A Connection To the Outside World

THE HVO APARTMENT IS NOW CONNECTED TO THE WORLD WIDE WEB!!!!!

It only took me a little over a week in Kampala, months of pre-planning and a lot of ranting and raving but we have it - the internet is here. Hurray! I am soo excited all my hard work finally paid off. Now it's time to get some wine and beer to celebrate.

So, I apologize to you all for not posting in awhile. We had no internet connection in Mbarara and since I have been back I have been sitting at the HVO apartment waiting for the internet guys to arrive so I hadn't had a chance to go to an internet cafe. But now we are all sitting here on the internet in the apartment and it is so great.

So, let me catch you up. Since my posting about Mbarara, we returned to Kampala on Sunday. On the way we visited a national park where we saw Zebras, Warthogs, Baboons, Crested Cranes, Topi, Impalas, Hippos, Waterbucks and Long-horn Cattle. I am sure I am forgetting some animals but in anycase it was sooo cool to see them all in their natural habitat. Much better than in a zoo. We also stopped at the equator, which is really not that exciting it is just a marker where I took a picture of me in both hemispheres.

Since returning to Kampala like I said earlier I have been keeping post at the HVO apartment waiting for Uganda Telcom to install our ethernet modem. They were suppose to install Monday morning but obviously that didn't happen. We also got all the HVO volunteers together for dinner on Monday night, where we went to the only Thai restaurant in town - which was excellent. It was nice to hang out with everyone.

I have a few more things to wrap up here and I think I will be ready to return to the states. Overall I have really enjoyed my time here and would want to come back some time soon. I will keep you posted with anecdotes from the rest of the week.