katie's bday party. also what my house looks like.

Living room! Where all the dinner action happens. Note the lack of TV! Gotta make your own fun in our house.
Bathroom.....fairly obvious
Kitchen/dining room

My absolute mess of a room. We don't have any furniture in our rooms yet other than beds. Sooooo obviously I am excited about that happening soon. Still living out of suitcases for now!

Katie's bday was celebrated on Tuesday at Beth's house. It was superfuntimes. I made a gluten-free cake for Katie! Pras and Ijay were there because it was the week of the Tororo conference! All around goodness.

Katie, Pras, Ijay
Gluten free cake goodness!! Shout out to Beth, without whom we would have had no oven (and no fabulous party venue) and no way to make the cake!

Her house is really, really nice.


We got a little crazy with some indoor sunglasses.

I wish there were more people living in our house so we could have birthday parties more often! I do love a good excuse for a party.

tororo!

Just a few pictures from my first full day.

The road leading up to the hospital; on my way home. The big rock in the background is Tororo Rock, Tororo's "claim to fame." Haven't climbed it yet but it's on my list!

Tororo district hospital - our lab is on the campus of the hospital.

Feena, one of the two little girls who live with us. She is the daughter of our housekeeper, Agnes. She is absolutely adorable, and has a lot of trouble with the name "Jessica" even though there are two of us!

Tonight is Katie's birthday (she's one of my roommates) and we're going to have a house party. Exciting! Thursday is the big yearly science meeting, and there will be a ton of PIs and residents here from UCSF to listen to the talks. Then on Friday, I go to Cape Town. Next Wednesday, to Durban...and then Saturday back to Kampala, and Sunday back to Tororo. So the next week and a half is absolutely nuts. After that things will settle down! And hopefully I can get some work done and start being a productive member of the lab.

I'm actually updating this from lab, since the wireless here is free. The wireless I use at home I buy by data-usage, so I try to keep that for only email/gchat and skype.

For your reference, I am:

7 hours ahead of EST

8 hours ahead of CST

10 hours ahead of PST

So! More updates soon! I am not feeling well today - I don't have a fever, but something is off. I'm not sleeping well so that might be it. Hopefully I can rally for Katie's party tonight.