NO WATER

When my parent where still here. We were out of water for a week, the reason was is that National housing company was building a house they broke the water pipe and did not tell anyone. So during the time that there was no water my dad and I had to go and look for water. So we took some buckets and started walking we found a place at sold us some water. We then took it home so we could do laundry after the laundry was finished we took that water and used it to flush the toilets. All the water we got we used 2 to 3 times before going into the toilet to flush it. During that time the power went out so for a half of the day we had no water and no power it was not nice. The power company came later that day and put the power back on. The sad part about this story its pretty common that's normal life in Uganda.

The day at the Equator

As some of you know my mom, dad, and sister came to Uganda to visit. Of course when your family comes to visit you have to show them around. So one day we when to the Equator, the Equator goes right through the Uganda, Kampala is about 2 degrees north of the Equator. So we drove 2.5 hours west to the Equator. When we got there I was very surprised at what I saw. There was nothing there, and I mean nothing at all about 5 stores that sell the same things. The reason that I was so surprised was because in America we would of made a huge deal out of it, you know make a day out of it. There was this stand there that you can pour water into a bowl, and on the south side of the equator the water goes counter clockwise, on the line it goes straight down, and on the north side it goes clockwise. There was this place to stop and eat so we went to see what they had and they were selling Rolexs the food there and it cost 5700 ugx I was in shock because normal price was 700 ugx. SO that was r day at the Equator.

Ambulance

As some of you all ready know, the Rotary clubs of area 8 in south Central Minnesota, and the local Mukono club in Uganda, did some fund raising to buy Noah's Ark Childrens Ministry Uganda an Ambulance for their clinic. The Ambulance will be used for many Life saving activities. One part of the deal was that we got to go with on a mobile Clinic duties. So when it was time to go the driver was on another job so I was asked to drive the Ambulance. It was a very nice time it is not a normal Ambulance like we would think about in the western world its a 13 seater Toyota Landcuiser. Made to go off road and deep in the villages of 3rd countries. Its was a lot of fun driving deep in the village.

shot's fired

Now that I am living in the capital city. I thought something like this would never happen. One night I was sleeping and about 3 or 4 in the morning a pack of 3 dogs were barking and howling. Then I got back to sleep with the dogs going crazy I then I heard three gun shots and the barking and howling were finished. To this day I have not heard a thing so I thought that was interesting has I looked for Max.

Getting Robbed

On Tuesday of last week I was drivin in Kampala and I got robbed. I was in jam and the weather was nice it was about 90 so it was not to hot and it was to cold for the a/c. So I had both windows down and a guy comes to me and starts hitting my car and kicking it so I was getting pist off right. So I grabbed him and told him to stopped it, I thought he was just crazy right!!! when I sat back down in my car I turned and saw this guy with his arm in the car taking my phone. So I looked at him and told him to drop it. So he took it and started running so I jumped out if the car and started yelling theive theive while I was running after him. By the way I almost had then about 3 to 5 boda boda drivers jumped him and got my phone back for me. So I gave them 1000 shilling each is about 50 cent as award and a thank you they were very happy and so was I. On sunday I was talking to some of my friends about it and they were just 50 feet away from were I was and we did not even know it how funny.

Corba's

We are under attack as of late with the Corba's. They're attacking a lot of the the workers here. We have been very lucky that no one has been bitten by one. In the last 2 weeks their have been 5 seen and 2 have been in the attack mode from the stories I been told. I have only seen the last one because I almost stepped on it. I was in attack mode on the last corba I tried to kill it but it got away. Lucky Him and I hate snakes very very much.

Delivering

It all started on Sat the 21st when we got the a mother ready to deliver. So a missionary stay home to help out. I was going to Kampala to help a friend.
At about 2030 on sat night I got a phone call from the manager telling me that there was a lady at the gate that is already to deliver. So I told him to let her in and I will call the people that needed to be called. It turned out that she was not ready. So she slept the night in the clinic and the next day she was ready to deliver. So the next evening she was just getting ready to deliver so I went down to take photo’s and to help if I could.
It was the 1st for this lady that one of the reasons it took so long and she was just married at 19 so she didn’t understand the whole process of child birth.
I was in the delivery room during the delivery. So I was the go for it guy and to me that was ok because I believe that you need that guy too. So when it was time I got to see the baby crowning. It was not like in EMT classes that I took on child birth.