Long Walk

This morning after Chris finished teaching a very exciting math class we headed off to Masaka town. We usually walk for about 15 minutes then end up catching bota bota. Today, however, we ended up walking for an hour before we finally got a bota bota, which I think is one of the smallest that I've seen. We just took Fr. Mutebi out to lunch for his 50th birthday. We are now going to wait until Fr. Tamale comes into town because we are purchasing some cement so we can help finish the rectory we are staying in. So we will have that to work on for awhile which will be very good. As for the Orphanage, I tried to post about it the other day but it didn't go through for some reason. But we visited an orphanage called Home Sweet Orphanage. It is an orphanage that houses 40 orphans, 6 of which are HIV positive. Needless to say it was a very eye-opening experience. It was so bittersweet to visit it with the kids. Most of the ones that we spent time with were between the age of 3 and 6. They were so happy to see us, it was amazing. But I could help but feel awful knowing that they don't have parents and that some are living with AIDS. We are just really excited that we will be able to help out there. The only problem is that it is kind of far so going during the week won't work out too well. So we are going to go stay and work there for a week in November. So we are really excited for that. Tomorrow I teach and I think we will start working on the rectory. Then on Friday Fr. Poe is going to take us to a school that he help to start, then to a national park. So things are looking so much better and we're really excited to be busy! Peace!

-Tim