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!!