Well, I've finally got the internet! I'm staying the night in a town called Kasese, just outside of the Queen Elizabeth National Park in western Uganda. The four engineers, along with Charles, one of the Ugandan construction crew members, are here to do a quick project that began last year. Last year, ACTS was approached by Broadway Church in Vancouver to build a water pipeline to a school that it sponsors here in Kasese. The pipeline was built, passing nearby a community, so Broadway Church agreed to sponsor an extension to provide water to that community as well. So we'll be staying in Kasese just long enough to survey and mark out the pipeline path, and next week, the ACTS construction crew will come to lay down the actual pipe. This past week has been quite a mix of different activities and work. From hiking up mountains, looking for possible water sources, to making inventory of remaining pipe from previous projects, to taking samples for water quality testing from past projects, to going to presentations/celebrations, it has been a busy and eventful week. This picture above was actually taken during the Sunday worship service. It is normal here for people do offer vegetables, or in this case, a chicken, in place of money as tithing. There is an auction part of the service where all the offerings are auctioned off with the money going to the church. Mike outbid me for the chicken, and bought it for a mere $20,000 Ugandan shillings (about $12US). Also customary is for the successful bidder to donate the winnings back to a poorer member of the church, so no, we didn't get to have chicken for dinner that night.
**The internet just cut out so I won't actually get to upload this entry, which is, essentially, about getting internet access. Ironic….
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