This week...

So I'm past the half way point of being here in Africa. I feel so much more at home. I no longer fear for my life every time I walk on the street. I don't think twice any more about washing my underwear in my bath bucket after I'm done bathing.

It almost seems like I've always been waken up in the morning by the radio playing and my host dad coming in and asking how my night was before he heads off to work. I realized this last week after coming back from Kapchorwa how much at home I felt. I know what to expect in a lot of situation or maybe now I know not to have expectation for some things. Yet this knowing what to do and how to act doesn't mean that I still don't want to be home some days....

This week there wasn't anything to exciting that happened. But some good things that happened are:
1. Talking to Biz (my sister) on the phone an extra time. Very unexpected but just to make sure that I wasn't kill in the mudslide. hahaha
2. Making shadow puppets with my host nephews when the power went out. They love my head lamp. I wish that I could give it to them at the end but I don't think I'm allowed.
3. Looking up at the night sky and seeing so many stars! They were so bright too, cause every one in the village's power was out.
4. Went to Kampala and drinking some good African tea!
5. Went to talk to a Missionary that was in Somallia in the 50's and 60's. It was really neat to hear about his experiences. One of my favorite things he said was this: " the teeth may occasionally bite the tongue but that doesn't mean that they separate." I really like that.
6. This technically happened last week but I forgot to tell you about it.... Our campus had elections. It included big parades with bands and people walking on stilts! It was great! they even went off campus and the people in Baguju came out of their homes and down the streets to join the parade.
7. Last Saturday we also went to Jinja to learn about an AIDs/HIV support program. We went to a village so see one of their programs for giving people purpose and hope to live positively by doing communities farms. It was so neat! The family that headed up the farm for the clients in the area gave us passion fruit that they grew. It was my first time to eat passion fruit.

Something that I'm looking forward to is this weekend we are going to Jinja to talk to missionaries and to have some free time!!!! SO excited! I think we might go swimming and I think that there are going to be showers with hot water!!!!!!!!!! It will just be nice to hang out with other Americans and not have to worry about school work or other things that go along with living in another culture.

As always, thanks for your thoughts and prayers.