Baby wipes: not just for babies

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

Mahatma Gandhi

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It was a pretty routine week, so I don't have a lot to report on. Although I did finish all but one of my interviews! I'm so close!

I'm pretty lucky; between interviews, I get to hang out at the workshop with the coolest kids in Lugazi.

I dare you to find a cuter pair of best friends.

I thought we were going to take a nice, normal, smiling picture. Emma and Elvis pulled this out at the last second. Boys...

Bath time was especially hilarious on this day. I'm still trying to figure out what they were laughing at.

And this little girl came back to visit!

Tina invited us to help out with a service project in Mukono on Saturday. We cleaned up the street that the LDS church building is on. We met a group of BYU students who had just arrived in Uganda that morning. We also met the mayor of Mukono!

Tina is hands-down the best boss in the world.

Because we were already halfway to Kampala, Tessa, Kathryn, and I jumped on a taxi and continued on our way to the city after the service project. Our mission: Western food. It was quite a trek to get there. First of all, I refused to get on the taxi until the conductor promised me 3 times that he was taking the Kireka route to Kampala. Well, guess who's a big fat liar? The man dropped us off miles away from where we asked to be dropped off. Seriously, miles. We asked a police officer for directions to the restaurant, and she told us it was about a kilometer down the road. So we started walking.

We ran into this guy on the way. I wouldn't
ever want to get on his bad side.

We had been walking for more than a kilometer and the restaurant still wasn't anywhere in sight. I thought I was going to pass out from heat exhaustion; it was boiling! Finally we just hailed some bodas and rode the rest of the way there. The things we do for a little comfort food from home! It was totally worth it though. Just look at that beautiful ice cream sundae!

That ice cream gave us the strength to get through the rest of the weekend - our water has been out since Friday night. It is now Monday night and it's finally trickling back on. It has been a long, dirty weekend without water. I don't know who invented baby wipes, but he/she is a saint in my book. He/she probably never imagined three girls in Africa would be using them obsessively as emergency "showers," but I'd say a quality of a good product is versatility. Right?