I've been in Uganda for just over two weeks.. Spent last week doing a training in a resort town by a beautiful lake, where there was a frangipani (plumeria?) right outside my window so i felt like I was in Hawaii every time I left my room. That smell evokes so many memories for me.

Driving back to Kampala yesterday, we stopped and ate a lot of roasted foods on sticks: roasted bananas (amazing), brined chicken wings (amazing), chicken gizzards (not as amazing. I don't even really know what is a gizzard, but I think it's like liver and some other internal cartileg-y chicken part? Still. Try everything once, right?). Also I ate chapatis that the guy made right in front of me in a cast iron griddle on the side of the street, and then wrapped in a newspaper and gave to me hot and fresh.

I have some friends here from home doing some malaria work, so last night we went out to a bar and had a few (too many) drinks and listened to Congolese and Nigerian music, then we jumped on bodabodas and made it home by 3am... My friend wanted to get another beer at the bar at the hotel but I, for once, was smart and said "hell no". I was grateful when I woke up for work at 7am... today is a bit rough. But still, totally worth it. I love the feeling of zooming along on the back of a motorcycle through the green and leafy darkness, warm breeze in my hair. I know. Helmets, etc. But it was 3am. No one was around to run into us.

Hanging out with my friend T, who is so aligned with me this way, I could only think how much easier my life would be if BT knew this side of my life and wanted to be out in the world the way I do. Blah blah i know, so boring, the way I keep harping on this. But I just can't help but fear we are fundamentally incompatible in this way, and then what are we doing?

Or maybe I'm overthinking it and I can just keep doing it all on my own and he can stay home and build stuff or whatever and sometimes we get to be in the same place at the same time. It's just all the interesting conversations that I have with these people here and all the not interesting conversations I have with those people there. anyway. it will be what it is going to be.

11:45 a.m. - 2016-04-15