Sorry I haven't written yet since I have been in this lovely country of Uganda. Right away I want to say that I will definitely not be on the Internet that often if even at all. I will try to keep my parents at least updated about what I am doing. Unfortunately the Internet is not readily available; it is very slow and sometimes non existent. That is totally normal in Africa. I hope you continue to check for those random times that I am able to go on. I love and miss you all very much!!! I apologize in advance for any inconvenience that causes anyone. I will be journaling and keeping many things in my head here so as to report when I come home; if the internet thing does not work out.
Things are moving quite fast – even though I have only been away for one week. I arrived in Kampala, Uganda this past Sunday morning. We had two 9 hour overnight flights between Thursday night when we left phoenix and when we arrived. As you can probably imagine, we were all exhausted. I missed two nights of sleep and we were welcomed with a full day of activities when we arrived. I was running on adrenaline from the excitement of arriving for a few hours anyway, but I faded very quickly.
The next few days were orientation to the new culture – if that is something that you can ever get oriented too – but I was still exhausted because of the eleven hour time difference. We started our African Culture and Religion class and Post colonial African Literature courses Tuesday and Wednesday – which are going to be VERY interesting. They sang to us and performed some stories, riddles and tongue twisters in Lugandan and Kiswahili. It was very fun!
Many of you know that I have been looking forward to this trip for a very long time and therefore, even though I didn't want them, I had many expectation of what I thought it would be like. When I started to find out and experience what we would actually be doing I found out it was not at all what I expected. The trip is really what you make of it, we have free days to visit organizations and volunteer, learn new things and experience the life here; however it is not laid out or structured for us. It would be very easy to go to classes, do the reading, write the papers, and come home in four months without much difference than studying at home. I do not want this to happen. Please pray that I will have many opportunities and make the most of those opportunities.
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