Lots of pictures for everyone to see :)

Ahhh- Sweet life. Almost two weeks here and I'm so happy and content. Last week was settling in time and this week I'm starting to get down to work. Each day at a different time, I'm meeting with a different grade level to do my PACA (Participatory Analysis for Community Action). It's pretty fun meeting with all of the girls doing little ice-breakers (what will my life be like when I finally have a real job that won't begin with an ice-breaker?). They seem receptive to me, but they keep reminding me that I'm 'a white', so that's interesting. Some of the tools that PACA uses are drawing community maps, doing daily schedules, seasonal calendars, and priority ranking. All of the information you receive comes from your community so that you're not attempting to implement any programs that don't match what the community needs or wants. It's really interesting work, and I'm learning so much. For example, by having them do their daily schedules for the school day and the weekend I was able to find out when they have free time on the weekends for me to do a program with them, and through the community map I learned that they are doing pretty much everything in their dorm rooms. Eating, sleeping, studying, etc, but they really enjoy the green area in front of the school, so hopefully we can do something to pull some of their daily activities out there and break up the massive amounts of time they spend in their cramped dorms. All of the pictures I put up are from training and I haven't had much time to take any while at site, but I'll try to take some of my house and the school (and me) and put them up soon. Also, sorry, but I still don't have a mailing address. It's making me crazy because I want to get letters from home so badly, but the post office is pretty far away and I keep forgetting to bring enough money or passport pictures or other random things the teller decides I need to bring that day.
I'm living very well and last night I even made homemade lime chips! I'm having such a great time cooking new things here and experimenting. I made guacamole last week and shared it with my neighbors. They freaked out; they loved it so much, even though they keep calling it kwachamoolia. Oh well... :)
I hope you enjoy looking at the pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them.
Blessings and prayers from Masindi,
Tor

Tess is so pretty.
The other day I fell down looking at the sky it is so beautiful.

Melissa and I.
Greg David and Heidi mixing mud and grass and clay to make an oven.
Laura and I not mixing mud.
I wish blogger would let me post more than four pictures at a time... Sarah is adorable.

Mumu day for Tess' bday

Zac

My house in Uganda.

So happy to have found good people :)

Frog on my notebook

Pictures!

My Ugandan homestay family!
Visiting the Buganda kingdom tombs.

Pictures!

My beautiful field I was blessed enough to walk by everyday during training in Wakiso, Uganda.
The US Ambassador to Uganda.
Mark helping out with the guacamole.
Greg eating a live white ant.

ST. THERESA!!!

Loved ones,

Praise God!!! I have gotten my assignment, and tomorrow afternoon I'll be going to Masindi, Uganda to St. Theresa of the Child Jesus Secondary School for Girls. Oh, hello, Jesus, I think you heard me praying to you and you pretty much responded with a big old Y-E-S!!
My first site was a pseudo-disaster, but it didn't help that I had reached maximum dehydration at the hospital the day before I left and almost lost one of my dear kidneys.
My supervisor's name is Sister Daisy and she is positively wonderful. She laughs with her whole body, and she is so on fire with God's love. I had a rough go a few weeks back, and I'm happy to say that Africa, Uganda, and this beautiful school with 700 girls will hopefully be my home for a long time.
I'm about one kilometer from a big town so I'll be able to walk in and go shopping for food and other stuff.
I'm really really going to miss the 23 other trainees that made it through with me, but they are all going to be amazing at their respective sites and we'll be visiting each other often.
Thank you all so much for the letters, e-mails, facebook messages, etc. I cannot tell you how much it means to hear from you.
The language I've learned is called Runyoro. About 2 million people speak it. I was the only person in my class to pass our qualifying test. I studied my butt off, and I'm pretty proud to be able to say that I passed.
I'm praying so hard for all of the folks back in the states, and I'm quite looking forward to hearing from you!
Mukama Akume Omukisa! (God Bless You!)
Love,
Tori