From my journal:
7:30 AM: I love hearing the rooster crow in the morning. It's gotta be the best alarm clock ever!!
10:00 AM: We are on our way from Entebbe to Jinja. The road is so bumpy!! It is like the church road in Grande Prairie during a rainstorm (minus the water). And I'm pretty sure it is like the highway... It is not very easy on the bladder... :D The street sweepers here are basically women with brooms. Its really neat.Coca Cola is a big thing here. All the stores advertise "Ice cold Coca Cola" or else they say "Live on the Coke side of life". The animals here run wild. Like there are chickens and goats and cows just walking down the side of the road. Also, there are a lot of little kids. They tend to each other. Like the older ones pack the younger ones around and they all just play together and work together. The women here are very decent. They pretty much all wear dresses and skirts.
2:00 PM: We are out for lunch at a restaurant. There is wifi here so everyone is texting and emailing their parents. Except me of course. I'm texting my siblings. This morning, we got to the church at about 10:30. We were only like a half hour late. Dad preached on "Is Anything Too Hard For the Lord?". I kept almost falling asleep. WHich was really bad... I think it was because its like 4 AM at home and stuff. But we actually are adjusting very well. It was EXTREMELY warm in the church though. We sang "Lord I Lift Your Name". Sharon sang the first verse and I sang the second. The bathrooms at the church are just holes on the ground... [the bathrooms here ended up being the best bathrooms at any of the churches we went to] Kinda gross but its not as bad as I'd expected. But being here really makes us appreciate what we have at home.
Later: After lunch, we all went outside to put bug dope on and somehow Esther W managed to strike up a conversation with the porter at the hotel. I think she asked him how old he was or something. Anyways I went back into the hotel to get my backpack and by the time I got back, he had given her his email. Anyways the boys were all posing with the policeman who was guarding the hotel and I got a picture too. Then it was time to go back to church. All eight of us girls piled into a 'buckey' (as Hannah calls it) with Bro Emmanuel. Dad preached about "The Engraver". We attempted to sing "Master of the Wind" and butchered it so badly :( Nobody remembered where Bro Kim took his breaks so we were very disjointed. And we all were fighting sleep in church. It was really hot and our body clocks were all messed up. Jet leg really vacuums..... After church, we (Sharon, Hannah, Junia and I) went to the place we were staying at. That was interesting because we kinda just like walked into the house of people that we had never seen before in our lives and then we have to stay here for the next week. They seem pretty cool though. There are so many people I've lost count. It is all one family though. I know there is a young girl named Esther [Sis Sarah's niece I think], and a little boy named Jesha [their grandson] and then the mom is named Sarah and the dad is Fred. There are a lot of other girls. There is a Shalom, a Lydia, a Edith and thats all I remember. Oh and there is Ruth (she talked to us and made us feel very welcome), Phoebe [Sis Sarah's niece as well] and Ariel [the daughter-in-law, Jesha's mom]. After we got welcomed by everyone and had tea, we unpacked all the stuff from our bags that wasn't ours to take to the church. When we finished, we were just sitting on our beds talking to Shalom and I fell asleep against the wooden bedpost apparently. Junia kinda woke me up so I could lay down. I was out cold!! lol. Then they woke me again at 10:30 and we had dinner.
Jazmin and Laura waiting for breakfast
Sharon and Junia
Bro Kim, Joe, and Ryan
Our first taste of Uganda fruit
Hannah singing into my water bottle
The view from the bed and breakfast
Packing up all our luggage to go to Jinja
Laura
Dad
Esther Waldner
A sign for a school
The countryside
A random bed shop. There were a lot of those.
Where the Uganda Cranes play
"A Billion Reasons to Believe in Africa" Coca Cola
Beth, Junia and Sis Heddy at lunch
Oren, Ryan, and Joe
Jonathan and Elie
The guard
The toilet :D
My first Ugandan friend, Miriam
A chicken in the church yard
Sharon's bed
Hannah and Junia's beds
