Emma in Africa

So I thought uploading pictures onto this thing, but it isn’t. So I guess you’ll all have to enjoy the one that worked. Sorry. I am sending a CD full of pix home to my dad, maybe he can figure it out. xo
Angie and me on a spice tour in Zanzibar, being a tourist owned!

Hi everybody,
I’ve been cloistered in the village for some time and I just wanted to apologize! I want to look at this blog when I’m done and not be totally embarrassed, but dang if Eastern Uganda isn’t the slowest internet ever.
It’s circumcision season in Bagisu, the tradition that makes the Bugisu who they are. And everyone else in Uganda scared of them. I don’t have any videos yet, but I will soon. I haven’t even seen any cutting, but there is a lot of dancing and parading that i have seen, and heard (at all hours). My friend Josh took some video that he posted on facebook from the opening ceremony (that I missed). Maybe you can watch it.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6844294#/video/video.php?v=516794786983
I’ll do my best though, most of Emma’s (my fiance) clan circumcises in December, at his house, so i am hoping to get some video and pictures then.
I’ve been staying way busy, most of the time at least. I organized an outreach testing in a nearby village yesterday, 51 tested for HIV and NO POSITIVES. Pretty good for a country with an HIV epidemic.
9 months left, and I am starting to get excited about the next chapter of my life. If Emma and I can just get through the visa process. We have to go interview at the embassy in Nairobi, yikes! I am totally scared of Nairobi, it is apparently a lot scarier than Kampala and Dar Es Salaam.
I’ll be back with awesome videos and pictures, someday, I promise!