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Sally in Uganda

ELI volunteer, Sally C., worked at an orphanage in Uganda.

 

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Journal Entries


Entry 2: Family

 

Relatives in Iganga

 

The next day we woke up to roosters crowing and the sounds of the small town Iganga starting its day.  When we left our room we sat in the main room of the house on couches where the family served us fried eggs in sugar, banana pancakes, and black tea with a lot of sugar.  All of the surrounding neighbors were very interested in us and would come and talk on the porch.  It was difficult to tell who was in our family and who was a neighbor.  Although we were staying at Michael’s home he lived in a house nearby with his wife Farida and their three girls, and we stayed in his other house with his sister-in-law, mother-in-law, and many nieces and nephews.  According to the Ugandan culture husbands are not allowed to be in close proximity to the female relatives of their wife or wives.  This tradition is beginning to die however and there were several times when Michael would join us all and sit close to the female relatives. 

 

 
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