I am here :D

We arrived! And we arrived safely! :D

The first day has defiantly been strange. After an 8 hour flight (9:15-5:15), in which we got very little sleep, and being picked up at the airport by Alex and a few of the team, we made our way across to Kampala. It was (for some of us) our first view of Uganda. My description won’t give this beautiful country justice but I’ll take a stab at it.

First off although we got a clear picture of the red dirt tracks covering the ground from our bird’s eye view from the sky before we landed, experiencing them first hand was a different matter entirely. Let’s jut say the rules of the road are majorly different from that of England. Saying this there was no smell of exhaust in the air rather the wind blowing through the windows had more of a wood burning perfume. That is, of cores, when it wasn’t tinged with the sudden wafts of cooked meat from the stalls lining the road. These in themselves were a curious sight. Some made out of scrap metal and material, the others wood, they seemed to be selling anything from clothes to air time mobile money. Many had the interesting advantage of a building (however made) that seemed to have been set up by major companies such as Orange and Coca-Cola. Most of these, contradictly, seemed to be bordered up, the sellers, with wears contradictory to the buildings, setting up shop in front of them. Although there were very few buildings with more than one level everything seemed to be on top each other and there were times when we whizzed past signs for hospitals, schools and police stations but were unable to pick them out.

After feeling relatively awake during the hour or so journey to Kampala (possibly due to the excitement of being there or, for some, the left over buzz from seeing a JLS member at the airport) when we got to our ‘home’ for the next 9 months, we were exhausted. Two of us saw our malaria tablet again after swallowing it as consequence of lack of sleep, traveling and not enough food. We are fine now though, had a nap and some decent food inside us (+a slight power cut) and are settling in to our new home. Thank you guys for all your support. I will try and update regularly but we may be busy for a while getting settled.

If you want to please pray for:

·         Tummies

·         Tiredness and

·         Temperature (just until we get used to heat)