Buckets and Bananas and Booda-Boodas, Oh My!

A bucket- who would know this would be the most useful tool to have here in Luweero, Uganda. A bucket for bathing twice a day, a bucket to do your laundry with, a bucket to carry water, and a bucket for your room-> you can draw your own conclusions on what that's for. I'm expected to strip down to the nude in a small cement room twice a day and pour freezing water over me- needless to say, getting out of bed is even harder than usual when you know this fate awaits you. But bathing is very important here expecially as dusty as your legs and feet become. My laundry is done in a series of four buckets then hung on the line to dry- or perhaps for a second rinse cycle, seeing how the weather has been as of late. Water is collected as rain water into a large basin and carried in buckets about a block away, which we collect every evening.
Bananas in every way shape and form are served here. Plantains mashed up is called Matoke which is served at almost every meal. Tiny bananas are at breakfast, bananas mashed and added to onion and tomato is yet another form. There is a variety of foods available- tomatoes, avocados, pineapples are in season now, papaya, rice, maize, beans are all part of a typical meal. My house has a chicken coop and a lovely rooster which sets its wake up call for 4 am. I can't wait until November when the mango trees ripen!
Bicylces and scooters are everywhere here- although most are called "booda booda"s which originated from "border-border" when they would use these as the primary transport between bordering villages. It's hard to remember that, being a previous British colony, the cars drive on the left side of the road. This has caused rampant confusion among the volunteers here, and a small "near death" experience when 5 of us were walking along the right American side, wrong here, and caused a major booda booda pile up. After many apologies in all the languages we're learning, we walked away luckily unscathed.
So as long as I get used to my bucket bath, bananas in every form, and on the lookout for booda boodas- I think I'll manage Uganda culture just fine.