watch out for the crocodiles...

hello all. it is a little after 8:00 and i am seriously considering going to bed. whoah. today was pretty awesome...i had the opportunity to go to the buvama islands in lake victoria. it took a couple hours of driving before we arrived to the "dock." hahaha there was no dock. the boat was in the water and there were guys who picked us up and carried us out to the boat. they carried the guys up on their shoulders, and picked me up sideways. so...that was interesting. it took about an hour and a half on the boat, which was like a long wooden canoe-ish thing with a motor and a tarp over the top. the purpose of us going there was to check on a building project. there is a school on the island that was started by wgm and the project going on now is the church building. the nurse near the school, jennifer, took me around through the village right near the school. it was very different, even from the houses near kampala. there is no electricity on the island, and very few shops for food and such. one of the guys who came with explained that is very much just survival for them. they will fish and grow food, but there isn't a place to sell it, and they need most of it to sustain themselves. i enjoyed talking with jennifer and walking around. i wish i was better able to communicate with the people, but like many others here they speak a language called luganda. so it was pretty limited to "hello" and "how are you?" and then jennifer would translate some other stuff for me. our stay was short, because we had to be back this evening, but i am very thankful i got to see the island and some of the ministries that are going on there.

that kind of lacked some details...whoops. but my brain is not really functioning right now. tomorrow is going to be busy busy busy in kampala because it is martyr's day (a national holiday in uganda) and i am going to be in the middle of it all! apparently millions of people come from all over to be here. jon (he's working on his doctorate here) is taking me to the shrines and to witness all the stuff that's going on, and he said that people started walking about a week ago to get to kampala tomorrow. don't really know what to expect, but i have a feeling it is going to be crazy. :)