Suck it up Buttercup

One of our new favorite sayings on our trip has been Suck it up Buttercup - which has now just been shortened to using Buttercup as a nick name anytime one of us starts whining about our "troubles" in Uganda. Read this post and then our next one and you will see why there has been little sympathy for our "tough" times.

Here are the Buttercup moments we've had so far:

- eating white toast and a boiled egg for 39 days in a row;
- white shirts, shoes and our feet permamently stained an odd orange/brown colour;
- random sewage (and other) smells and leaping an open sewer every day en route to the hospital;
- soaping up to discover there isn't enough water to wash the shampoo from our hair;
- not having a toilet seat for almost 3 weeks;
- working in Labour & Delivery, with lots of bodily fluids, and no running water; and
- almost being run over by a Boda-Boda (again).