After over 24 hours of traveling we made it to the village safely.
The trip getting to Uganda was a little bumpy for timbo and I but we made it
will all our bags which was amazing and I thank God for that. We arrived in the
village at 1:00am on Friday morning (our time in Uganda.) We were 8 hours in
front of Florida but now that the time has changed we are 7 hours before ya’ll.
The first day in the village Friday was hard for me because I arrived sick and
the first night got only about 2 and ½ hours of sleep all I felt like doing was
staying in bed and resting but all the kids and ladies were asking about me and
worried for me. Talk about feeling loved, people you don’t know worried about
you because you don’t feel good. So Friday I met some of the people but I
mostly rested hoping I could get better in the shortest time possible. So I did
little by little on Friday. Arielle and I rearranged our room; we put our beds
together and organized all our things. We also had to re-hang our mosquito net
and that was a site to see.
So Friday was an organizing and resting day for me. Until
Arielle comes in our room freaking out, she had just gotten off the phone with
a director of an organization that has volunteers in the village too. He wanted
us to pay or move out of where we were staying, but Arielle had an agreement
with the man who started the village Jonathon that is her contact. But Jonathan
is out of the country right now so she could not call him. So she talked to
Jonathan’s brother and he told her what to say to this man. But we all were a
little nervous because this guy was on this way to the village to get an answer
from us were we going to pay or move out. Two ladies in the village were really
comforting they just have a peace about them that made us calm before this guy
got to the village. They are like our Ugandan mothers because the really care
about us and love us. They have our back no matter what happens. This guy came
to the village and talked to Arielle and told her that we would solve the
problem when Jonathon comes back from his trip. So for now this is to be
continued.
On Friday night after this guy left Immy cooked dinner for
us in her house and we got to eat dinner with her and her family. It was really
comforting to know that she cares about us and has a big heart to let us into
her home after only knowing me and timbo for one day.
Saturday was as eventful as Friday. We got up in the morning
to go into the town next to us to exchange our money and get some grocery’s at
the market. But the bank in Wikso would not exchange our smaller bills so we
decided to go all the way into Kampala. We thought we were only going to be
gone 2 hours but it turned into an all day trip. We had to take a bota- bota
from our village into Wikso then take 2 Mutatoo’s (taxi) to get into Kampala to
the shopping center we were going to. It took us about 2 hours of traveling to
get there. In Kampala we exchanged our money and we to the grocery store. We
also ate lunch at a place called the New York Pizza Kitchen. On the way home
from Kampala was a little shorter but one of our taxi’s said they were going
were we needed to go but they lied to us and drop us of the 15 mins away from
were we need to be to catch our other taxi back to Wikso. So we asked this girl
on the street how to get there and she walked us all the way there. And she was
not even going where we were going, she was just nice enough to take us there. And
we made it back to the village safely. On Saturday night we had a birthday
party for Immy. We went over to her house and decorated and brought cupcakes we
bought in town. We had a blast celebrating with her and her family and Favor.
They usually don’t celebrate birthdays here but she was really thankful that we
came over to celebrate with her.
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