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So its been a pretty rainy week so far here, but I can't complain. I definitely like the cooler temperatures...my skin can't handle the sun here! We started building a mushroom farm this week at "Mama's" house. She's great. A womens group will be taking care of the mushrooms, harvesting them, and selling them; this will give them a little income on the side to help them out. Along with building the structure, we are providing business training to the womens group to help them handle the money. I'm not so much apart of the business part as the actual building. Me and a couple other girls were in charge of machete-ing some support beams. It was definitely fun to take out some stress on those logs! We are working with this HIV clinic, helping them out in different ways. Tomorrow we will be building them an adobe stove and hopefully starting a mushroom farm at their community center. I actually really enjoy doing the manual work, because you see the results of your time right away, and it's nice to see how grateful people are for the help. This past weekend we went to jinja where some of us BUNJEE jumped and most of us rafted the nile. I did not raft the nile because it was too expensive for me..but apparently it was quite an experience. It is Class 6, which they don't even allow in the US unless you are like certified. Peoples rafts flipped lots of times haha it must have been funny to see. I did however bunjee jump and it was great! I'm surprised at how not scary it was; it was just really fun! It's something Ive always wanted to do, so it's nice I can cross that off my list..and I did it in Africa over the nile which is always cool too haha. This week we are also going to meet with a youth outreach group and observe them teaching AIDS awareness to a school so we can learn how to do it, so in the future we can do it on our own. This group is made up of teenagers, all around the age of 18 or 19. They make such a difference in the community, it is just so amazing to see people younger than me doing so much to help those around them. They are very inspiring. Life is great here in Lugazi. We have gotten to know so many great people that have already changed my life for the better. Hope everything is well back home! Miss you lots.