Home Stay

I would like to first apologize for not updating my blog as often as I thought I would. Who ever knew that I would be as busy as this. For the past 10 days, I have been staying with a local family here in Arua. I have been learning a lot about the culture and even some language. Below is a picture of a typical traditional Ugandan home if the family could not afford to construct a home.
It's a very neat and simple local hut, where inside there are three rooms: one being the sitting room; one being the storage and a bedroom. The family and I shared a lot about each other's culture. The first thing that I noticed were the meals that we ate. Not so much the texture/physical aspect of the food, but it's how the traditional Ugandan family would treat visitors. Being a visitor/guest, they brought the food to the table in the local hut, and then placed it there for me to eat. Nothing wrong with that picture, until you find out that after they have given you the meal, they go outside to eat with the family. Now there is something different that you do not experience everyday. I asked them why is it that the family does not join me, and they told me that it is part of the culture for visitors to be eating on their own. Later on of course, they joined me because I felt uncomfortable sitting alone to eat. Interesting.