By the end of the month we’d seen and experienced many different things :
– The Nile and Team Changes
– Support Raising
– Dirt balls – where your skin is so dirty, you rub it and a balls of dirt/skin form.
-Fighting for seats on bus to get to Kampala: words can’t descrie this experience. Really it’s uncivilized the way it works.
– Rides on boda boda taxis (motorcycles) through the city, during rush hour traffic, in a dress, with flip flops and no helmet. (Sorry Dad, it’s way faster and cheaper!)
– Day of prayer and fasting on the church mountain, what a hike that was and with no FOOD!
– Wearing the same set of clothes for 4-5 days in a row and neither you or your teammates question
– Full grown male goat being carried on a motorcycle.
– Kids (& even Adults) put their hands on you just to feel the “white” and then they attempt to rub your skin to see if it will come off.
– Lived in one small mud hut with my 6 teammates, our Pastor and his wife, their three children, kitten and 14 chickens. Thankfully, the goats, dog, chicks lived outside!
– Fighting/shooing chickens off my bed daily
– Praying for my life each time I got into a vehicle.
– Lots of monkeys in the trees.
– Getting fed at EVERY house we ever stopped at.
– Sunday Prayer visits to elderly and sick
– Dozens and dozens of kids following your every move.
– Coke and chocolate to keep us going
– Sleeping every night with headlamp on to fight off the rats.
– Walking and then waiting at least an hour, usually two to go anywhere.
– 12 people in 5 passenger vehicles
– Lots of talk of AIDS problems and prevention ideas
– Rice, beans, & matooke (boiled plantains) everyday, twice a day
– Two teammates with typhoid
– Two with horrible coughs and runny noses due to living in a mud hut. (lovely noises to listen too)
– 120 bug bites in 1 night for Monica, on her arms and neck only.
– Breathtaking views of countless waterfalls.
– Visit and stay at Cornerstone Orphanage
– Hiking up Mt. Elgon’s dirt roads in the dark with no light, in the pouring down rain one night.
– Lots of laughs
– I finished the month off with getting sick the last week with a GI bug and Malaria.
