We are so thankful to have made it safe and sound to Uganda! We arrived into our new (temporary) home around 1:00am on Tuesday morning. Since then, we have had a full schedule every day at the office, into Kampala, at a staff member's home for a meal, church, car shopping, or house shopping. Much to do! Thankfully, we've has so many people helping us and teaching us as we go.
This is on our first day, after we had just had dinner with some friends and took a walk on the golf course nearby. Bradley decided to jump INTO the ditch full of water, rather than over it! He was covered in red mud! Thankfully, he was laughing and okay.
This is a pic of our temporary home. A current EMI staff member and his family live here. They are on home assignment in the states until January. So we are able to sublet it from them until we find a place of our own. This process is going well. We've already spent two days looking at 5 homes in the neighborhood and 3 are a potential. We will go again this week to look at a few more.
Night out for dinner at another EMI staff member's home....playing Qwirkle! Love that game!
Now for the TOP 10 things learned in our first 10 days...
1. African ants are WAY smarter than US ants. Their communication skills are beyond human intelligence and they can go where no man has gone before!
2. Always slow down when moving through your home. The amount of steps, lips, ledges in Ugandan homes are astronomical in number AND uneven! You can easily loose toe nails.
3. Driving on the left and sitting on the right is not as
difficult as one might imagine. The hardest part is just getting in the vehicle to do so.
difficult as one might imagine. The hardest part is just getting in the vehicle to do so.
4. Electricity is a privilege.
5. Driving on snow and ice is good practice to drive on
Ugandan red dirt in the rain. Its as slick as black ice.
Ugandan red dirt in the rain. Its as slick as black ice.
6. Children adjust to a new time zone in half the time of an adult.
7. Ugandan fruit and vegetables have color and flavor that the good Lord intended them to have!
8. Ugandan roosters cock-a-doodle-doo ALL DAY LONG.
9. Ugandan avocados speak my love language.
10. Turns out, Yeti is a wonderful guard dog. Well, at least he can sound like one. All of our neighbors are amazed by him, and have never seen anything like him!
10. Turns out, Yeti is a wonderful guard dog. Well, at least he can sound like one. All of our neighbors are amazed by him, and have never seen anything like him!
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