Long Time, No Post

01 Jul 2011 1 Comment

by danrennt98 in Uncategorized

Hey Everyone,

You may or may not be curious about my latest goings on in Ugandizzle. I haven’t posted/been online much since my parents came and I definitely want to write about that trip and about how wonderful it was to have my parents here and how I thought my mom would’ve had enough of Uganda after 10 days here. BUT it turns out she’s all ready planning a trip back (whether or not that happens is a different story!). I’m going to write it soon but it’s going to be a long long post so I’ve been putting it off.

But if anything I’m hoping I’ll be able to come back home to visit within the next year, possibly at Christmastime, but only time will tell! I would love to come home and spend some time living at my rents house in NY for a week or so and then spend sometime going to see my family in NJ for the holidays. And then spend some time with my friends in NJ, probably staying at my second home (Wesley’s house, thanks in advance to the Leweys!). And go to a psytrance party for New Year’s! OH how nice that would be, but there is no definites yet, so let’s not anyone including myself get my hopes up!

Fun Facts:

It’s rude to give someone a dozen flowers in Russia. In Russia, even numbers of flowers are reserved for funerals. So if you’re dating a Russian I would go with the single rose in the mouth, while you do the tango.

It’s also rude when buying something at a store, in Mexico, to put the money on the counter instead of handing it directly to the clerk.

I’ve also started making a bucket list.. inspired by my friend Joanna which I will post soon and hopefully I can start crossing some things off that list once I leave this sometimes-ridiculous/sometimes-wonderful country.

But life in Kamuli has been pretty relaxed since my parents left and after being away for a little over 2 weeks doing muzungu things, it’s taken me a while to get back into the swing of things. The power’s been terrible and is never on when I feel like going online, or at all for that matter. Plus what I’m doing is making a ginormous list of our defaulters, so we can hunt them down and take their (our) money back. [And apparently according to Mozilla Firefox, "ginormous" is a real word] Which is a bit difficult to do when there is no credit system or addresses and all it takes is a trip to the store to change your number. But I need electricity to make this list. So I’ve been making a marketing plan on the side. For the first week or so back from my vacation, I was pretty much coming in to work at 10 and then coming back and then going home in the afternoon to relax. And it doesn’t help that I bought about 10 seasons of TV shows for a total of $10 — score. I got Dexter, Alias, Six Feet Under, Chuck, Lost, and Pushing Daisies.

So, once you start watching a season of TV its hard to push the stop button and do something else. I’m also trying to recreate the good memories of how Jill, Jess and I used to cuddle up on my bed and watch the first 5 seasons of Lost on my computer in Vermont. I miss those days. Being late for work, because we had to finished the episode before I could leave.

I’ll leave you for now with a little story, but I promise to return soon and write a blog about my parents trip to Uganda. So, a pack of roosters moved in 2 doors down courtesy of my neighbors  and I ****ing hate them. There’s a back window in their coop which faces the brick wall that my back window faces too. So their crowing ricochets off the wall straight into my window and into my ears and I’ve never wanted to kill any animals so much in my life. I’ve thought about becoming a rooster serial killer, but the only thing that stops me is the fact that I would be ruining my neighbor’s livelihood which is exactly the opposite of my purpose in coming here. But it reminds me of my wonderful friend Jill Escott when we were in Vermont. She used to have a ring-back tone on here phone that went “the rooster crows at the break of dawn, look out your window and I’ll be gone..” And it always reminds me of Jill and that song. Specifically because that song is a white lie. The rooster does crow at the break of dawn, BUT the rooster also crows at 3:00 in the morning when it is completely dark. Why rooster must you crow at night? That is not your job. It seems like your job is to piss me off. Not cool roosters, not cool.