"You know Sir Alex? This is how I know that white people are a whole different animal than Africans. He retired at the top of his game. Voluntarily! If an African has control of a football team, let alone a country, you will have to pry it from his hands. I swear this to you! Sir Alex is crazy!"

Coworker

Also, too

I have a million photos (Easter, Rwanda, Zambia, Ssezibwe, last field visits) that I haven’t posted or written about because…I have been busy doing them and not processing them. Or at least, cropping them for your viewing pleasure. So! I will probably do my last few updates from home, which is kind of lame but also, at least makes it so I can look back on them when  if I’m feeling nostalgic. 

Tiny update: Of course I find a new yoga class to love and my house adopts a cat that loves me the most right as I’m on my way out! It’s the worst! He’s so cute! The cat. Not the yoga class. 

When you realize you’ll be back home in 2 weeks

Setting Expectations for a Training

Me:	What are your fears, likes and dislikes, before we start this training?
Project Officer:	My fear is nothing on this Earth. My likes are divine business. My dislikes are all things that lead to Hell.
Me:

How Different Cultures Handle Personal Space : NPR →

How we navigate one another’s space is an important and nuanced part of communicating. Two authors observe how this dynamic plays out in Cairo and Sao Paulo.

MY LIFE. I am actually really excited to get back to good old fashioned never-being-touched-by-strangers. 

Lookin' Good

Me:	Let's talk about the division of labor in Eastern Uganda.
Coworker:	The woman... she has so many tasks. When she is 20, she looks 40. But the man has no worries at all! So me, I am 35 and I look 18! [Preens and smiles]
Me:	[Falling down laughing]

Kampala Sentimentality

Two weeks until lift-off, so here is a cute story. One time, my boda almost got into an accident in the middle of a very muddy slum… because the driver was braking for a puppy crossing the road. 

(via mewis-is-my-muse)