Kisoro Uganda

The trip down there was pretty fun. Driving 9 hours on American roads is much different than 9 hours on African roads. It's definitely an experience. At one point, our vehicle gave us a scare. For some reason, it wouldn't go faster than about 10 mph, and much slower up hill. We all got out of the car and acted like we new something about diesel engines. Andy,Stephen and Anthony started poking and twisting random parts. Stephen did a really good job. I think he checked the oil level at least 3 times. Meanwhile I mingled with the locals who didn't speak English or Luganda and rarely see white people, much less white people broken down on the side of the road. Somehow we got it working! We also discovered that some white people must have driven through this way sometime and handed out pens to all the kids. Almost every other kid we saw on the side of the road would yell out "Give me pen!" Unfortunately we had a lack of pens ready to give out, so instead we gave them our melted skittles, which was all we had.I just got back from my trip to Kisoro. It was really nice to get out of Kampala. When left Kampala it was about 85 degrees and we were at 1000 feet above sea level. By the time we arrived, it was in the upper 50's and we were at 1900 feet above sea level. It was so refreshing to have some cool weather. I even got to wear my hoodie! Kisoro is on the edge of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It's beautiful. When you get close to Kisoro you can see 3 different volcanoes all right next to each other. The first one is in Uganda, the second is in Rwanda and the third is in the Congo. There is a big crater lake on the top of the one in Uganda. It was raining most of the day on Sunday and you could see waterfalls coming off of the volcano.
When we arrived on Friday night, we met up with George and he fed us dinner. It was really good. Rice, beans, meat and Jeanut sauce. Saturday, George took us to the 5 different locations around Kisoro where they have programs to support struggling children. They work with Compassion International. It was really cool to see the program from this side of things. In the U.S. I often come across those organization asking for $30 bucks a month to sponsor a child. It is amazing go to the place where the children actually are and see them in person. $30 goes a very long way in Uganda. That money means so much to those kids! On Sunday, we split up and went to two different churches. I got to speak that morning, unfortunately it was storming really bad, and with tin roofs, it gets very very loud. Thankfully it ended up calming down and the morning went really well. Monday we woke up very early to drive home. I woke up feeling very sick, and i was sick the whole way home. In fact my throw up is scattered on the ground throughout all of southwest-central Uganda (I hope thats not too much information for you). It was really cool though, we bought 150 pens and passed them out to the kids all the way home. It was awesome how much a cheap pen meant to them.

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