SO I'm back in Chigago

I know it's been a loooooong time since I've blogged. Sorry to leave you hanging like that. I intended on blogging very often while I was in Uganda but in the midst of the trip I realized how impractical it was for me to do that. I found myself choosing between going places and participating in activities & going to the internet cafe to get my nerd on... soooo I decided to make the most of my stay in Uganda and really do my thing and write later. Coming now are the series of events, thoughts, experiences from Uganda in Chronological order so you get what I would have been writing if my typing skills were 3x as fast (as they will be next year when I return).
Enjoy and Comment with any questions. I'd love to answer them.

Much Peace!

Super

My 1st day of teaching

So this is the Sharing Center. Is that Him? Abramz! I recognized him from the pictures online. Abramz is the founder & director of Breakdance Project Uganda. BDPU teaches Hiphop dance & Culture to over 400 youth and adults across Uganda. I'm still on charge to be here with these guys that do the same work I do in Chicago with the the University of Hiphop & Stick and Move. There's so much to talk about like F.E.W. &  the Zulus but it's 5 o'clock, it's time to get started.

Lyantonde here we come!

Early rise for me.

We have some things to do before the 4 hr bus ride to Lyantonde. I had to exchange my Dollars for Shillings, get a mobile phone, a power adapter/converter so I can plug in my American gadgets with out them blowing up. The exchange rate here is crazy. The value of the dollar changes everyday so 2000 Ugandan shillings = roughly 1 dollar. So 50,000 Shillings =  25 Dollars so on and so forth. A meal at a local restaurant cost 1000- 2000 Shillings. A large bottle of water cost 1000 Shillings. Mangos are 3 for 1000 shillings! I'm in Heaven. So I've come to the conclusion that Everything cost too much in US!! Text messages are the way to go here too.

I'm here!

Peace! 

I made it here to Uganda Safe and sound. Today is the 1st day that I've had internet access for a good amount of time & I have a lot to fill you in on.   The Plane rides were very long however they were amazingly comfortable. The air transit was 17hrs in total. First Chicago to Amsterdam then from Amsterdam to Entebbe. I only had 50 minutes to get from one plane to the other @ the airport in Amsterdam so I was power walking through this HUGE place looking for any vegetarian food I could find ... which was no where to be found. I ended up getting a smoothie from this shop where one 12 ounce smoothie was 8.5 Euros! (About 13 dollars) I made it to the plane in the nick of time and sitting next to me on the second leg of the itinerary from Amsterdam to Entebbe was another traveler headed to Uganda from the U.S. She asked, "What brings you to Uganda?". I told her that I'm headed going to teach with Break Dance Project Uganda and it turns out that she'll be crossing paths with Breakdance Uganda too! I said,"word." & she was like "wurrd? What does that mean?" 

I'm Leaving in 7 days!!

Wow it's coming up quick! It just hit me last Saturday like a Splash of cool water on the hottest day of the year. I'm getting more & more charged everyday
My classes are culminating this coming week. Everyones excited about their performances and I'm looking forward to them too. I'll post some videos of the young ones rocking on here later.
Speaking of performance I'm ready to rock this One Man show Friday (TOMORROW!!) and then a few more days till I'm Hittin the Skies.