Rain! Boda's & Third World Markets... :)

This will be a quick one...

Crystal is feeling much better now. She ran a fever for two days but it back to herself. One of our roommates came down with the flu also, she thought it might be mararia, but it wasn't and she is feeling better also.

On Saturday evening it rained. I have never been so grateful for rain in my life! Gulu feels like its about the hottest place on the planet and so when the dark clouds roll in everyone thanks God. We've had some spectacular lighting and thunder displays this weekend, last night was like a light show in the sky...amazing!

This weekend we walked into town to get our bearings. We stopped at the bank, at Kope Cafe for lunch and went by the outdoor market. More about the market later, but lets just say we stumbled into about 50,000 blackened fish with an odor too pungent for words. Where the fish come from I have no idea, they must be transported from quite a distance. And refrigerated? nope. It was before lunch and Crystal almost lost her apetite, I got her out of there before she started dry-heaving. After lunch I took a big breath and headed back into the market for some vegetables but Crystal opted out the the third-world market experience and waited outside.

This morning we took our first boda-boda. That is a cross between a motorcycle and a taxi. He drove very safe--though I think it may have been because his beaten-old motorbike didn't have a whole lot of giddy-up with the three of us on there (surprising considering all the weight we're losing).

Today we spent more time at the Restore Academy, getting to know the kids and hanging out with the faculty--especially Peter, the headmaster. Many more thoughts on this to come...