Uganda Trip #11

(January 12) I’m sitting with Stu and Mike in the Amsterdam airport during our six-hour layover here. I’m anxious to land at MSP at 4 pm on Saturday, see Carol, get cleaned up, try to stay up till 9 pm. I hope I get a good night’s sleep before gathering with you all at FCC […]

(Wednesday, Jan 10) Time for a little honesty here (not that I’ve lied in the past). Some of these trips are a bit more challenging than others-this is one of the more challenging ones. I can’t put a finger on it, but I’ve been very aware of how much time until I get to come […]

Today we started our five days in the classroom. I was fairly concerned about my capacities as my jet lag has been really bad this trip. Last night I probably got 2 ½ hours of sleep, and I was afraid my body was going to decide it was tired when I was teaching, and I’d […]

Today’s thoughts will come from yesterday (Thursday, Jan 4). At 9 am, Mike Evans and a few local guys headed to a town called Kitgum (a 45-minute drive), while Stu Dix and I headed to the Adjumani district (one hour and 45 minutes), an area currently hosting 440,000 displaced people in 18 settlements (or neighborhoods). […]

The transition from Amsterdam to Nairobi was a bit more sedate, other than the fact that Mike, Stu, and I were sitting side by side in a rather smallish (compared to what we’re used to) KLM airplane. When I say compared to what we’re used to-we always fly economy. Once we landed in Nairobi, the […]

Today I start with a long post. It’s 3:30 am and we have arrived in Uganda. Otim (oh team), our usual driver, was at the Entebbe airport when we arrived. We are now in a rainy trip across the country. We started our journey at a restaurant at MSP arriving there at 4 pm on […]