Happy Leap Year Day!

We don’t get to celebrate this day very often – what fun things do you have planned?

It’s been a few weeks & I keep pondering what I should update on here. Life isn’t terribly exciting right now. I’m still in Kampala trying to figure myself out, living at the Medair teamhouse and working in the Kampala office about ¾ time. I’ve made some new friends while here which is nice. There’s a family from Austin, Texas that invited me over this week to hang out at their place. They have 3 teenagers and 3 dogs, oh, and 2 guinea fowl roaming their yard. It was great to just be with an American family and get to know them. They are here to start a farm/vocational school about 2 hours north of Kampala for senior high school aged boys to learn a trade. They have quite a vision and plan to be here for at least 5 years to start with, so far they’ve been here for 7 months.

I’m learning the lay of the city better now, got a good idea of where the best coffee shops are in town! I’ve driven around a few times, but the traffic is quite intimidating. I think I’ve mentioned this before, but there really aren’t any laws. You go when you want to go and maybe you yield for someone else, but mostly its just in time to not get hit by the other car. Really, if you’re not aggressive here, you won’t get anywhere! If you stop and wait for the line of cars to go by in order to turn onto a road, the guy behind you will whip around you & make his own way into the stream of traffic. Not sure how I will manage to curb this survival of the fittest mentality when I hit the US roads again!

I’ve received some fun mail while I’ve been down here – thanks to Mom & Dad, Ryan & Maddy, Pam, Janice, Judy, Fran & Rachel! Those little treats & notes from people are both nice surprises and encouraging to me.

The internet is not cooperating much right now for pictures, so I’ll add some more later – bye for now!