Our Trip into Mukonotown

Mukono is the nearest town, as I probably mentioned - about a 10-minute walk from UCU. The UCU students call in Mukono Town, because tehnically the whole area around it, the school and other places not in town, are also a part of Mukono. Our whole group (39 total) did a scavenger hunt through town and bought some emergency airtime (minutes) for our phones and other necessities. I bought the airtime, some laundry detergent, and toiler paper. Africans don't really use toilet paper so us Americans who would like some have to go down to the store and buy it by the roll. We also keep it in our room and carry it back and forth to the bathroom whenever we need to use it. There also isn't any soap in any of the bathrooms, so the hand sanitizer I brought is really coming in handy. I am glad that we have real toilets in our dorm though. A few of us from Honors College walked down to the other girls' dorm, Sabiiti, to visit the 5 USP girls staying there and their bathrooms are "squatters," basically a hole in the ground with a big silver plate-type deal over it to stand on and such. I took a bunch of pictures in town, so here you go.


That's a goat. We walked by a field with a couple of them standing around, like this one, and then some baby goats started jumping out of a tree in the field. I didn't catch any of the jumping goats, but I did get this one.


Some funky purple flowers.


A few boda boda drivers. The motorcycle/bikes they drive are called bodabodas. We are strictly forbidden from riding on them. They're dangerous.


I tried to get a picture of some of the houses and buildings on the hill because it looked pretty cool, but we were walking and we were across the street and cars and such were driving by, so I don't know how it turned out.


A supermarket. I don't think it's the one we actually went to though.


A giant tree across from the supermarket that we did go to.


An advertisement for MTN, the cell phone service provider we're using. I just thought it was amusing.


The street. The white girl is Nicole, who's in our group (you can probably assume that any white people in my pictures are a part of USP). The distance she is from the truck is about how close we were to any vehicles driving on the streets, or possibly closer. Also, notice the dirt road. That's the main street through Mukonotown.