snakes on a plane...

or just in your backyard =)

So yesterday morning I went outside to talk to our day guard, Samuel. He told me that a snake had shed its skin and left it in our yard. I, of course, had to go and investigate. If you ask me, it's pretty cool, considering I've only seen stuff like this behind glass walls at zoos, museums and whatnot.

like a good Acholi woman

Yesterday I was walking home and saw one of our ladies, Betty, getting ready to strap her baby onto her back to go home. I was joking around with her and told her that one day she should teach me how to carry babies like an Acholi woman. She laughed, and the "one day" turned into "today."

As you can imagine, I was completely shocked that Betty was so willing to drop everything (literally - baby included) to teach me. So, after about 5 seconds of instruction, I lifted her son up under his arms like she showed me, swung him over my back, and then tied the sheet properly to keep him secure. It was great.

My response? Who needs baby strollers when you can carry a baby like a good Acholi woman?

Sipi Falls

some pictures I just got from Carlie from Sipi Falls that I wanted to put up. It's over a month late but better late than never, right?

creature alert!

a recap of some living creatures i've encountered in the two and a half months i've been in Gulu:

h20...the stuff of life

we have been without running water at our house for officially 2 weeks. I just wanted to say that. The end.

krochet kids taking over the world!!!

Okay...maybe not the world, but we are definitely growing as an organization!

Bing decided to make another commercial for us (they made one for us a few weeks ago that aired during the X Games)!!!

Our commercial featured this past week during the season finale of America's Got Talent, and aired on NBC, TBS, and some other channels. Maybe you saw it? We got 20,000 hits on the website because of the extra publicity, and over the past two days 950 purchases were made online. Our hats are completely sold out, and so we are increasing production by 20% to meet demand.

It's all pretty exciting! I hope you support our organization as much as I do! Check out Krochet Kids International if you haven't already!

Watch one of our commercials: Bing's Krochet Kids Commerical