NATUPLWAS Community Bakery. Mind your Business!

Good morning! And a wonderful morning it is. Why, might you ask? Because this morning it was raining, now it is cloudy, and overall it is cool, not hot humid and gross! I didn't sweat my ass off this morning walking to TASO! Anyway, this excites me...

So, since Saturday... Much has happened.

Starting with Sunday, FSD took all of us Jinja GESI folk to Kampala to watch a show of traditional dance and music. It was a fairly good show, even though the MC talked far too much. Also, he made an awkward joke about the North aht the Acholi... But aside from that it was fascinating to see the traditional dances of Uganda. Around the country, all of the dances involve an amazing motor, with their hips moving side to side for minutes on end. All of us were highly impressed at the core strength required to maintain such a dance for as long as the women did.
Of course, Sunday was the Fourth of July, and at the end of the show the MC asked for birthdays. One girl in the audience shouted out that it was America's birthday, and all of the Americans proceeded down to the stage where we sang Happy Birthday to America, and also one other girl who was in the audience. All in all it was a very good day.

Which brings us to Monday. We went wit hRobinson, our boss at TASO, and his trusty sidekick Martin to Naminya, the community that we will be working with. We had a meeting with NATUPLWAS (the HIV positive group formed by TASO in Naminya) to gauge the community's interest in different projects. They were very interested in forming a bakery, and after much deliberation internally, my fellow group mates and I decided to move forward with the Bakery project. On tuesday we had an FSD meeting to discuss the bakery project, and tried to do some market research for the bakery, though Sunrise Bakery in Jinja wasn't working.

Which brings us to yesterday, a breakthrough day. Robinson put us in contact with a woman named Nora, who is a client of TASO and bakes, and she joined Martin and us when we went to Naminya to discuss the bakery further. We then did some budget research by checking prices on materials and a whole bunch of misc. stuff. Nora cut us sugar cane to chew on while we discussed the technicalities of creating the bakery.

In other news, Netherlands won (YAY) , and Germany lost (Boooooooo), and the world cup continues. Aashish and I found a place in town where they project the game on a big sheet, so we can watch games on a big screen. Jorum now has Malaria, and while Joseph is getting better slowly, he apparently also has sickle cell, which sucks. Blessing is still totally fine. All three now like me becuase I can bribe them with candy and pick them up. Things are going well, and I have more or less run out of news.

Oh, one more thing! We met Menonites! They live across from where NATUPLWAS meets, and they have been there for just short of three years on a mission. They were very nice.

Now that's all.

Lehit!