A New Country, A New Journey
Trip Start
Sep 04, 2007
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Trip End
Jun 08, 2008
Kampala,
Uganda
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Our team has finally made it to Uganda!!! We left the Philippines @ 12:20am on Wednesday, March 5th and we faced a huge challenge right from the start. There had been a misunderstanding about the amount of bags that we were allowed to bring. We ended up taking twice the amount of stuff that we were allowed, and thus would have had to pay $3000 in baggage fees each way. After finding this out, our team started working on getting rid of stuff that we thought we could do without, and in the end, only ended up being overweight by a few pounds. Our first flight went through Dubai and was very smooth, except for a gate change in Dubai that had us running through the airport. Finally, we landed in Entebbe, about an hour from Kampala, at Uganda's major international airport.
We realized immediatly that things in Uganda are way different than the Philippines. One major thing is that they drive on the left side of the road here, which takes some time getting used to, especially when it comes to crossing the street. Well, our first 2 days we spent getting oriented and getting over our jet lag. On Friday we did a program at a school in Kampala for about a thousand students. This was an awesome program full of African spirit, and we even got Ugandan names. Mine is "Kitende" which means praise. It is now Sunday afternoon here, and we are resting before our program tomorrow at a shelter for street boys close to where we are staying.
So that is life in our world. We will be here in Uganda until April 4th, when we will fly back to the Philippines. Have a great day and God Bless!!!
Trent
