“Nsonyiwa, njiga Luganda.” (Forgive
me, I’m learning Luganda.) This is the sentence I am going to be saying for the
next two years to excuse my poor language skills. I have officially begun
language training because on Friday we received our sites. I officially know
where I am going to be living for the next two years. I officially have a home.
That home is in Central Uganda at a boarding school where I am going to be
teaching literacy and I could not be more excited.
Starting on
January 20th “Nsomesa luzungu in Uganda”. (I teach English) It is so good to finally
know where I am going to be spending the next two years of my life. This was
truly a dream come true. I wanted nothing more than to be in central learning Luganda.
There were many reasons to that but mainly because I am about 3 hours from
Toggo so I can make weekend trips when I have the time. I cannot wait to see my
kiddos and my beautiful family. I also cannot wait to show off my new Luganda
skills. The language training is coming in hot. We have only been training for
about two days and I already feel like I know so much. Which is good. I still
have room for improvement and I won’t be fluent anytime soon.
I am getting so anxious to finally
be in my own home. I get to visit my site this weekend and than will be moving
into my homestay starting on December 22nd and will be there for
about a month and than we swear in on January 19th! Things are
moving quickly here with the Peace Corps and I barely have time to stop and
breath but honestly that has been so good. Being busy and missing home is the
perfect mix, because you don’t have time to stop and think about your missing
home.
So here we are coming to our last
week living all together. My cohort has become my family and I couldn’t have
gotten this far with out them. We are moving on to the next phase of our
adventure. I still have the blessing of being with nine of my cohort 5 family
when I move into my homestay since we will be doing language training together
but it is going to be weird not being around the other 25, but staging weekend
will be such a beautiful reunion when we all come together again.
Ndi kubanga Tuli, (I am because we
are). In the last month I have changed and I am who I am because of this
adventure. I can’t wait to continue to live out this adventure and find myself
even more. I am muzira, (brave). And it’s
because of all Uganda and the Peace Corps has taught me so far.
Njagala, Uganda.
I love you, Uganda.
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