t.i.a.

Blogging doesn't get any easier when you're in Africa. Not counting the day and a half I spent feeling terribly jet-lagged, I've been in Jinja for two days now. It's simply indescribable, and it's hard to blog when you aren't totally sure what you think or feel about it all yet.

Here's 10 things I do know:

1. The Nile looks just like you would imagine—lush and wild and winding.
2. The air everywhere smells like burning plastic because people burn their trash on the side of the road.
3. Villages outside the city are beautiful and terrible and overwhelming and joyful all at the same time.
4. The avocados here are the size of melons.
5. Church in a shaded backyard really gives church in a building a run for its money.
6. Lots of Indian people live here and run businesses. You know what that means. Hello Indian food.
7. I wake up when the rooster crows. Literally. How can you sleep through a rooster crowing?
8. African traffic laws are not like American traffic laws.
9. "Mzungo hi. Mzungo bye." are such sweet words.
10. This afternoon as Meagan and I drove through the Mesese village, I said, "I never want to leave," and she said, "me either."