{"id":43,"date":"2013-06-05T17:06:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T21:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ugandaford\/?p=43"},"modified":"2013-06-05T17:06:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T21:06:11","slug":"sun-june-2-professors-post-first-days-back-in-nansana-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ugandaford\/2013\/06\/05\/sun-june-2-professors-post-first-days-back-in-nansana-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"SUN, JUNE 2: Professor&#8217;s Post: First days back in Nansana, Uganda\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #444444;font-weight: normal\">This is my second trip to Ashinaga Rainbow House in Nansana, Uganda since April, and I\u2019m so pleased to share this experience with two Ford Scholars from Vassar College, Sam(antha) Smith \u201814 and Malinda Reese \u201816.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Every morning, our walks from the Nexus Hotel to Ashinaga have been filled with waving and greeting many children and adults, being called \u201c<i>Mzungu<\/i>,\u201d constant honking from the taxis, and the various smells of people cooking and preparing food.\u00a0 We\u2019ve become quite nimble in avoiding the <i>boda bodas<\/i> (motorcycle taxis) and large trucks that hurtle by within inches of us.\u00a0 Somehow, I\u2019m getting used to the crazy traffic, but I still get bent out of shape when I see an adult on a <i>boda boda<\/i> with an infant or multiple children.\u00a0 As far as I can tell, car seats do not exist, and small children sit on their parents\u2019 laps while driving in cars or trucks on the pot-holed ridden roads.\u00a0 And seat belts\u2026well, those seem to be optional for most Ugandans. (Parents, take note: I\u2019m happy to report that Sam, Malinda and I are using seatbelts in the Ashinaga van.)<\/p>\n<p>I have really enjoyed seeing the multitude of townspeople who sell their wares along the street.\u00a0 Huge, yummy avocados, tomatoes, potatoes, large branches of <i>matooke<\/i> (plantains), fish, chapatti, <i>amazzi<\/i> (\u201cwater\u201d\u2026beware if you say this incorrectly.\u00a0 It elicits horrified looks and giggles from the Ugandans.)\u00a0 Selling milk is also common, and one of my favorite signs is \u201cDiary Milk.\u201d The Luganda language is spelled phonetically, so we get some interesting pronunciations and spellings in English.\u00a0 For example, there are many people who sell chapatti and \u201crolex.\u201d\u00a0 For quite a while, I was confused by this combination until I discovered that \u201crolex\u201d is egg rolled in something like a tortilla\u2026rolled eggs\u2026Rolex.\u00a0 You get the picture.<\/p>\n<p>Used shoes and clothes are plentiful, and tailors and dressmakers hang their new glittering, colorful clothes at the front of the shops.\u00a0 Most shops are made of wood and look like small shacks.\u00a0\u00a0 In some cases, people sell their wares in a spot at the side of the road.\u00a0 There are more expensive shops that sell things like water, rice, flour, and basic medications.\u00a0 Those stores tend to be in small complexes that have steel, secure doors.\u00a0 Although the level of poverty is staggering to me, everyone is working and selling something, and begging seems to be non-existent here in Nansana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">&#8211; CH<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my second trip to Ashinaga Rainbow House in Nansana, Uganda since April, and I\u2019m so pleased to share this experience with two Ford Scholars from Vassar College, Sam(antha) Smith \u201814 and Malinda Reese \u201816. Every morning, our walks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ugandaford\/2013\/06\/05\/sun-june-2-professors-post-first-days-back-in-nansana-uganda\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ugandaford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ugandaford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ugandaford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ugandaford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ugandaford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ugandaford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ugandaford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ugandaford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ugandaford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ugandaford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}