I made it to Uganda after being delayed a bit. I flew from Dubai to Ethiopia and we were only suppose to have a 1.5 hour stop in Ethiopia before continuing on to Uganda. After sitting on the plane for a couple of hours we found out that one of the engines had a mechanical problem and they were going to try and fix it. We wound up staying on the plane for 6 hours until they canceled the flight. After a ton of confusion and frustration everyone was finally taken to the Hilton Hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to stay for the night. On the way there, Catie and I met two students from the University of North Carolina. After talking with them for a while we discovered that they were going to Gulu, Uganda to work with their partnering agency for their GlobeMed chapter. I am helping to start a GlobeMed chapter at CU next year and I thought it was so funny to run into them. We had dinner with them and hung out for a while. It was really nice to be able to hang out with some college-aged peole and to talk about GlobeMed. In the morning we flew into Entebbe and met the other volunteer from the Real Uganda who was on our flight. All three of us were picked up in the airport and taken to Mukono Town to the volunteer house. The drive was fairly interesting. Ugandans are pretty crazy drivers, but it wasn't as bad as I was expecting. There were cars driving on the shoulder and passing each other all of the time and there were people lining the streets. The countryside is absolutely beautiful...everything is very green. It was interesting to drive through different parts and see the vast differences between the haves and the have nots just from the road. When we arrived at the volunteer house we were briefed by Leslie about Uganda and what to expect while volunteering. Then we just hung out with some of the other volunteers and went to bed fairly early. I should be leaving on Monday to go to my village placement in Mpoma to work with the Mpoma community HIV/AIDS initiative. They run a boarding school with 270 students, 120 of which are orphans. I will be teaching at the school and doing community outreach work with them. I am super excited! And the good thing is that I think I will also have time to do some traveling. Catie and I are thinking of doing a safari, a white water rafting trip, and we may head up to Gulu to visit Madelyn and Arelien from GlobeMed. Well I got to go, but I will try to keep you updated as much as possible.