Hope Integrated Academy

(This Post is from last Sunday, June 28th. The power went out when I was half way done with it and this is the first time I have been on since then.)

We finally arrived at the school. We got in last Saturday and have been working hard for the last week. The work is coming along very well thanks to the efforts of the first group. We have the trenches dug, pipes laid, and are just waiting to install the pump which is happening on Tuesday. We are hoping to be done with everything by Friday or Saturday (a few days ahead of schedule which is miraculous for this type of work).

We overlapped with the first group by about five days which made about 14 of us total. The first group left on Wednesday or Thursday (it's hard to keep track) which was sad because we had a lot of fun together. As far as working goes, our days pretty much consist of waking up around sunrise, working for 8-10 hours with some breaks in there, and having a lot of fun at night. We had a party when the first group left, and we also have had parties the last two nights. A bunch of students and professionals were at the school/house for a conference put on by Uganda Rural Fund. We got to know some of the university students from Kampala, and we are hoping to meet up with them before we fly out of Uganda.