It's a long road home...
Well, after a 14 hour bus ride (freezing cold the whole time having been soaked to the bone several times before boarding and at the border, and from sitting by a very leaky window), I arrived back in Kampala, Uganda at around 9:30pm Wednesday night. Very exhausting but uneventful trip....lots of sleeping, lots of texting, lots of reading, and a great big headache. Meetings... presentations... dinners...debriefing, and it is all now over. Deep breath, shake of the head...and still cannot believe it.
I just spent four months in Africa... Uganda, Rwanda, and Kenya. Above all, Kenya.
Being back in Kampala is familiar now... spent my first morning back out in the city with a friend, stopping in pharmacies and walking through the maze of one of the big markets... Strange to be back amidst all the calls from men again, and their reaching out to touch us all the time. Strange to be back with all the crazy traffic that somehow has order in all its chaos... strange, but familiar. A little grating, really, after being in Kenya; in Marsabit. Kampala seems like a town grown fat and gone mad. Rather funny, really.
So now that I've reached the end... what am I looking at next? Let's see... that would be...
Uganda to Slovakia to London to Slovakia to New York to New Jersey to Indianna to New Jersey to Slovakia & Austria again, with other quick trips a possibility before returning to final year of uni mid August.
Moreover, I have now not only received a personal invitation from the Archbishop of Kenya to return there when I can... but I also have been asked by the FH director for Mozambique after he looked at some of the research I did this spring to come work there as soon as I can whether December or some time next year. So Africa may return sooner into the picture than thought... Who can say?
And meanwhile... next stop: Slovakia!!
I just spent four months in Africa... Uganda, Rwanda, and Kenya. Above all, Kenya.
Being back in Kampala is familiar now... spent my first morning back out in the city with a friend, stopping in pharmacies and walking through the maze of one of the big markets... Strange to be back amidst all the calls from men again, and their reaching out to touch us all the time. Strange to be back with all the crazy traffic that somehow has order in all its chaos... strange, but familiar. A little grating, really, after being in Kenya; in Marsabit. Kampala seems like a town grown fat and gone mad. Rather funny, really.
So now that I've reached the end... what am I looking at next? Let's see... that would be...
Uganda to Slovakia to London to Slovakia to New York to New Jersey to Indianna to New Jersey to Slovakia & Austria again, with other quick trips a possibility before returning to final year of uni mid August.
Moreover, I have now not only received a personal invitation from the Archbishop of Kenya to return there when I can... but I also have been asked by the FH director for Mozambique after he looked at some of the research I did this spring to come work there as soon as I can whether December or some time next year. So Africa may return sooner into the picture than thought... Who can say?
And meanwhile... next stop: Slovakia!!
Breakfast on the bus: 
posted by Lada @ 7:29 AM
1 Comments:
Talk about packing in a whole lot in a short time! My goodness Heather! It will certainly take quite some time to process all that you have experienced, the good and the bad, the hard and the easy, the horrifying and the inspiring.jgh
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