Keeping Busy in Kampala
The pace of life for us in Uganda seemed to pick up a bit once we returned from our October travels to Northern Uganda. Z returned home to a 6-week stretch of school that included quick deadlines to complete a series of summatives for school, which can be described as similar to mid-term exams. The 6 weeks were shortened to just 5 weeks due to national efforts to address the Ebola outbreak, so that meant the week of final exams for the term was pushed earlier to this past week of November 28th. Mid terms and final exams, oh my! 😱 We believe adapting and developing these study skills will be beneficial in the long run, but it sure is baptism by fire with a lot of growing pains and stress for Z. I have been keeping busy with a bit of teaching, the winding road in pursuit of local ethics approval of my research, writing and reading, connecting with a fellow American who has a 5-year research program here in Uganda I might contribute to, and a field visit to a fairly rural area with a U