Uganda Read This!: Home Life

As a Volunteer you spend an ample amount of time at your organization, then in your community, and finally at home. Home has a broad definition between PCV’s but we are all given two-bedrooms to make due with. After that the amenities range but most of us are able to easily acclimate to our new environment.

Here are some pictures to give you a chance to see what I call home. This is where I spend my days cooking, cleaning, and crafting. This is the place that my youth and I hang out. This is the place I have come to love.

The living room where I spend all of my time, mainly because the fan is there but today the power is out, hence the reason it’s at a standstill. There is a small couch much like the eabra chairs that is sandwiched between the chair in the corner and the dining table, pictured below.

The dining table that I mainly use during rainy season because during dry season it constantly has a layer of dust, no matter what I do. Read OCD(ust)..

I can confidently say that my homes have gotten better with each site but the bed size has gotten smaller with each change. No complaints though… I am safe from mosquitoes!

I’m lucky to have running water so this resembles pretty much any other traditional bathroom.

Shower tucked in the corner and those drawings help me learn the local language… Body parts and time/numbers.

Kitchen! You can see that I have made a lot of things with tomato paste and am currently using those as candleholders and vases for when sunflowers are in season. The compound I stay in had already had this handy stove/oven combo, which runs off of gas. Three of the four burners work but quite frankly; I rarely use more than one.