Today marks three weeks here in Africa, Uganda. The Ames High group board planes tomorrow and begin their journey back to the USA. I board a bus and head to Tororo to spend 6+ weeks at the Tororo Parents Girls Secondary School. The last three weeks have been a nice mix of manual labor, traveling to previous years projects, and sightseeing. This was the third and final year in the Mawalgala village (in the Iganga district) primary school project. It was phenominal to see this village transformed by the school buildings, church, and other support buildings. It was a hub for activity, ranging from education, medication distribution, fellowship, public activities-voter registration booth, and more. Each day we spent about 10 mintues driving on hardtop, followed by 30 minutes bouncing along the gravel "road" to get to
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