Hello Friends, I'm finally contributing to my blog. Things are good here. I have now been here for 8 days. I have to admit the first three days, I was asking myself "How much would I pay to be on the next plane home?"...and it didn't exactly start out smoothly either...The first day at school, we had to take a little girl to the hospital, so I got to experience a Ugandan hospital...ugh, I was sitting in the waiting room for 2 hours with dozens of coughing sick people. Hypochondria set in quickly and I developed several symptoms immediately. During our visit, we saw a girl come out screaming (her mother died), and a lady my director (Liz) knew came in with a snake bite. Of course, no representative from the hospital was there to help her in, so Liz had to help her in. The good news--the girl we took in is doing much better!

The next day, we learned that the lady with the snake bite died (btw, I've been ASSURED that snakes are not that common, and I haven't seen any yet). So, on Wednesday, we went to a burial. People from the whole village were there.

More to come....