Arrival

Our group has arrived here in East Africa! Classes began this week, and seem to be very academically intensive. Bugs have been appearing around me in many places, and I think that I would have been very discouraged by this, had we not sang at community worship this afternoon "Let all that is within me praise the Lord...":) Our campus is placed on 80 acres, net to the town of Mukono (meaning "Hand" in Luganda), and each day is an adventure on our walk home as we move through Mukono by dirt roads, and many joyful children. I room with David, one other USP student from Illinois, and we've had fun playing cards, visiting neighbors and distantly related relatives of our family. 

Many other things have been happening- I suppose that this could be described as coming into contact with the flesh and bone of Uganda, and I think the Lord will be showing us many  hard realities about certain living conditions in the coming weeks.