Mbale Town

Hi All,

It's another beautiful day in Mbaletown as the locals call it. Today, Connie, Amanda and I trekked down to the hospice to continue our alphabatizing of the patient books. Dr. Jan likes to have it done about every 6 months, and Amanda came up with the idea of putting labels in the upper right hand corner so the staff doesn't have to pull out a whole section to find one book. Hopefully that will reduce the amount of chaos.

Dr. Jan called us while we were there because the goat at home was having her baby, so if we wanted to come see we should leave now, but Amanda the task master made us finish the box we were working on before we could leave. It takes 30min. anyway to get home, so we probably would have missed it, but she is having twins and so far has not delivered the second one, so maybe we will get to see that one.

Simon decided today that the goat should be slaughtered and called Amanda out to take pictures of the event. After the blood had drained out he called for her again to take pictures of the skinning! I gave her my camera for that since she doesn't have a digital one. They looked like they were having a good time skinning it! =0) I didn't watch personally because then I probably won't be able to eat it tomorrow for dinner. They bought the goat in honor of Connie's coming (she sends support for his daughter to go to a better school). I'm sure it will be quite a feast tomorrow.

Wednesday we are going out to the village of Soroti to spend the night and meet the people that Simon and Jan work with. Sounds like an adventure. We have to take public transportation because both of Jan's vehicles are on the fritz.

Well, my time is about up so I will write more later when I can.
Love to all
Eryn