After the settle in...

Just wrapped up our first day in Kampala. Maybe its because I am getting old or maybe its because I flew for 24 hours and slept about a whole :30 on the three plane legs to get here but its 8:40 right now and I am sitting in my bed typing this up with every intention to go to sleep by 9:00. Our day got started about mid-day, which was kind of nice. After a really good night sleep last night we all got up around 9am this AM and since it was Easter Sunday which is as big of holiday from a Christian point of view as it is in the U.S. we didn’t have too much to do in the morning. Walked around the hotel a bit, snapped some photos and had some breakfast. Around 11:30 Rotary members and some of our hosts showed up to take us away. Tim, Peter and I are all staying with the same family for Sunday and Monday and then we’re off to our hosts for the rest of the week. Today we got settled into our room, drove around Kampala bit, changed some money and jumped online for a quick email. Then back to our “compound” as we are calling it as the people we are staying with own a beauty school on the site where they live so Peter and I are actually bunking in some of the school dormitories. They run a school that teaches students (mostly women) things like hair, massage, nails, waxing etc. On site here there is the old school building, the new school building which we will be attending the opening ceremony and graduation for, as well as house where our hosts live. So after getting back we had some barbeque pork and chicken a green bananas and beef dish (delicious) , some salad and fresh juice which our family makes fresh. We actually had a few kinds today one of which was Watermelon and Pineapple…really good. Sat outside in the beautiful weather under a huge shade tree till the sun went down and then had a cup of tea and off to bed. So far the trip is kicking off well. I’ve yet to really experience the country/culture etc outside our Rotary group but I am excited to learn more. Tomorrow we are off to Jinja to see the source of the Nile River some dams and some waterfalls. Should be a day trip and we’ll take off tomorrow around 9am. Off to bed