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Week 1 Uganda

We left Dubai last Saturday morning and after a sleepless evening for myself, we were greeted with amazing grace as we loaded our bags onto the scale at the United Air Emerites counter.  We were a bit over weight but the lady waved us through, then came the weighing of the carry ons which I knew each of us were over, Dan and I were definitely overweight with the laptops and cameras, not much else was in our bags but again we were graced with a distraction at the exact time we were to be weighing our bags, another lady was fighting with the scale lady and she waved us through.  Finally I could relax and Dan went a changed into his shorts and t-shirts since he was wearing half his wardrobe so we we would be less weight with out bags:)  it was quite funny.

The flight to Uganda was a short 5 hour flight, and we were greeted in the Uganda airport by Jeff and Avin and incredible heat:)  I had never flown into Uganda during the day before so it was so interesting to get a different perspective.  I also think that Avin and Ally have not stopped chatting with each other since they first laid eyes on each other.  I find it so amazing and it makes my heart smile when I see my kids with the Dyck kids and they just pick up like no time has past.  Jeff then drove us to a local shopping centre, with quite the grocery store so we could pick up a few essentials and then it was heading down to Masaka where they spend half of their week.  Here we stay in a guest house just below Jeff and Shannon's house.  There are a few guest houses on the property and the Girls school.  The project itself is quite amazing and I will go into more detail in another blog.  We spent a few nights here, the internet is a better here then down in Kibaale so the kids could get some online schooling done, we met some of Jeff and Shan's expat friends and really just spent time catching up with our friends.  We are so impressed with the work they do here.

I think the best thing that second day was heading the babies home where Shannon volunteers at and holding the babies and helping feeding them.  There were so many babies, at one point Michelle turned to me and said "mom they just keep coming"  plus at the time we were at the home, there were only two house mama's that I saw.  They have so much to do with getting the food, laundry done, chores done they just don't have enough hands to just hold the babies.

After a few days in Masaka at the Timothy Centre we heading down to Kibaale.  The school there has around 800 students but they were out on term break right now but luckily for us our little sponsor girl Rebecca was living next door to Jeff and Shannon.  Her mom is very sick so she is living with her aunt and uncle who work at the centre.  We were so thrilled to meet Rebecca for the first time after sponsoring her for 6 years, and then when she came over to see her wearing one of Kylie's shirts that we had sent for her was so precious.  We got to go see Rebecca's house that we helped build after her mud hut was falling down and we got to go see a bore hole pump that had been repaired thanks to our good friends the Nelson's.  To see where the kids used to get their water out of this dirty pond and to see them pumping the water from the pump was amazing.

Well it is midnight there so I will sign off for now.  We are heading out in the morning for a two day safari to search for Giraffes, zebras and leopards:)  Nothing like that kind of schooling for my kids.  Elections are next week here in the country so please be in prayers that things remain peaceful.  Love to all at home.
Sher