I'm totally in Uganda

Yes! I'm alive! I'm in Iganga now but I have not been able to email as the power has been out since I got here. There is this one place with a generator that we are finally using. It is SUPER slow, but at least I can have some contact. I have not been able to check my messages yet, though. Sorry!

Okay, these first few days have been quite busy. Terra met me in Kampala and the next morning while she was out at the ShopRite she met a street boy named Waiswa. Usually there is no point with street boys and you feel bad but they are so unwilling to be helped. This one seemed different though, and he really wanted to go to school. So Terra decided for the first time to bring this guy with us and see if we could help him. He came with us to Iganga and we had some of the teachers interrogate him to find out what his story was. He was such a helpful and polite boy, but when it came to giving us the details about his life, he would not provide and he refused to go to the police with us so we could get proper documentation. He said they would beat him, but he still seemed like he might be not telling us something. In the end we took him back to Kampala and we said he could think about telling us more and we'd go see him on Saturday again. So we hope things can still happen with him.

Something SUPER exciting is that it looks like a construction company here is going to pay for all of the beds for the orphanage, desks, chairs, solar lights and food for 5 years!!! I'll keep you posted. We're meeting with the guy again tomorrow.

Finally, a sad thing is about my friend Isaac. He was my guard at Samuel's house and my friend and companion for the whole time I was there. I went with him to meet his family and we became quite close. I just found out that he had a bad boda accident (motorbike) and his face is pretty disfigured. On top of that, his wife has left him and his only child, baby Gift, died. So he is really struggling and it just breaks my heart. I'm trying to find him, but he has slipped a long way down and is hard to trace. I hope to find him.

Okay, I should let Terra use the computer while she still can. But this is mainly to say that I'm here, things are happening, and I'll try to write more when we get power back! Pleeeeease. I miss power. Bye for now!