Friday 4 January 2013

Woohoo!!!!!! I made it !!! After years of dreaming I am now in Kampala Uganda. After just under a day I am already falling in love with this country.

My flights were both very good and on the way from London to Entebbe I had no one beside me. That was so nice as it meant I got to stretch out and get comfy when I wanted to sleep.  I landed in London at 1:30 on the second and that is were my first mini adventure started.When I left home I thought that I had an 11 hour layover in London and that was totally fine with me, when I landed however I found out that it was a 22 hour one and that I had to go to a different building to spend the night in terminal 1 instead of 5. That was a bit nerve racking and I got maybe 2 hours of sleep max but in the end I got here and was met by Peter ( my Watoto leader ) and two class mates who I am looking forward to getting to know better.

Right now our permanent home is not ready so we are staying in the Watoto guest house and it is so nice!! The only down side is the bathroom, last night after only just arriving I managed to lock myself in and neither I nor my two class mates could get me out! After what felt like quite a long time they went to look for help and of course that is when the lock finally opened and I was free from my little prison. Though it was slightly embarrising  it was very funny and a good ice breaker :)

Today we had a relaxing morning and then went on a small tour of the city with Peter. I am amazed by the Watoto church! It is gorgeous and way way bigger than I would have expected. McDougal is maybe a little bigger than 1/4 of its size and I cannot wait to go to church on Sunday.

2 comments:

  1. Hope your day at church today was GREAT!! I'm so excited for you:):)

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  2. Ha! The bathroom lock reminds me exactly of what happened to one of my wonderful students when we were on a trip to Durban. And he was 3 floors up. No chance to jump out. He kept making references to Icarus. That's when I first realized that that was one smart, geeky Basotho!

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