Monday Night

Hello

7:30 AM tomorrow morning (11:30pm Missouri time) the handshake will officially start. At that point we will get into our different groups and start working with the local organizations. I will be on the video team so I am quite excited to learn about it all.

This evening we had our welcome dinner as everyone had finally arrived (except for one person who emailed saying he would be here at 11am, but we have yet to see him....we are guessing he is staying in a hotel for the night). During dinner one other volunteer showed up and we are now going on 4 Americans.

We went to a hotel up the street for a proper meal. They had a whole buffet set up with wonderful different foods which I probably would have never ordered off a menu, but turned out to be delicious. It was also one of the supervisors birthdays so we celebrated with cake beforehand as well as some squash juice and vodka. Squash juice is actually pretty decent, who would have guessed?

I am happy to report I have switched mosquito nets tonight and I am already feeling better about tonight's sleep. I will be able to move and breath! The bugs here are quite amazing. You just walk through swarms of them throughout the day, but by late evening they all start to die. They have less than a 24 hour life expectancy. They hatch early morning and die at night, quite crazy to think about. If I post some pictures soon I will try to post one where you can see the thousands of bugs. When you awake in the morning there are just literally thousands of tiny dead bugs on the ground. The local Ugandan women spend all morning at UWEC scrubbing the floors to get rid of all of them, just so it can happen again the next day.

Well I am trying to post a picture of a vervet monkey and her baby that were inches away from me yesterday but am having little success. Internet speed is quite fast at the moment so not sure of the problem. Alright I give up for now. It's a really great pictures so I will keep trying later.

Leslie