I am more than halfway

So i believe sometime last week was the halfway mark for my internship.  I cannot believe it, it has gone by so fast! This week has been very interesting.  Last week i had a huge deadline and so up until then i had been working on one project.  This week i have been able to get out of the office twice and visit two different project sites.  the first one was an hour and a half away in Entebbe.  It is another major city in Uganda on the shores of Lake Victoria.  The ministry we were visiting has worked with us before, they have already built some of the buildings we designed and now they are wanting to build more of the buildings.  So we are coming in to re-evaluate the site.  to make sure what we initially recommended still makes sense. I went out there to essentially take measurements.  But it was really great to go to a site were EMI designed buildings were actually built!  It gave me a great sense of purpose being here.  They were classroom buildings, that now children can safely go to school. 

Today we went to one of the slums in Kampala.  It is up on the side of a hill.  the hill is covered in mud huts with tin roofs, with only about two people width between each hut.  We were visiting a church in the slum.  it was a very humbling experience, to see how these people live.  How they cannot afford to pay a fee of 200 shillings (about 7 cents) for a jerry can of clean water.  the kids were adorable (as they always are).  And we met some really cool people.  It is amazing listening to all the things God has done in that area since the pastor has been there.  One of the projects the church does is help women make paper bead necklaces and then they sell the beads.  The pastors wife gave me a set of beads for free!! i felt very honored. 

God has shown me a lot this week.  he has really humbled me.  He has also kept encouraging me to pray more everyday.  I hope to have a much better prayer life once i leave Uganda.  God is such a beautiful God.  This past weekend we woke up early to see the sunrise and it was amazing.  Part of it was blocked but it was still really neat to see Gods peace and beauty in it.   It is just so amazing that God would give me this opportunity to come to Uganda and help people.  I am really not worthy to be here.