June 22, 2009-KAILA

Hey Everyone,

These past few days have been amazing. Yes, I know it has only been a few, but many things have seemed to have popped out to our group.

For me there are some things that really stand out going along the lines of hippos to little kids.

To start was the hippos, they irritated me to say the least. The first day we saw them was at a hippo reserve and I was extremely excited. But every time they came out the water they went right back down, before I could take their pictures. Then at the hotel we stayed at before we came to the IU house, they told us their would be more and I ended up missing those too. I mean who has time to be up at 2 in the morning to see hippos. But in the end I got my pictures.

Then at Lake Buringo we got to see a native village. That trip started out with two of the village men getting in the van I happened to be in. And to be very honest I had to be the happiest person in the van. The two of them seemed very happy as well to see me and Maya. Which was extremely funny to everyone.

Today, we got a chance to go to the Sally Test Pediatric Center. And all those kids were ADORABLE. The little one, I held was named Nikita. She was one of the sweetest kids, I have been around. As I held her in my arms the first time she fell asleep in my arms with a cute snore. The funniest thing was before she fell a sleep, my dad tried to touch her and she started to cry and when he went away she was fine. But as I left and she was awake was the hardest part because as I put her down she reached out her arms for me to pick her up and she started to cry.

So far those are my main things that I have to share.