#pcuganda

[kelseysabo]

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A little Boom Chicka Boom to get the people going before 3rd grade reading class haaaaaay! I miss busting out into song and dance on a daily basis for school💃🏽🌍👌🏼 (P.s. studying musical theatre was the best thing I could’ve done to prep for my 3.5 years in East Africa). #rpcv #pcuganda #energizers #teaching #englishteacher #education #havefun #uganda

[garlandsmithh]

First: move into my house and compound.

Second: Filter some water, set a clothesline, hand wash laundry, plan my permagarden, buy a sigri stove with charcoal and matches, fill a jerry can for a bucket bath, locate tp for my pit latrine... take a picture of my house and compound.

[garlandsmithh]

We want YOU to join the Peace Corps.

P.S. Yes, its “corps,” but a firearm is not necessary, however, a pen, paper, and an open mind are well recommended.

Check it:

http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1459655/us-volunteers-begin-service-uganda

https://ug.usembassy.gov/52-new-peace-corps-health-agribusiness-volunteers-begin-service-uganda/

[garlandsmithh]

Burning Trash

At night—the light turned off, the filament 

Unburdened of its atom-eating charge,

His wife asleep, her breathing dipping low

To touch a swampy source—he thought of death.

Her father's hilltop home allowed him time

To sense the nothing standing like a sheet

Of speckless glass behind his human future.

He had two comforts he could see, just two.

 One was the cheerful fullness of most things:

Plump stones and clouds, expectant pods, the soil

Offering up pressure to his knees and hands.

The other was burning the trash each day.

He liked the heat, the imitation danger,

And the way, as he tossed in used-up news,

String, napkins, envelopes, and paper cups,

Hypnotic tongues of order intervened.

-John Updike

[garlandsmithh]

A drought a day keeps the plants at bay. :(

Sunflowers are my mom’s favorite flower... Ma, I promise the rainy season is coming soon!

[garlandsmithh]

The “Beautification of Bushenyi Town Along High Street” project has brought missing beauty back to the town of Bushenyi in SW Uganda by installing recycling cans for roadside litter as well as constructing road verges for plants.

[garlandsmithh]

Farmers collecting and shredding grass for the farm cows. Most people In Uganda, at least in SW Uganda, drink boiled milk multiple times a day and receive this milk straight from the farm daily since refrigeration is scarce-to-nonexistent for most, making owning a cow very significant for family consumption and business.

[garlandsmithh]

Farmers collecting and shredding grass for the farm cows.