a few photos

Well, I am going to try and get some photos up here. We will see. I am currently working with very very limited internet and very little food in my stomach.

Here is an update on what I have been up to as of late. This past week I attended a funeral with one of the nuns with whom I live. This was my chance to see how this is done in Uganda. It was a real beautiful service, even though I didn’t understand a word of it since it was in Luganda ( the local language here in Uganda). I will try to write some more later about it.

Tuesday I left with a Ugandan friend of mine named John to a national shrine commemorating the first martyrs here in Uganda. These were individuals who were converted to Christianity here in Uganda and then when they refused to denounce Christianity, they were burnt alive. These 24 martyrs were canonized by Pope Paul XI in the 60’s. the church is designed to look like the indigenous huts of the time and the interior church is a circle. We then took a taxi- 14 person minibus- to Jinja to see the nile river. The nile river begins in Uganda at lake Victoria. We went to some falls that are just past jinja and we enjoyed some nile special beer while floating on the nile.

I leave tomorrow for Western Uganda to the Bushyenyi province with pastor abel where he will be leading a seminar/crusade addressing issues like community development, Christian values and ethics. Anyways, I hope to write in more detail about my thoughts and experiences later. So long for now.
Mike




Here is the view from my old room. I swear, when it is sunny here everything appears to be filled with color as if it was dusk on a spring day.


Here is the shower i have to squeegee every morning



Here is my old room- mosquito net and all.