Slide Show!

Here are a bunch of pictures from our trip so far!

Our Hike up to Mt. Elgon and other stuff

One of our first weekends here, Richard and I went on a hike with a bunch of people in our group to the nearby mountain - Mt. Elgon.  It was such a beautiful place, and of course, pictures couldn't even come close to capturing the beauty there.  It was breath taking, and we LOVED it.  When we signed up to go here, I didn't think we were going to be going to such a beautiful, tropical place.  I was really expecting to be in a dry brown area, but it is far from that.  It is lush, green, and beauty is everywhere.  I love Uganda!

We hiked to the top of that waterfall!

The view

Climbing up the natural ladder - it was made out of branches that were lashed together with vines - crazy!

Riding in the back of a truck to get to the beginning of our hike

Richard showing the kids how to whistle with grass

This is from a completely different experience, but it takes so long to upload pictures here, that I am not going to reorganize!  These are the children at the "Child of Hope" Primary school - they are so sweet, and I love them!  We (our group) have been doing a lot of projects with the Child of Hope Organization - they are located in one of the largest slums in Africa - Namatala - which happens to be very close to Mbale.  There is a lot of work to do there, which means a lot of opportunities for us to help!

I LOVE Uganda!!!

Oh man! Where do I begin?? Things have been amazing here and I am having a blast! We just finished our business seminar about an hour ago! It was so much fun! Yesterday we had 55 people come and today we taught 75 youth! Both days were a blast as we taught them basic business skills, goal-setting, planning, etc. The participants were really into the seminars and we were pleasantly surprised to receive much more participation than we had originally anticipated.

Here are some more highlights of the week:
- Getting caught in a torrential downpour and riding the boda boda through it we were soaked to the skin 5 minutes later
- Eating Mercy's delicious African food every night
- Getting everything set up to start my Ultimate Club in the Namatala slum on Monday

My time is running short, but I will post later! Life is amazing here!!