Greetings to all, happy holiday’s (perhaps a bit premature) and we trust that the majority of you reading this blog are enjoying the snow. I think SJ and I are both slightly missing the powdery white stuff. 40 degrees above zero feels a bit weird in December. My internal holiday clock is totally messed up. So please, if you are not enjoying the snow, the ice, the minus 30, the defensive driving and that storms, just think of us sweating our faces off and enjoy it a little for us. That would be great.
Today was also exciting as we were, once again, able to spend a very special day with the children from Nakasongola. Sarah, myself, and two other volunteers (Jess and Edith) were invited to spend the day with the kids in Entebbe. When we joined up with the kids we met them at the Entebbe International Airport where they were enjoying some sodas and watching the airplanes land, take-off and just chill on the tarmac. Something, to many of us, so “normal” and mundane and certainly not worthy of two hours; but something, to the kids, new and tremendously exciting. Another thing that the kids found very exciting/scary were stairs. Yes you read correctly…stairs. The majority of these kids had never scene or climbed stairs before. (you don’t need stairs in mud huts☺) It was fun to be able to experience this with them, they were very cautious in climbing up and down the stairs and held very tightly to our hands for extra support!
Next we proceeded to the Entebbe Wildlife Reserve (zoo). Along with the kids, we were excited to be able to see lions, rhinos, zebras, chimpanzees, monkeys (in and out of cages) and many other animals. After checking out all the animals we enjoyed lunch right on the edge of Lake Victoria. While swimming was tempting, the water didn’t look all that appealing. Sarah and I both stepped in just to say that we had been in Lake Victoria, but that is as far as we went.
All in all it was a GREAT day!
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