I left my house at 5:45 A.M. on Friday the 24 and we drove to Riverton to fly to Denver, which is about a 1 hour flight. Once we arrived in Denver we had a two hour layover, then we flew 4 hours to Newark, New Orleans and once again had a two hour layover there. Then we flew from Newark to Brussels in Belgium, that was an 8 hour flight but that wasn't even the worst. Once we arrived in Brussels we had another two hour layover but then we flew the 10 hours to Kigali, Rwanda. In Rwanda we had a one hour layover and we just stayed on the plane because it was flying another hour to out final destination: Entebbe, Uganda. When we got to Uganda it was around 1:00 in the morning and we still had an hour long drive ahead if us to get to the house that we are staying in. We arrived at the house at around 2:30 and we had food and we finally ended up going to bed around 3:00 in the morning! I slept until 1:00 in the afternoon! That day we went shopping for the week and we also went to the zoo, which I thought was too bad because we are in Africa, and when I think of Africa I think about safari’s and lions and elephants and animals in the wild... but we still went to the zoo. The cool thing about the Entebbe zoo is that they house two of the 80 Sumatran Rhinos left in the world!
On Monday we went to a place called Girl Up Initiative. They help girls who live in the slums of Uganda. When we arrived they sang for us and they fed us lunch and talked to us about their organization. They are specifically the Mazuri Design Group and they teach girls how to tailor or as we would say, they teach girls how to sew. The person who is running Girl Up is housing 8 different girls that are either orphans or girls who do not have suitable living conditions (abuse, poverty, homeless, etc...). We got picked up by a driver who worked for Bulogo Girls Program named Jude. He drove us a proclaimed 4 hours that ended up taking 8 hours. It was not the greatest experience because in Uganda they call dirt roads "Ugandan back massage roads," which, judging by the name, is very unpleasant. There are potholes everywhere and sometimes the road just has a two foot drop which will definitely wake you up if you are trying to sleep.
The next day we woke up and drove to the Bulogo Girls Program and we got to learn about what they do to help girls with education and to help with girls succeeding by selling their own products, they call that street business. I gave some local kids a soccer ball and we played a game while my mom was visiting people.
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Kwaheri! (Goodbye)
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