Monday May 30th: Today we left for Nawanyago. The drive to Nawanyago took about 4 hours. We were supposed to leave at 7:00, but in actuality we left the town at about 9:30. This is because Americans tell time differently than Ugandans. Ugandan time is very loosely based on a clock and typically allows for a built in grace period of between 1 to 3 hours. When someone says 7:00, you can expect their arrival sometime between 8:30 and 9:00. However, if they say 7:00 sharp, this indicates greater urgency and it is more likely that they will appear by about 8:00. When planning in Uganda, you have two choices, you can get upset by this grievous lack of punctuality, or you can just build the Ugandan grace period into your schedule and roll with it.
The group traveling was the same as the night before sans Debbie and Ron. We went directly to the clinic in Nawanyago, the location where we set up our first working ITW model. Arriving at the clinic felt a lot like going home. This clinic is run by the Catholic Church through the work primarily of nuns in an order called the Daughters of Mary (Bannabikira). As soon as we arrived, Sr. Angela was out to greet us. Sr. Angela is the person we trained last year and the person who has been performing imaging scans for women at their antenatal checkups.
