Soga

Um, I speak four, four, five languages.

I speak my native language, which is Luganda, my mother's language, Lusoga, English, um, a little bit of Spanish, very little, and Swahili.

Wow, that's a lot.

That's pretty good.

How do you...

Like, practice their English, me learning Lusoga, which was their language.

That was a big interaction point of like, "Oh my gosh, I can't stop looking at you," which is very uncomfortable.

Talk about being seen.

And if you're able to sort of spin it or you like children, then it can be this really heartwarming experience early on.

As far as adults go, there's a big importance on that culture around language, around greeting.

So one of the most helpful things we learned was enough of the local language of Lusoga and how to greet someone formally, which can take from 10 seconds to two minutes, to show people that we were making an effort.

We were here on common ground, and that was probably the most important thing I learned, actually, early on, is like, how often can I go first here? And what I mean by that is I've got a, a line in the book, which is, "If, if I want something, I have to go first," which I've adopted from my beloved mentor, which is essentially, like in life, if I'm sitting there saying, "Ooh, I wish people were nice to me.