spend New Years. Since New Years day was our day off from teaching, Amy planned a day out in Kampala for us. We went to the National Ugandan Museum, a craft market, and the National Mosque. What was really nice about the whole thing was that the five guys from Kikajjo came with us and some of them experienced sight seeing around their city for the first time as well. 

So here are some pictures from our day out! Blue was an undiscussed theme for the whole group, except for Jimmy, he is the one in red. Jimmy loses. 

 Group picture! This is in front of a man made lake that has an island in the middle that apparently only the king (kubaka) is allowed to go on. Left to right: Najib, Rochie, Jimmy, Liz, Hamid, Frankie, George, Emily

 This is the National Mosque in Kampala, it's HUGE. Also it is strict about dress code so....here are some fun pictures of us. 

There was a woman who had a basket of different colored scarves that she used to wrap us in.

 She was quite good with matching colors

We had to have both our legs and heads appropriately covered

The four ladies of the group! I'm actually not sure if we've introduced Amy to everyone on our blog.... 

This is Amy! She is the reason we are here and she did a great job showing us the capital of Uganda.

We climbed the tower of the Mosque, it's 20 (count it, TWENTY) floors high. It's eight stairs a flight, two flights a floor. sixteen steps times twenty floors is THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY STEPS. I'd like to see you try and climb three hundred and twenty steps with a super tight head wrap on. -_-

We were rewarded with this view of the city. It was worth it

We still look good after stairs

The city of Kampala is surrounded by 7 hills. The Mosque is at the top of one hill, at the top of the hill to the right is a Protestant Church, and in the distance to the left, there is a Catholic Church on the top of that hill. The city is literally surrounded by Religion. 

 We bought the most touristy shirts in Uganda. They say "My name is not Mzungu" because that is all people call us here. They think we don't have names, only Mzungu. In case you don't remember, Mzungu means "white people."

Emily says good night

Good Night Everyone! 

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