You aren't supposed to have favorites but this is Simon and I think he is one of my favorites!

This is me and Flavia who is 2 and she just stayed hugging me during playtime for 15 minutes! She is so cute :)

Just thought I would share some pictures..more to come hopefully!!!

What Ive been up to!

I am still alive and doing well, sorry the update has taken awhile. Pray that we can get the satellite fixed and running so that i will have access to the internet. I thought I would let you know that I have now started teaching 1st grade math and it is going very well. There are 16 kids but little resources. I have impervised and have learned to talk SLOWER and use less words because they just don't understand. I am also coaching *tutoring* 3 kids MWF and that is going pretty good. They have only been at the village for a couple of months and came knowing no english and no luganda and they had never been to school. So we are starting with basics but they are very smart and love learning so they are picking up on things quickly. In the afternoons I go up to the girls school and help with prep work that teachers need for their classrooms or with the girls projects. It has been alot of fun and I have learned alot of things. I have been to see the source of the Nile and went to a mexican food place and it was surprisingly good. I have learned to eat the Ugandan food or at least fake it in front of the kids. However you can get pretty much anything so I am able to eat at the house if I am not full. So I am not wasting away! Something I read recently that you should all think about..'The difference between an ordinary Christian and a deeply committed one is that the ordinary Christian gets emotional, while the deeply committed Christian gets involved.' If you aren't involved someway just think about what you can do to get involved! Hope all is well for you all and let me know how you are doing!!

HELLO everyone!!

I have arrived and life so far has been very interesting! I saw an eye full just on the ride from the guest house I stayed at the night I arrived to the Rafiki village. There were people EVERYWHERE, the unemployment rate is at 80%. There are NO driving rules here you can pass at any moment and your life doesn't really matter when you are driving. I guess survival of the fittest in a way. The markets expand onto the road, the shacks are falling at the way side and the poverty is just walking the streets. Once arriving at the village though I was overcome by a peace of safety and sercurity. There are guards that are there 24 hours a day with no rest, and you feel like you are in a totally different place once inside the gate. It is beautiful with green grass, beautiful flowers and birds singing all the time. Uganda has the 2nd largest bird population in the world, next to Kenya who has the 1st largest. It is really neat to wake up in the morning to the birds singing their chorus. The overseas staff here are all wonderful and I see a real realtionship that can be built by being here for this length of time. I am also getting closer to another mini missionary Barbara that I met at training, she is amazing and very inspiring with her story and her purpose of being here. Life is great so far, please just pray for me, my malaria medicine (the second one that I am getting) doesn't not work here in Africa. So I am trying a new one starting last night, so pray for NO side affects and that I don't get malaria in the meantime!!