The famous international speaker

Tuesday July 5^th

Ann became a famous international speaker today giving a short message on Psalm 121 a the start of the mission that is taking plce in the village over the next few days There were several hundred listeners who gave her warm applause at the end! She also taught a physics practical lesson on the refraction of light and the pinhole camera. She hadn’t taught many physics lessons before and the last would have been over 30 years ago The only slight problem was, to her horror the prism was knocked off the table so it produces rather more refraction than it did before!

This is the stage Ann spoke from It visibly rocks when the group are singing!

The hospital was down to 4 qualified Doctors today as Rachel was ill and wasn’t working. Somehow everything seemed to get done largely thanks to some final year Ugandan medical students who are on attachment here before starting work in various places in August. One of them called Simon is from a village only a few miles away and his parent still live very near so hopefully in time he will come back to work at the hospital which will be a real bonus as he seems very willing and competent.

I spent some time with Benson the project director discussing a number of issues I’ve picked up on since I’ve been here and spent an hour typing a detailed report of our discussions so I do hope that that will be help in the months ahead.