We have returned to planet earth. Our flight leaves in a couple of hours. We are homesick, both for snowy Iowa and for our many new friends on Planet Uganda. We have packed many varied experiences into two short weeks.
Our posts have been few due to unavailability of email. We have thousands of photos which we are eager to post.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Uganda. The parts of Kampala, the capital, we drove through in the dark when we arrived over a week ago reminded me of the landscape in the movie Wally, a gray smoky landfill, but densely populated by a mass of humanity rather than a lone robot.
Now, after five days in Kishanje, a remote mountain village almost on the southern border, I feel like we were on another planet, or at least in the region of the Garden of Eden.
Kishanje is a place you cannot imagine.
-breathtaking misty, carefully tilled mountain sides
-an HIV positive ten-year-old doing all the work for an entire household each day before and after she attends school
-authentic joy
-vivid Ugandan colors
-red dank mud floors
-soccer games on a cow-dung-dotted field
My ‘getting a clue’ about what life is like in Uganda has included:
Meeting Patience, my sponsored child
Learning more patience being on Africa time
Sitting barefoot next to barefoot on the hillside with the women’s weaving group
Hiking up the mountain, and down again
Singing in impromptu worship service in a van on a narrow muddy mountain trail
Singing in impromptu worship service in a small church on a mountain top with village children
‘teaching’ a Commerce class in the high school
Listening to a CD on a laptop in an attic while the generator is running with two high-schoolers choreographing dance moves to a Caucasian choir performance of an African song
Meeting Christmas and Grace (teachers)
Being helped down the mountain by a young man named Trust
More later.
Getting a bit of a clue.
Connie
Connie
Now, after five days in Kishanje, a remote mountain village almost on the southern border, I feel like we were on another planet, or at least in the region of the Garden of Eden.
Kishanje is a place you cannot imagine.
-breathtaking misty, carefully tilled mountain sides
-an HIV positive ten-year-old doing all the work for an entire household each day before and after she attends school
-authentic joy
-vivid Ugandan colors
-red dank mud floors
-soccer games on a cow-dung-dotted field
My ‘getting a clue’ about what life is like in Uganda has included:
Meeting Patience, my sponsored child
Learning more patience being on Africa time
Sitting barefoot next to barefoot on the hillside with the women’s weaving group
Hiking up the mountain, and down again
Singing in impromptu worship service in a van on a narrow muddy mountain trail
Singing in impromptu worship service in a small church on a mountain top with village children
‘teaching’ a Commerce class in the high school
Listening to a CD on a laptop in an attic while the generator is running with two high-schoolers choreographing dance moves to a Caucasian choir performance of an African song
Meeting Christmas and Grace (teachers)
Being helped down the mountain by a young man named Trust
More later.
Getting a bit of a clue.
Connie
Connie
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