If I only had a picture

Today we had an interaction with Joyce (the girl who lives with us) and it really made me laugh. I wish we had a video...There are things living in a developing country that when we were in the U.S. we never thought of. Add onto that the fact taht we live pretty far into the bush. Well today Mary was trying on her Gomes (local Kiganda dress) that she just had made and I was talking to someone in the front room so she gave Joyce the camera to take a picture of her. Joyce was absolutely mezmorized by the video display, the fact that everywhere she moved the camera the picture on the screen changed. I walked in to watch her in total amazement, it reminded me of someone who was on some serious halucinagenic drugs. She just looked and slowly moved the camera and smiled. It is hard to explain but to see it would just crack you up. Joyce had never had a camera like that in her hands, but only seen people using them and never got a close look. So a whole new world was being shown to her and she was just amazed. In a world where ipods are something only to imagine and technology is a distant rumor a digital camera can be amazing. Just like yesterday, Geoff and Toby went to a village somewhere deep in teh bush(that means even deeper than we live) to look for a certain type of tree to make timber and the place we went is rarely visited by white people. So Toby drew quite the audience, some of the children there most likely have never seen a white person. They often will try to come up and touch you if they are not too afraid. There have been times when Geoff has tried to be friendly to a small child only to have them run away crying as they are so afraid of this strange creature. Something to get used to????? The picture is of one of our other girls, Angel carrying Kevin on her shoulders.