Peace Corps Goal #3: Share American culture with others in your community (or something like that)…check. The night before July 4th, Caitlin and I threw down for an American bash and invited our Ugandan friends from the PTC. How did we get this idea, you ask? Well we told one of the PTC officials that we were going to Fort Portal to celebrate with over half the PCVs in Uganda, to which he responds, "Why don't you celebrate here with us?!"
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| Me and my counterparts: Bright & Constance |
It was a nice opportunity to share with them how we celebrate our day of independence, cook some American food (other than cookies-- they all thought for months that's all we ate because it was the only thing we brought them) and show them some muzungu dance moves.
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| Me and Caitlin with Asaph, our dance champion! |
We have four Irish girls on campus for a few weeks, here for a teaching program. They are so crafty and sweet, and brought us a bunch of homemade goodies, including an American flag, a poster proclaiming "Happy Independence Day", red white and blue flags, and yarn bracelets.
We slaved away all afternoon to make pasta salad, potato salad, guacamole and chips, snickerdoodles and fruit salad.
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| Do the twist! Dancin' up a storm |
As the evening wore on, it turned typically Ugandan and turned into a massively fun dance party. Caitiln and I modeled how to do the twist-- Pulp Fiction style. One of the administrators at the college, Asaph, gave it a go and was an absolute riot. He looked like a robot dancing on stilts. Pretty soon, we were all up and dancing in our living room, swing dancing to old Beatles and James Brown songs. As a housewarming gift, my counterpart gave us a giant American flag that is proudly hanging in our house.
Happy Fourth everyone!
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