this is anoher pic....it is just outside of my room....although, i will be moving tomorrow to the NEW dorms....many students stay there, so i am excited to be in a place to meet many new people. The new dorms house four hundred people...pretty crazy...They were just finished being painted, so we had to stay in the guest house a while....by the way, this is the yard the chickens come to and feed, haha, and the place we hear the rooster crowing right by our window. He sounds so silly sometimes, and forgets to finish his crowing. THey begin their crowing at like 5 in the morninng too...isn't that great. Anyways, that's about it for this pic, and i know it doesn't show a lot...haha. it's been about 80 degrees, and dry season. It's beginning to rain, which is good cause they need the rain badly. WE have to conserve water or we may have to go out and buy drinking water...it's a pretty big issue here. It's amazing that a simple prayer about rain can mean so much here. and a simple answer to prayer is cause for celebration and singing!!

Getting situated

hello everybody, i am attempting to put pictures on here today, but once again, it may not work. Things have been kind of starting here for classes. see, the thing is, classes are pretty relative for the first week. They are not ever sure of the time tables until they get all the kinks worked out for the first week. so...yesterday we went to class and no professor showed up...but, we knew that would happen....it's just the way it is...weird, huh? and the thing is, the ugandans and us will stay for a full 30 minutes until they leave. It is very important to be at class. WHile the ugandans may be more lax when it comes to being on time anywhere else, they are much more on time when it comes to class and take it more seriously. They iron everything, they wear slips under their skirts...which by the way, if any part of the outline of our legs show through our skirts, one of my ugandan friends, adelyn, likened it to us in the US wearing a see through shirt without anything else under it....it's that bad. So, all that to say, it is very strict on that area and we have to be very careful....well, on the next subject, i have met so many amazing people with so many incredible or dangerous or historical experiences, and it's amazing to take it all in yet in a sense pretty overwhelming. I know the Lord is going to teach me so much through this, but it will take a lot of time to process it as well. By the way, on a funny note, there are 2 main weird birds here....the laughing bird and the beeping bird..or as some of us USP students like to call it, the catch phrase bird.....ask me when i get home...i will do my impression of the laughing bird for you. it's really quite hilarious. Other animals around here are the chickens that feed in our yard every morning and evening at 7, then the monkey's on monkey hill come out at the same time. monkey hill is right on campus, about a 10 minute walk away, and they are very cute black monkeys. Anyways, i must go, and perhaps i will post pictures soon ! By the way, thank you soooooo soooo much for alll of your prayers. I can totally see the Lord teaching me every day and I thought about you all yesterday and how the Lord is answering those prayers. So, Truly from the bottom of my heart, thank you.