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all transactions here are in cash and it can get confusing when you have bills for 50,000, 20,000, and 10,000 shillings, among others. the dollar has dropped 13% since we got here, which is awesome, but the good thing is that the current conversion rate makes it easy to figure the amount in dollars. as a ski racer and runner who has done everything in metric, i’m used to converting miles and kilometers. right now shillings to dollars is almost the same as meters to miles. 1600 meters to the mile, ~1600 shillings to the dollar. in case i bought something that happened to be 42,000 Ug shillings, i’d know right away that i’m spending about 26.2 USD.