The trip has begun! To start I flew out of Phoenix to Minneapolis
and my flight was set to arrive in at 6:34pm but my connecting flight to
Amsterdam was boarding at 6:30pm…of course we were late- who planned that?! I
had to run through and barely made my flight. Cami was waiting for me when I
arrived in Amsterdam and we went out to enjoy the city… it actually wasn’t that
cool… the buildings are old and cool to look at but unless you want to smoke
pot… not that many things to do… we went on a boat ride but Cami fell asleep- I
think that adequately describes how exciting it was….then it was raining and
cold so we just went back to the airport.
After another 8 and a half hr flight we got to Kenya where
we met up with the rest of our team. Then another flight to Uganda- after a 5
hr bus ride we made it to Mbale. The ride was crazy! We were all exhausted and
a probably a little delirious. Africa is nothing like I pictured… it reminded
me of a mix of china and mexico. I already love it! It is so beautiful here. I
can’t even described it!
Our house is pretty awesome. We have 4 girls in our room and
have been setting up our mosquito nets in the complete dark (well with head
lamps) because the power doesn’t work in our part of the house.. haha and I may
have had the most interesting shower experience of my life… picture a really
tiny pitch black bathroom lit up by your tiny head lamp, no shower curtain,
dirty weird creepy stuff on the walls on floor…bugs everywhere… turn on the
water and the shower head flew off! HAH so I’m yelling and then my roomies are
trying to come in as I yell “I’m naked! I’m naked!” when I finally got my giant
sham-wow ( backpacker towel) around me- very absorbent!- they came in to see
the damage but mostly laugh at me…. I finally braved the freezing cold shower
as it randomly turned on and off… look forward to that for the next 3 months!!!
ps. they decided that we get to work on devin’s school and I
will get to stay in that village for a couple nights a week! I am so excited to
help!!
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