Oli otya?

Jendi. Gwe oli otya?

'Oli otya' is 'how are you' in Luganda. And as you guessed, it follows by 'Fine, thank you. And you?' there. Our summer in Uganda has been great so far, and the first few days in Nkokonjeru tell us that the rest will be awesome, too. Everything is green and blue here-maybe with some red(dirts) added though-, and the pineapple is so much better than back home. David is now addicted to avocados. He knows the price.

We happened to attend the swear-in ceremony of Nkokonjeru's mayor and the town council. It started from 10am in Ugandan time (which is 10:30am earliest but ended to be later than 11am actually) to 5pm, not that we stayed there until the end of the ceremony. It was happy crowd who kept chanting, shouting, and clapping when there was a new member swearing. We had some hard times making our ways out of there, but it was definitely meaningful to be there with town people.

After just setting off the interaction with SACCO and attending the ceremony on Monday, we have made some progresses on focus group questions and divided individual agendas. This has been a nice start off for this summer project, no doubt!