Well lots to tell everyone today! First off last weekend our
entire team went on a safari in Murchison falls. It was absolutely beautiful
and we had a blast. We drove 8 hours up to the park on Thursday, went on the
safari Friday and then drove back to Lugazi on Saturday. Thursday was an
interesting day to say the least though. Our first interesting part of the day
was when we were driving through the out skirts of Kampala. All of the sudden
we looked and everyone was running in the opposite direction that we were
driving covering their mouths yelling. We all got a little freaked out and
apparently there was a huge riot and tear gas was released so everyone was
running trying to get away from it. Hopefully that is the first and last riot
we will see here in Uganda. But our next adventure of the day was when we
arrived at our “hostel” for the night. I am not sure if you could quite call it
a hostel though. It was straight up a cement building with 4 rooms in the
middle of the forest on an island. SKETCHY. The room that Liv, Kar, Maren,
Elise and I had was coveredddd in bugs, spiders, rats, cockroaches, had a
busted window, a missing ceiling panel and people’s random clothes they had
left there. We didn’t sleep that night simply
because we were too afraid to fall asleep haha. Pathetic? Maybe but hey at
least we made it through the night. (Come to find out there was actually a
hippo outside of our room all night too.) Anyways we started the safari super
early Friday morning and had an awesome drive. We saw elephants, giraffes,
water buffalo, a lion, monkeys, waterbucks, impalas, and tons of other things.
During the afternoon we went on a boat up to Murchison falls and we saw tons of
hippos, crocs and other things. It was really amazing and now I have crossed
off one of my bucket list items—go on a safari!
Well after a
great weekend we started off the week right yesterday teaching an I’m Proud to
be a Girl assembly at a local school called Lugazi Homeland College. There were
about 200 girls and Kar, Liv, Elise, Maren and I got to teach the entire thing.
It was an experience I will never forget just because of how happy the girls
were to learn and to hear from us. I have never met so many high school aged
girls who are so excited to learn about feminine hygiene, HIV/AIDS, sex,
relationships and self-confidence than these girls. Today we have been
preparing all day for our big health outreach tomorrow. I am going to be
teaching sanitation and showing them how to make a hand washing station using a
jerry can, string and some sticks. After that I just have Thursday left and
then I leave on Friday! I cannot believe how fast time has gone but I am
excited to get back to my family too. I know when I get on that flight I will
be sad to be leaving these beautiful wonderful people but it is time. Here are
some pictures for every one of the safari and things going on! Enjoy and see
you all soon! Thanks for all your support and love. Love and miss you all!
murchison falls
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