And then there was randomness

- I heart bullet points

- I have mounds and mounds upon hills and mountain of energy. But I am headed to a dinner to learn about HIV. Where sitting still will be required.

- At this dinner I am going to get a sandwich! A veggie sandwich! That means vegetables in between bread! VEGETABLES!!!! in between bread!!!!!!! I love sandwiches. Wait could this anticipation be where the energy is coming from? Hmmm.

- School elections are going on this Friday. The elections are shockingly corrupt. One of my profs, Gwen, observed that this generation has literally never experienced a fair election so it shouldn't even be surprising that buying votes or bribing people with beer is seen as acceptable. I had an argument with my host family about how those things (bring and such) are corrupt. My family disagreed and claimed those are the things that make a good leader. Whoever can buy enough or bribe enough votes will be the best leader. Um what?! How can educated people believe that! Worldview is so so different from my own!

- Related to the elections there are posters all over campus with big pictures of the candidates. None of them are smiling in their photos. They look like death announcements or something. One poster is scarier than all the others. And it is MUCH more prevalent than all the others. So I may have stolen one of the posters to hang on the wall of my room at home (despite laughing protests from host sisters who share room with me). This may have set off a rash of poster thefts by the American students. I have had 5 of this poster brought to me by american friends. Not including the one I ripped off the front wall of my Ugandan Bible class. The class thinks I am crazy anyway...

- In the last package I got valentines paraphernalia. Today in my Ugandan Bible class I handed out heart shaped temporary tattoos to my friends. Huge hit. Ugandans love the temporary tattoo. We spent half an hour pouring water on each others arms and applying the tattoos. Best class ever.

- Oh no wait. The best class ever was yesterday when we were supposed to have a test in the lecture. So I show up for the lecture and wait for 20 mins. I see some friends who are law students. Silver comes over to me and is like "Kelsey this is a law lecture. why are you here?" Um where is my class? Apparently it got moved to the dining hall. And while like every person in the class remembered to tell me that they had a test NO one had enough airtime to call me and tell me it was moved to the dining hall. Hilarious. I explained the situation to the prof who cracked up at the mzungu being so out of the loop. And then apologized. Ugandans love to apologize.

- Worlds greatest argument with my Ugandan friend Jonathan this past weekend. I remembered that I love to argue and miss people who will argue with me! Not really argue. Real conflict makes me cry. But debating is fun. Also pushing Becky's buttons and getting her to argue with you about anything is fantastic. hahaha.

- Remind me to blog about greetings. I keep forgetting. Also ask questions! I forget what is interesting. :)