Yesterday we were too tired to enter the city and blog so today we will catch you up.  After having no electricity that night because a wire broke from a falling tree, we woke up and headed into Shilongo for our first full day with a group of interns from Uganda Christian University that are working with FDNC for three months, who acted as our translators.   Along the way to the village we were greeted by children yelling “mizungu” as we passed in the car, which means white person.  For some of the people of Shilongo we are the first white people they have seen, and for everyone else we are still a very rare occurrence and people always stare at us.  Upon arriving in the village we met with some of the executive committee members and divided into two groups, one to do water quality testing and one to walk the border of the village and take GPS points for our maps.  For the water quality testing group we carried all the equipment out to the first site and sat down to take the tests.  By the time we had arrived at the source we had acquired quite a following and we described the tests as we did them.  Everyone was very interested in the 100mL filter e.coli testing and they helped out.  The term ‘bacteria’ seemed to be understood, a very good sign for any future implementation, and some of the leaders asked to see the results when they were done.  For testing we performed pH, TDS, temperature, and conductivity with a handheld electronic tester, which was very easy, and we also used some test strips for nitrates, nitrites, iron, and hardness.  Phosphorus was measured with CHEMets kits using glass vacuoles filled with chemicals and a color comparison.  We ended up getting to three water sources – a natural stream, a hand pump, and an open spring box.  The water from the hand pump looked pretty good, but the other two did not – one had fish swimming up the stream that is created from the spring box.  After these three sites, we had lunch under a mango tree and went into Justine’s house when it began to rain.  After the half hour down pour we went to look at one more water source because the people said it becomes dirty after it rains and sure enough the water was red.  The group that walked the edge of the village returned for lunch from their trek extremely tired because Shilongo ended up being a lot longer and having a lot more terrain than we initially thought.  We returned to our sleeping quarters all very tired and brainstormed ways to keep our bacteria tests at 35 degrees celcius because the electrical box for our incubator is broken.  Some more interesing ideas which we generated were taping petri dishes under our arms or getting a hen to sit on it for a day.  In the end we placed the samples in the incubator and added a hot water bag which was changed a few times during the night.  So far it appears to be working, but we will also be getting a back up electrical box when John McAllister joins us on Monday night.