no small thing

And this is the little house in which they've kindly allowed me to cook my own meals.

Sheesh, this one looks really dark...it's my room, hopefully you can actually see something of it...Just so you know, I've never been known for keeping my room very tidy...it's out that there window that the rooster's domain lies...I think I'm getting a bit more used to the racket and maybe even sleeping through it sometimes!

Looks remarkably similar to a jail cell, eh? My door

The dismal but clean hallway to my room - my room is through that door at the end of the hallway, marked "Private" - but's it's not really private at all because the bathroom that everyone on the hall uses is also behind said door.

and then if you turn around, here's the view from my bldg back out towards Rubaga Road. So nice, isn't it?!

The dorm-ish bldg that I live in. Note the Center's Land Rover on the right...the Catholics don't do too badly for themselves! Those paned windows are rooms similar to mine, but mine is on the back side of the bldg.

This is the view from the back of that classroom/library/icafe bldg.

There's the sign that lights up (even when there's no connection the sign lights up just fine :) To the right of the guy in white is the canteen where I would get breakfast if I were a breakfast eater, and where people can buy snacks and drinks and so forth (including those of the alcoholic variety, I was shocked (and pleased) but haven't yet sampled the beverage offerings - not much for drinking alone, you know?)

The center of the Center so to speak, this is just as you come in the gate - and this is on a Friday when lots of students of various kinds come in for classes offered at the Center. It's some sort of a satellite location for Uganda Martyr's University. The building on the right houses a library, classrooms, and the internet cafe where I sit currently.

Down Rubaga Road - the view of the city from the hospital entrance I use, the Center on the right where I stay.

Up Rubaga Road...the white sign on the left is where I'm staying (aka "the Center" by perhaps only me), the two story building on the right is the hospital (Medical Ward is on the top floor and Surgical is the floor below), then at the top of the hill is Rubaga Cathedral.

So, 2 days in a row now, the internet connection here at the Center has been great! Thanks for praying! I'm going to try to upload some pictures of my temporary home here on Rubaga hill. We'll see how it goes...wuh hoo, it's working...hopefully it's just this screen that makes them look so dark, hopefully they look better for you...It was a beautiful day yesterday as I left the hospital at about 5:30pm after a frustrating day, so I changed out of my uniform into "street clothes" and went around and took a few pictures of the place...Start the tour from the bottom of the list of pictures. I was thinking yesterday as I put these pictures on my flash drive as I sat on the porch of the building I live in, just how thankful I am for this place. It really is more than I could have thought to ask for or imagine!

Today I think I'm going to head into town to see a movie...yep, I'm pretty excited...even if the two movies I'm trying to decide between are The Dark Knight (the new Batman movie which I just read online seems be getting good reviews - but it's still a Batman movie of all things), and Kung-Fu Panda (which I totally laughed outloud at last weekend when I passed by the theater to see what was playing, but then a couple days later Scott Myhre said he saw a preview for it and said it looks really funny...I could go for funny...but really, it's a movie called Kung-Fu Panda! sheesh)