Uganda Report – I’m Alive

I’m hanging onto the rest of the world by a thread. I’m online via a cell phone data connection. It’s as slow as dialup, but it works.

I’m busy, so I’ll make this quick, but I just wanted everyone to know that I am still alive.

Kampala was great. Got in late Sunday night after getting about 2 hrs of sleep on the plane (and no sleep the previous night due to having to go to the airport at 2am). Glen and I stayed in a really nice hotel there. It was great to sleep on real bed finally!

We drove to Mbale on Monday and then onto Soroti on Tuesday.

It’s been weird to change from Russian culture/language to Ugandan culture/language so abruptly. But I’m hanging in there. Lots of patience is necessary and I’m realizing that nothing is ever, ever, ever on time.

The hotel we’re staying at here is pretty nice. I didn’t sleep well at all though Tuesday night. I probably managed about 2 hours of solid sleep, but that was spread out through the whole night. It was pretty miserable. Amazingly though, I my energy levels stayed up all day. Wednesday night was great though. I slept straight from about 10:30pm till 8:30am. I feel great this morning.

The food is really good. I love all the fresh produce. I had curry chicken Tuesday night, and I’ll spare you the details, but let’s just say the curry and my stomach duked it out all day Wednesday. I think my pepto-bismol gave my stomach the upper hand though.

My cough is pretty much non-existent, but I’ve been having a strange pain in my chest since a couple days before I left Russia. I’m not sure if it’s just do to me needing a chiropractor really badly, or maybe a reaction to the malaria anti-biotics I’m on. It basically just starts hurting when I swallow. As of this morning, it seems to have cleared up, which is awesome (thank the Lord), but I’m still holding out to see if it will return later today.

Safety is not a concern for me at the hotel for right now. There are currently 10+ officers from the British army that are staying here while they do some training with the local military.

Continued prayer for safety, health, and productivity would be great.