So it's Wed morning, while I’m waiting for my incredibly slow internet to load groupwise. I am learning patience and to devalue my own time, believe me. This makes our complaints about Messiah internet look pathetic. However, I find that I don’t have as much to do here, anyways, and I can write to you, people watch, and enjoy the weather while I am waiting to read my emails.
I ended up sleeping pretty well last night, even though that alarm was STILL going off this morning. Pretty incredible, if you ask me, that hundreds of Sabiti dorm residents sleep through a high pitched, loud, beeping alarm without one complaint. Can you imagine what would happen back in the states? It’s funny how having options and privileges open the mind to a set of “expectations” or “rights” that the people here would find so silly. Ok my first hypothesis is that they feel very privileged to be at this university at all, so any inconveniences pale in comparison to the blessings of being able to study. My second is that most people comes from villages or homes that have very few of the conveniences found here, such as showers, running water, and three square meals a day. Thus, any inconveniences pale in comparison to the luxury of life here. My third is that to complain is simply not in the culture. Come to think of it, I can’t think of a single complaint I’ve heard in all the conversations I have had with Ugandans so far.
We have "community worship" here, which is similar to chapel. Oh and today i'm going to this club called the Areopagus Society where they "discourse" on the intersection of science and faith. It's at 12:30.
--Emmes
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