hello! i hope everyone had an amazing thanksgiving, ate lots of turkey, and had fun shopping! last thursday for thanksgiving, this guy in bungoma invited us to his restaurant for his thanksgiving buffet he fixes every year for any americans that are in the area. i did not have my hopes set high for this meal, so i was very pleasantly surprised when the food was delicious!! i was expecting the same food i've eaten everyday for the last 6 weeks. but NO it was gooood. he even killed a turkey for us =) he also tried to make his versions [View Full Entry]

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I'm usually not a big fan of expressions a la 'you haven't lived when you haven't done this or you haven't done that...'. 'You haven't lived if you haven't hurtled yourself down a mountain at breakneck speed, killing a few innocent passersby on the way'. 'You haven't lived if haven't gone hitchhiking around the planet and almost killed by some Congolese soldiers high on heroin'. And you think: 'I lived plenty, thank you very much, just last week I engaged all of my Facebook-friends in a gigantic vampire battle!'. But, guys, I have to admit, YOU HAVEN'T LIVED IF YOU HAVEN'T [View Full Entry]

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Blog Entry: October 28, 2009/ Nov. 2nd It’s been ages since I last wrote! Things have really picked up here at work. Lindsey and I have had the opportunity to go out into the field more and we’ve expanded our health communication project. I think one of my favorite trips was visiting the beneficiaries of TASO’s “Trickle Up” program, which funds agri-business start-ups for HIV positive patients. We met one woman who had been given money to begin selling fruit at a roadside stand. She showed us how she invested her monthly profits back into her business because o [View Full Entry]

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yes mom and dad, i went to Uganda this weekend. =) and i'm now back in kenya safe and sound! but seriously, this weekend was probably one of the coolest things i've ever done. i went white water rafting on the Nile! i can't even begin to describe how amazing it was. first of all, we were in Jinja, Uganda and it was soo beautiful! ...huge hills, so much green, trees and flowers! we went through this company called the nile river explorers and there were quite a few people going rafting on saturday and also lots of kayakers . we [View Full Entry]

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Greetings all, SO as the title states, I have a little over two weeks left. So time has passed both slow and fast. I have become quite acclimatized to this place. I can preform all the duties in the lab with ease and don't feel out of place at all here. They are such welcoming people here...I would definitely recomend anyone to come here to Uganda. I feel as though maybe I left a few things out for the people at home reading these. Things like what are the children like here (for those whose children are also reading this), the [View Full Entry]

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here is some photos, hopefully they will load and be visible... [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone So this Saturday I went with some of my Hospital mates to Sipi Falls. Its 45 min drive outside of Mbale heading towards Kapchorwa, at the base of Mt. Elgon. The trip was sensational. We walked for over 4 hours touring the area and looking at the 3 falls. The first and largest water fall can be seen from the Lodge where started from. We got some pictures at the lodge over-looking the cliffs towards the water fall. It was massive. We headed over to the second falls. It was truly amazing. There was a cave behind the water [View Full Entry]

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Back in April, I made my first trip to Jinja (east of Kampala) to see the source of the Nile River. I went with my students on a geography field trip and had so much fun! Of course, the source of the Nile is Lake Victoria- which is unusual since a lake is normally not considered the source of a river. The source is normally the major river that feeds into the lake. But for Lake Victoria, there is no major river that feeds into it. So the lake itself is considered the source. We took a 2 hour bus [View Full Entry]

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Hello All, So everyone knows i'm in Africa but maybe not who I came here with. The group I came with is called CURE. They are an institution (many) that deal in Pediatric Neurosurgery (at least this one here in Uganda does). If you want to read more about it go to... www.CUREinternational.org or just typr in CURE international in a search engine and it should show up...so everyone take a look at the sight...you can see a few photos on there and I'll try to post some myself later...this is a great facility as well and the people are very [View Full Entry]

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Hello to All, well one week is down and there are to go...but who's counting right!!...haha...most of you know I am because I have a beautiful girl waiting for me back home... Ok to the real buisness...my first week... Its been really great here in the lab this first week. I have become more comfortable with the practices going on here. I think i posted about the blood collection in my previous post but now i'm alot more comfortable around it and confident in taking samples from the patients. It is challenging as most of them are small children. I guess [View Full Entry]

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