Chocolate Milk

I am addicted. I love it. TOO much.
There is this store here called "Gap Co" Which is what WE call, "the Costco of Lugazi." Really it is about 10 feet by 12 feet large and has nothing...but comparatively it has EVERYTHING. It is owned by some sweet Indian men who make fun of me for getting a chocolate milk every day.
Yesterday was a national holiday. HAPPY MARTYRS DAY EVERYONE! So they celebrate this in a random place in the middle of NOWHERE that is technically in "Kampala" but like...super far from the city. In the middle. Of Nowhere. Seriously. So we drive from Lugazi to Mukono yesterday in order to go celebrate this blessed holiday. We get to Mukono and everyone says, "Oh yes, it is a forty-five minute walk." More like forty-five years. Like the pioneer children, we walked, and walked, and walked, and walked. We walked up and down these hills of orange dirt for THREE HOURS. It wasn't too bad...a few blisters but I ran part of the way, cause I'd rather run than walk. It was good excercise, that's for sure! We walked from MUKONO to KAMPALA!!! Do you people realize how far that is? Check a map. It was at LEAST 10 miles. AT LEAST is what we calculated. And by the time we got there, we were coated in red dirt. Like our eyelashes were not black anymore...they were orangey red. Our hair...my dark black braids where ORANGEY RED. Same with the rest of my body. I definitely showered last night...don't worry. So...Finally we get there and it starts POURING rain. So we have to hide under some tarp for like a half hour. We got to eat a rolex and some soda..real sprite! It was wonderful. Then we just hung out, watched this parade, then took 2 hours to drive back in a boda because of traffic. Oh in the parade it was super funny...some priest guy comes up to one of the boys in our group, Matty pants, grabs his hand, and says "Well, this young man!" And we're all like...."yeah?? what about him??" haha. Then he just starts rambling off for a while...it was funny. Guess ya had to be there :)
Then we had chicken for dinner last night. My dearest american friends...DO NOT TAKE PROTEIN FOR GRANTED. Hahaha. We got chicken..like FRESH chicken and it was sick. It was so hard, it took me like 10 minutes to chew one bite. Plus, we bought like a whole bunch and all we had was about a half inch thick by 2 inches long worth of meat. Then a lot of bone. My friends, eat protein for me. Thank you.
I love you like a mango.