Home Sweet Home
Our courtyard/front entry area. As soon as we open the gate here we are!
The door to the left is the kitchen where Alice has a propane stove. The food is kept here.
The second door further on to the left is the laundry/storage area. Buckets for doing wash are stored here and towels.
Directly ahead are both guest sleeping areas. Casey slept in the room to the left, Michael to the right!
On the right side of the house (the white painted area) is the door to the main house. This is where Sarah and I slept. It has three rooms, and the common area. The common area has couches/chairs, books and games. There is also a dining area for us :)
The place is massive, especially for Ugandan standards. We were so, so blessed. Many of the surrounding homes have minimal furniture and the floors are dirt. We legitimately lived in a Ugandan mansion.
No running water, but man we were so spoiled!
Our side yard area. The pit latrine/bathroom area is just beyond the wall, as well as our shower area. We used buckets to bathe. But we were so fortunate to be able to have a designated shower area, with poured concrete! Many families are not able to have those kind of accomodations.
We also all had wood bunkbeds with mattresses and mosquito nets above our beds. We were told that many adults and children sleep on the dirt floors of them homes. It really made us appreciate all of the luxuries we have been afforded.
I took really shaky videos in Uganda...
but if you want to feel like you're watching from a rollercoaster, feel free to check out my Guesthouse tour video!
This is Jinja. She was our ferocious house cat!! Just kidding. She was super mellow and cuddly and a tiny little thing. But she did eat mice and lizards and all the crawling things outside... which makes her even more loveable. Here is a picture of her out on the prowl early in the morning. She was adorable... and I'm not a cat person.
Rain buckets!
As I mentioned, the people of Bududa and the surrounding villages do not have running water. During the rainy season, which I was there during, those that are able to purchase large drums such as these will catch rainwater off of their tin roofing. Others will us the smaller yellow can (Jerry can) to get water from the rivers and streams, or the occasional well. Don't let those jerry cans deceive you... they weigh so much when they are filled! Yet, these amazing people will carry them for miles to their homes, up steep hills. They have mini-jerry cans which children starting around two years old will carry to get water. Talk about hard workers!!!
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