So I have two pretty fantastic stories from today (Saturday). I’m going to start with the second one, because it’s fresher in my memory and more awesome. So around 4:15 or 4:30 I got back to the dorm (the first story is what I did today so just hold on). I got to my room, looked through my very ful purse for my keys and discovered that I did not have them. I called my roommate and she didn’t answer. I texted someone else and she told me that a bunch of girls, including my roommate are in Kampala today. I thought, oh great. They’re not going to be back for a few hours. Agatha, my friend across the hall, offered to let me nap on her bed, because I was really tired. I laid down for a little bit and ate some biscuits (cookies), because I didn’t get lunch today either. Tricia, Agatha’s roommate, told me that we should go down and talk to some of the guys and they would be able to break the lock. I didn’t want to break my lock, so I walked around to our window. Our windows have the window part which we usually leave open because it gets really hot otherwise and a screen, which latches from the inside. Coincidentally, I discovered that Rochelle’s window does not lock very securely and that it’s not too difficult to open my latch through there with a comb. Unfortunately, our windows also have bars. And since my keys weren’t on our desk where I thought they’d be, that was the end of that plan.
Agatha and I walked down to the boys’ dorm, Florence, and a couple UCU guys came with us intending to help break my lock. They tried to pick the lock with one of Rochelle’s bobby pins which I grabbed off our desk (I’m pretty intelligent, right?). That didn’t work, so we used Agatha’s butter knife to unscrew our latch. This unfortunately did not release the padlock so it was still holding the bolt in place. Then the 2 guys tried again to just break the lock with a couple stones. Our lock and our door are a little more beat up than they were before, but still no luck. The guys left and Viola, my neighbor, got there and took the screws out of the latch again (we had put them back in). By wiggling the door back and forth and bending some parts of the latch and bolt, we got my door open. Viola is pretty awesome. Then I put our latch and everything back on and unlocked the lock (my keys were on my desk chair). I was really impressed with myself.
But…back to this morning. I woke up at 6:20 and was ready to leave at 7. A couple days ago, Viola talked to someone she knows at a salon in town about getting my hair braided and agreed to take me down there this morning. We went to breakfast and then walked down to Mukono. Viola left me and I sat from about 7:30 until almost 4 getting twists put in my hair. They add fake hair when they do plaits (braids) or twists so I have about 4 or 5 times as much hair as I did this morning. I was really sick of sitting after a while and was almost crying when they put the last few braids again, because they have to do them tight so they were pulling at my hair pretty hard. And after 8 hours, my head got a little sensitive. The fake hair is stiffer than real hair and I’m still deciding how much I like it. I used the toilet in the chapel on the way back because I’d had a half liter of orange soda. It was delicious. I had 2 doughnuts and tea this morning and a few wafers while I was getting the twists, but that’s all I had. After I got back in my room, I had 2 plain biscuits with peanut butter and a few more wafers. They were tasty.
Now I may go take a nap. I have an hour until dinner and hopefully a date with Rusty afterwards. The Internet’s not working right now, so I may be online dating by the time I get this posted. I hope you all are doing awesome and had a good Valentine’s Day! Vaya con Dios.
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