Lubaga Road

June 22nd, 2008

We live on Lubaga road but sometimes it changes to Rubaga just because l’s and r’s are so similar in Lugandan. This morning we began by doing some art… Resty and I drew elephants from reference pictures and then Frank and Abdu joined in. We talked about colored pencils and how to  make stronger pigment. Resty came and got us for church and we walked to Lubaga church. She tells us that our tribe paid for the church to be built. We walk and Heather asks me if I feel famous because everyone is staring at us because we’re white. Stopping everything we’re doing to yell a “whats up” in broken english or call us myzungu. I didn’t understand a word of the service but I enjoyed it. tI was very beautiful, decorated with very large arches that were painted pink and green and resembled those popular paisley purses a little bit. After church we came back and had lunch and I drew Jane while she watched, giggling. Then I began to take pictures which segwayed into me lining them up for some more beautiful portraits. The most amazing thing about these pictures is how natural they are. I don’t have to tell them to look or act a certain way. These are my favorite pictures so far… They are beautiful children and I want to take every single one home with me. I spent maybe two or three hours shooting and then got ready to go out to dinner with Cathy. While I was waiting, I just sat and watched the kids played. Resty was leading about 10 of them in the dance Cathy was trying to teach them  yesterday and William was assembling and disassembling one of his new inventions. Parts were taken from an old lock and put into a power strip. I helped him by pulling apart some colorful wires and making a head ornament for him. Norah came over and asked if they could teach me, They laughed hysterically while I attempted it. Then they asked me to teach them ballet, which they had heard about from us the other day. I laughed and said okay, trying to mimic what I thought ballerinas looked like.

In some small way, dinner was a way to thank Cathy for all she’s done for us so we went to Grand Imperial Hotel for dinner and a dance show. During the show they perform dances from all over Uganda, I recognize one from the movie, war dance - the Acholi tribe.

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