im here!

hey y'all. i dont have a lot of time to write, so please excuse teh typing errors. ive been here for a week now, and ive got teh hang of everything. there are 32 kids at the orphanage and they are all just wonderful. they are so good at sharing with eachother, and at working (saturdays, when they dont have school, they do all kinds of work!) ive been helping with laundry (by hand!), in the kitchen, doing dishes and serving food, and ive been doing fieldwork, visiting sponsored childrens houses to make sure the money the sponsors provide to them is being spend appropriately (for school, clothes, food...). today i was in a clinic with a doctor who saw SO MANY patients, just one after the other. mostly cases of malaria and typhoid and a few STIs. i shower out of a bucket, pee in a hole and have to wash my clothing by hand. its pretty rough, i have a sore back for helping with the laundry and in the kitchen, so ihave NO IDEA how these women do this kind of work everyday. and it is everyday, there are no days off. the orphange food is bland and im at the point where i would kill a man for a pizza (not really). i dont have regular access to the internet, so these posting will be sporadic. i must go now, to catch the scary bus back to the remote village where we live. the sun goes down at 645 here everyday, and we dont want to be caught out in the dark.