whats been happening

Molimotiya Nnyabo and Seyabo!!
(How are you ladies and Gentlemen)

Nze Rebekah Nakato, Mva Tasmania, olina emyaka abiddy!
(I am Rebekah-Nakato--is my uganda name meaning youngest twin, mary is Babirye, I am from tasmania and i am 20 years old!!) haha getting there with the language. we know lots of greetings and some other words. however it is always awkard when we greet someone in lugandan cause then they think we know the language! haha so then they answer us saying words we have not learnt yet and we say ah kali which means ok :D. we laugh. they laugh at us silly muzungus alot!! :)

Festus is the VOLSET coordinator and big boss man, we live with him in Ntenjeru. he is a rockstar and a superstar. he is our jjajja (grandfather). He is 52 years old, short, uganda, and completley awesome. he loovvvesss music and loves to sing and dance. it was he who named as Nakato and Babirye because all muzungus look the same and so we are twins :P.

Lydia is also a rockstar :P she is 26 studying social work but she is on holidays. she looks after and organises Jjajja. She looks like a movie star and has a whoopi goldberg smile...gorgeous :). she is a wonderful cook! we eat lotsss of carbohydrates here :( but it is lovely food. its amazing bcuz they are so simple but very flavoursome...no preservatives yay!! haha we are going to learn how to cook next week hopefully! In Lugandan the word food means carbohydrates, so they have rice, matooke (fried mashed banana), poosho( maize), potatoes and they have soup with it. soup isnt like ours. its more like stew i guess...beans mostly, and pinenut soup is the lushest!! and we sometimes have meat.

The kids who live at the dorm near our house are rebecca, teddy, rose, and joyce. they are great girls but i am running out of time so ill talk more about them later.

So this week Festus and Zack (Awesome american peace corps dude who has been living in ntenjeru for a year) organised a training week, training community members to become vhts (village health team). Its amazing. its free training, teaching them about health care, malaria, tb, family planning, adolscent health, breastfeeding, education,health promotion, nutrition etc. a lot of information! they are very smart people and asked good questions. mary and i taught on hiv/aids and stis which was very fun and a bit nerve racking. we had a translator which was fun. this week tho as been quiet for as as most of the teaching was in lugandan meaning we couldnt understand so we didnt do much. lots of sitting outside singing songs...haha it was sad we were in a african village singing highschool musical, hilary duff and abba!! :D we also got some jobs like rice sorting which was kinda fun!!

ok times going to go in a min so best go :)