Potty talk

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I don’t have running water so I share this pit latrine with my two neighbors. It’s on the left. The door on the right is for bucket bathing, although my stall is in my place

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This one is kind of fancy because there are raised pads to place your feet. “Short calls” are easy for the guys of course. For “Long Calls” you squat like a catcher, reach down your front to the back and carefully pull the back of your pants forward. Make sure to secure your cell phones and wallet! Must be a real pain for women to gather their long skirts. My sister had the idea to convert a pit latrine into a western toilet by cutting a hole in one of those plastic chairs and taking it in there. The foot pads here would interfere with that plan however. It would also be too far from the hole. We had western toilets in my language learning site I would try to use, but now I don’t really have a choice. I have gotten used to it.

When I was growing up, during movies and TV shows my mom would often bring up the practical reality that the characters never seem to have to go to the bathroom. (King Kong on the Empire State Building “What if he has to go to the bathroom?”) Certainly there are some interesting aspects of going to the bathroom in Uganda, so mom, these next photos are dedicated to you!

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One of the first things I read in another PCV blog after my invitation was “In Uganda, every fart is a gamble”. That is the sorry truth, made worse if you are crammed in a taxi. You never want to be caught without toilet paper. Some pit latrines in some places don’t have it. A PCV showed me this trick. Take a bunch of toilet paper, roll it up, and put it inside the cardboard roll. I always have this in my back pocket. Also a source of tissue for the occasional runny nose I have gotten here.