Where I lived

Me and Stephanie, clothes line, and unfinished guest house.

Living in Uganda was excellent.  We lived in a town called Lugazi, with the family who was the head of the organization we worked for.  The house was being built as the family's home, headquarters/office for YOFAFO(the organization), and housing for volunteers - as I understand it, this is all donated by a previous volunteer.  The volunteer housing was still being worked on while we were there - so we lived in the house with the family - which had a 2 year old boy and baby girl, bahahahaha- I am not used to little kids!  They were great and a wonderful family, but by the end I was kind of over the whole screaming small child bit ;)

Mama and baby Beth

Joe.

There was a cook/house-cleaner, and a couple of ladies that did the laundry - pretty awesome actually.  We were getting spoiled!  The don't wash underwear though, you have to wash your own; and it can't go on the line outside, so we would have to hang it up in our room - kind of odd, and funny.

Doing laundry

cooking in banana leaves

The kitchen

Along with the volunteer quarters not being finished, neither was the kitchen, so they cooked outside at the side of the house.  To cook they have multiple smallish square metal boxes that the charcoal goes in, then the pot or kettle or pan, etc will either sit right on the coals or on a screen.  To cook most things they first wrap it in banana leaves then put them in the pots, and they cook for long periods of time.

Construction, a more finished guest house.

A ladder. I've never had a problem climbing these, but I'm not sure you'll catch me on this one!