Uganda do what?

There's a new post on my blog's new home -  UgandaDoWhat.com . It will live there forevermore and this site will no longer be updated. 

     Time flies when you're having fun and when you're busy - the combination of the two has made the last week and a half seem like a blink. I don't think I'd be able to remember one day from another if not for journaling.      Wednesday (March 31st), I was happily sitting on my bed when I thought I saw something out of the corner of my eye. Sure enough, the cockroach decided to make an appearance - in the middle of my room, with the lights on, with me playing music and making noise. I reacted very bravely by grabbing my bedside reading light and trying to scare it back into the bathroom while whimpering/pleading. I scared it, but for some reason it ran towards me and into my closet... into the pants I was planning to wear the next day - right up the leg. 😭 I slowly walked around the last place I saw him and got some "kilit" spray from the kitchen. I'm not proud of the chase that happened, but eventually it went into the hallway and flipped onto its back...

    Monday night it stormed pretty heavily and I woke up to some earth-shaking thunder. It made me feel as though I'm somehow closer to the sky at the equator. Maybe it's related to the 4,000ft elevation?  I made it through the night without being attacked by the cockroach, which I considered a win. I like to think I'm pretty hearty and durable, but apparently not. I was excited to start my second day with IH, but wondered how the heavy rainfall would affect our plan to return to the farm. I was supposed to be picked up by a boda, but they sent a car since bodas are a bit uncomfortable and a bit unsafe when it's raining that hard.       When I got to work, I found out that we would be making a slight detour on the way to the farm so we could drop off 3 coworkers at a nearby town. It had basically stopped raining by the time we got to the place we were dropping them off, but it started pouring by the time we got back to the farm. The crew we were suppos...