PICTURES!

So by some miracle, pictures uploaded suppper fast today and I was able to do a bunch. The group said it usually takes 5 minutes per picture, but I was able to do like 10 in that time, so consider yourselves lucky!!! I'll just caption all of them up here, and then you can go through and look at them all...

1. Downtown Dubai... such a sweet city!
2. Our safari group with Beki, our guide
3. A LION!!! We were SO close.
4. Me in our safari jeep, with a whole pack of lions behind me :)
5. Some sweet wildlife in the jungle
6. Safari Sunset
7. Natalie and I showing off our awesome hiking gear. They told us fire ants would eat us if we wore chacos, so they provided us with some high class gear in replacement.
8. Finally back to Lugazi!!! Yesterday (Tuesday) we worked on an Adove Stove for St Katherine's Primary School. The kids were SOOO cute! I basically cried shortly after this picture was taken. Sometimes I just can't handle the cuteness!!!
9. DJ and I stomping through the mud to make the clay adobe for the stove. It was an intense morning, but now the stove is almost done!
10. Yesterday afternoon a few of us went and toured the local hospital. SADDEST THING OF MY LIFE. Regardless of the terrible conditions, the people were so nice to us and were so excited to have us take pictures of their families (we promised to bring them copies, since most probably don't have any pictures). The brand new babies in the maternity ward were so adorable! Going to the hospital was realllly hard.. I had to push back tears a lot of the time because I felt so helpless being surrounded by SO much suffering. However, it really just gave me renewed enthusiasm for why I am here and gave me some ideas for some new projects our group can do.

Being back in Lugazi is great and I've tried to just jump into a few projects to get the hang of things before 2nd wave group leaves next week (our group of 25 is going to cut down to about 13). I truly love it here so much and have already met so many great people. They continually express their gratitude for having us here to help them and are anxious to find ways to improve the lives of the people in their community. It is nearly impossible to find selfishness among these people-- it is all about how to help us, how to help their families, and how they can help their community, and Uganda as a whole. It's really neat to see that sort of communalism.

Also, the food here is amazing so far. I haven't gotten sick at all yet (knock on wood!) and jetlag didnt really phase me. So far I feel very lucky everything has gone along so smoothly, and am just happy to be here. Here are the pictures... enjoy!

xoxoxo