School has begun (kind of)

I just come from the university where I've had three hours of lectures tonight and it all went well. All the teachers came and in time, almost. You might find this as an odd thing to mention, but trust me it isn't to me. At least not anymore...The school started last Monday, but so far I've had hardly any lectures at all. The thing is that you never know if the teachers will show up or not. Me and my classmates have spent HOURS waiting for teachers that never show up and if they do show up they might stay only for 30 minutes instead of the 1h/2h it's meant to be...To be all honest I don't really know what's happening and what I'm meant to do. I go to the lectures (except for last week, then I did skip classes the other half of the week because I was getting very annoyed with all the waiting for someone that never shows up. And surprise surprise, as it turned out I didn't miss that much, because very few teachers came to the classes...) and take notes, apart from that I dont know what to do. There are no specific books to read and I have no idea where and how to look for books that might cover some of the courses I'm taking. I find it a bit hard to take it seriously, since there's nothing to read and not even the teachers are coming...

This Monday the electricty went out during a lesson. Nothing strange with that, the electricity is gone pretty much all the time, specially when you need it... As we were sitting there in the dark not being able to even see the person sitting right next to you, I (silly Finnish girl) thought that the teacher would stop talking and say that we can't continue. But he didn't, instead he kept in talking and we all had to get out our mobile phones and use the light from them so we could keep on taking notes. A normal day in Uganda.

I like the area around the university. The whole campus is up on a hill, it's big and very green. There are goats and chickens running around on the campus, but I haven't really figured out to whom these animals belong.Most of the school buildings look quite old and shitty, while some buildings are a bit newer. None of them keep a Finnish standard, though...My class room has an old and well-used black board, some walls are painted white while some aren't painted at all and the window has a big hole in it which someone has partly covered up with a black sheet, that is now also full of holes... I love it! :o)

I'm taking it easy, thinking that it will all be ok in the end. I take it as it comes and I will figure out what to do, when and how. Meanwhile, I bum around during the day and in the evening I go to my lectures and meet my class that is full of lovely people. And after that, I'm stumbling back home in the dark to have a beer with my Norwegian friends :o)