Oh and the title mean 'Crazy white people' which is what the kids yell at us whenever we walk by (they mean it with affection! haha)
Nothing really eventful happened on the plane, so I’m going to start from when we got of the plane in Entebbe, Uganda.
We all got off the plane, exhausted. (3:00am Ugandan time, 12:00pm Arkansas time) And huge sign welcomed us saying “Welcome to the Pearl of Africa!” I got chills when I saw it. Then while our parents dealt with visas, us kids sat down with our bags. It took an hour or so to get visas dealt with. Then we went to get our luggage. Then we headed out of the airport, where a man held a sign say ‘Scott and Kelly’ (Aunt Cari the lady we are working with here, had him come get us) so we followed him out to a van. And put our stuff into the van, and piled into it. And as we drove away from the airport it hit me. There were no more planes. Not more packing for Uganda. No more goodbyes. No more. We were here. We were in Uganda. We ARE in Uganda! So sitting in a van, bumping across the dirt road, Annie on my lap. The Uganda scenery passing by my window. I cried. I asked God ‘Why do you want me here? Why did I have to leave my friends? Why did I have to leave my family? Why did I have to say goodbye to my big brother and sister? Why me? Why?’ We drove for 40 minutes, to Kampala. Once we arrived at our house, we all made up our beds, and went to bed (or laid in our beds not tired at all, because it was like..3:00 in the afternoon to our bodies) But we did finally go to bed. But before I knew it my dad was shaking me awake telling me the Aunt Cari (we call everyone here Aunt or Uncle) Aunt Ruth, and Courtney where over to take us out to eat. So I slowly (but surely) got out of bed, got dressed, and we left. We got to the mall where we were going to eat. (it was 12:00pm Ugandan time, and 9:00pm Arkansas) There were like 4 restaurants, and once we turned the corner to where they all were, different people, from different restaurants, came around us, handing us menus. Asking what we wanted, and until we ordered, they finally left.
Nothing really else happened, until Monday. Which was when we went to help with the Holiday Program, at the school we’re working at. The Holiday Program is pretty much VBS. We did sports, bible, and music. It involved older kids and younger (from ages 6-14) which was nice because I got to meet the girls my age too :) That was so much fun! Those kids are so talented!!
After the Holiday Program was over. A week before school started. My mom helped the teachers with getting ready for school. And somehow, the teachers found out I could draw. So they had me come up to the school, and draw all of the posters for there classrooms. And I guess I didn’t say my name clearly, because they think my name is Merisha. Haha! They had me drawing, mangos, huts, yams, zippers, doors, apples, oranges, bananas, pineapples, jackets, igloos, rats, snakes, kites, and much much more! But they all turned out really nice ;)
Now that’s just a bit of what we’ve been doing. But I’ll post more later
Check out the pictures of our house, and around where we live!
I was walking around with Courtney, Benji, and Laura. And i had my camera out. And these kids came running out of house all around, screaming "Photograph!"
This is out wonderful house! 
Great post. Can't wait for more.<3
ReplyDeleteSo glad I found your blog! What a journey! A journey I could only dream of going on. Take in every moment and know that you are one in a million people who may ever get to have an adventure like this in their lives. I look forward to following along!
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