begining of the week.

1/2/2009
[02 Feb 200912:17pm]

Awoke in Entebbe Guest House (Gorilla Arms Guest House and Tours) at about 7am. It started pouring rain at about 4:00am. We had breakfast at Guest House, and then Mike Enis picked us up to take us to Rafiki Village. The drive here was about an hour and a half, staring out the window the whole time. This certainly is Africa. It looks just like Africa. Uganda is actually a very very beautiful place. Once you look beyond the poverty. It is so lush and green and beautiful. Apparently, the country of Uganda has enough fertile soil, and the proper growing conditions (it's spring all year round) to cultivate enough crop to feed the whole continent of Africa. Can you imagine? Yet, it's so poor.

We arrived at the Rafiki village at about 11:00am. Were settled into our Guest house and shown the ropes. We have a very comfortable house, shared by the three of us and one other girl who has been here for a month already. The house has three bedrooms, each with its own bathroom. Elle and I are sharing a room, Gareth has his own, and so does the girl here before us (I think her names Laura?). We also have a kitchen, living room, dining room, living room, and lounge area. And electricity, running/drinkable/filtered/water, showers with WARM and cold water, wireless internet, a refrideraterrrr...EVerything. Except the electricity turns off occasionally, but no big deal.

It gets light here at 7:00 am and dark at 7:00pm.