take a snap!

Natural History Museum

On my way home from Uganda, I have stopped off in London for a few days. Eddie used some frequent flyer miles to meet up with me. It's a very special way to transition back to my real world after the journey to Uganda. I feel quite lucky.

Today is my birthday! To mark the day, I have chosen to post pictures that celebrate photography - something I have loved for as long as I can remember.

I took these pictures yesterday as we toured some of London's well known sites. Across the world, there were more pictures taken yesterday than during the first 100 years after the invention of photography.

Shoot on!!

sponsored students: post secondary

Like last year, Melissa arranged for a lunch date in Kampala with CTT's older sponsored students. Lynne, Natalie, Mel and I so enjoyed our time with these hard-working young people. These students are finally, truly pursuing their dreams, honing in on what they'd like to do for a living once they've finished vocational school or university. CTT has been and continues to be very proud to assist each one of these special young adults. We've known them for many years now and have been impressed by their determination, strength and smarts. We've also been moved by their genuine expressions of appreciation. Not one of them takes this educational opportunity for granted.

Douglas (has received his degree in nursing)

Rosette (attends vocational school for travel/tourism)

Henry (has received his electrician's  certificate from vocational school) 

Billy (is studying business at Makerere University)

Daniel (has graduated from Makerere University in business)

Saka (will soon receive his vocational school certificate in computer technology)

Habib (studying constitutional law at Islamic University)

Nelson (studying computer science at Makerere University)

Samalie (studying journalism at Ndejje University)

day ten

The CTT "Spirit Day" tradition at St. Mary Kevin was created by Team 6 leader Suzanne last December. Suzanne suggested we continue the fun this visit and, in fact, sent us over with A LOT of balloons for the ever favorite water balloon toss. Thanks, Suzanne, for knowing just what the children wanted.

Natalie was at the helm this time around - as energetic and enthusiastic as she could possibly be. We all had a ton of fun, especially the 150 SMK kids who don't get to do this sort of thing very often.

We started with a game of limbo.

Next we played "pass an orange to the person behind you using your chin
and neck, but not your hands."

Natalie announced the winning team of the orange pass. They went nuts!

Then we moved on to the water balloon toss.

Monique and Rose tried to pop theirs by mashing their foreheads together.

That didn't work, so they tried fist bumping it.

Everyone got prizes: silly bandz and a sucker...

and these stickers, which were promptly attached to various body parts.

Everyone was happy and had so much fun!

artwork

Besides being busy with photography, video, music, dancing and being kind/genuine/loving/amazing people, the young painters at SMK found time to produce these pieces. If you have followed/collected work by Brian, Willy, Nicky, Issy and/or Petra, you'll be happy to see some of their most recent work.

Brian (paint on canvas)

Brian (paint on canvas)

Issy (oil pastel on paper)

Nicky (paint on canvas)

Nicky (oil pastel on paper)

Petra (oil pastel on paper)

Willy (paint on canvas)

Willy (paint on canvas)

Nicky (paint on canvas)