Monday night about 7pm Chris’s team as well as our team
loaded into two Matatus and headed out for the bus station to start our 16-hour
drive to Mwanza, Tanzania, our next ministry location. Getting to the bus
station was breeze it was only a short drive from where we were staying.
Everyone including me seemed a bit nervous arriving. We all
heard about our fellow squad mate who was grabbed earlier that week. The culprits
ended up grabbing her in order to take her camera. Her team leader then
attacked them, however, as the bag reached the ground another culprit ended up
picking it up and running off with it. Praise the Lord Emily and everyone else
was not harmed in any way. I would love to see the culprits face once he
realized he just stole a broken camera.
As you have heard the bus station isn’t the safest place and
so everyone had good reason to be a bit anxious. Thankfully our 2 hours of
waiting there were no mishaps and we safely loaded up all our bags and piled
into the bus to begin a long journey.
The ride was bumpy as we fully experienced the African roads
all night long. People tried to make best of the time on the bus sleeping,
reading books, or watching movies. Overall it was a tiring travel day, but all
is well as we arrived at our sleeping quarters with no lost bags and tired
faces.
During our travels we would be randomly stopped due to
weight issues for the bus. During one of our stops we were fortunate enough to
be by the Serengeti and were able to see a group of baboons along the side of
the road getting their fill on food alongside the road.
