Here, Safe and Sleepy

But let us just quickly redefine both "safe" and "sleepy" for you. For anyone who had a passing concern about our safety, rest easy at night, please, knowing that we live in a fortified compound. We're not kidding. The "guest house" is essentially its own gated community, it is amazing. Everything locks. So yeah - safe! In other news, WE GET OUR OWN BATHROOM. Is that not ridiculous? We are so spoiled. There's even warmish water. The place reminds one of the assistants exactly of a convent (her aunt is a nun, she would know). Very plain and clean, comfortable, two beds and nightstands per room, and many references to God's blessings.

As for sleepy, we arrived this mornign at 10am after 3 straight days of traveling - 72 hours absolutely without pause. What little sleep we did manage to catch was always had sitting up, what with there being no beds, and always at inconvenient times, as we tried to push ourselves 6 hrs ahead to minimize jetlag. Add to that MANY FREE MOVIE OPTIONS on the plane, and our general excitement, and naturally it was a total disaster. We're both so tired we're cross-eyed, but we're not allowed to go to bed until 8pm, so we can sleep through a proper night and be bright-eyed and bushy tailed for orientation tomorrow. If we nap we won't sleep, and then it will go on like this for eternity. But at this point, if we glance sideways at a bed, it's over.

The extent of our French is being pushed quickly, not only by the many lovely people we have already met who can speak only a little English, and our wish to communicate with them, but also by things like this website, which here in Uganda appears in French, making navigating it much more difficult on aforementioned non-sleep.

We're excited to spend tomorrow getting in-depth details about our work here!!! which will definitely be the most exciting part. Once we're settled in this weekend we can change some money into bizarre denominations (500 RWF for a bottle of water!!! (means 1USD)), and sit in an internet cafe and regale you all with our tales of planes, buses and automobiles.