I am now a Golfer (sort of)

This week is our first week of actual work here at eMi. The funny thing is that it started with a golf tournament/marathon. Every year eMi has a golf marathon fundraiser where people sponsor the golfers and they usually raise upwards of $30,000. One of the board members pays for the course for the whole day and the interns play caddy and golf cart driver. I really enjoy driving golf carts... especially at the slightly offroadish course that we were at. Many golfers aim to do 100 holes in one day. Some shoot two balls on each round in order to get to 100 in decent time. For most of the day I drove a man named Rex around, he is really fun and relaxed and we had a good time. After the intern director, Danna, finished her 100 holes, one of the other interns (Josh) and I borrowed her clubs and played 14 holes. This just happened to be the first time either of us had played golf so you can imagine it was pretty slow and painful, but I did get a few good shots. All in all a fun 12 and 1/2 hours on the golf course and only a little sunburn.

On another note, I found out today that I will be going to Uganda for 3 weeks starting September 22, two of which will be our project trip to Mbale and the last week we will be at the eMi office in Kampala. I am really excited to be there and to see some of the interns that we met at orientation again. Peace out.