Ahoj!
Sunday, 29 April: stay up packing until 1:30am next day...Monday, 30 April:
--depart Kampala by overloaded bus 5:30am for Entebbe airport
--depart Uganda & African continent at about 10:00am
--look out airplane window and see deep blue sky above and bright orange Sahara desert below... BEAUTIFUL
--watch "Last King of Scotland" and "Freedom Writers" on flight to London
--sat next to London journalist on flight and had great conversation covering four + continents
--arrived in London and said goodbye to my fellow students 4:30pm
--enjoyed the thrills of repeating shops of Heathrow airport and purused some fifty book covers waiting on my next flight
--depart London for Vienna at 7:15pm
--wished I could sleep
--arrived, collected my bag, and went out and saw my family!!
--drive across the border to Slovakia
Tuesday, 1 May: National Holiday here in Slovakia.
Today--as yet unwritten. :)
It's so good to be back here... not quite over the shock of it all, though. It's strange to see all white people again, strange to hear Slovak once more... strange to eat icecream again!!! I can't believe I haven't enjoyed Slovak icecream since 2005. Kai! That's far to long to have the best icecream in the world!!!
Amazing things:
washing machines. I have a load in right now and it's a shock not to wash everything by hand after doing so for four months...
bread. We defintiely didn't have much of that during the last four months, either... except in Rwanda, where we ate French bread all the time...
temperatures: I'm freezing to death here! Kai! It's spring but it's so cold to me now!!!
posted by Lada @ 3:36 AM
1 Comments:
hey, I am not sure what you saw when you came through the doors in Vienna airport, but I liked what I saw when you came through them out to us. What a sight for sore eyes! It was great to see you, and great to have you home. jgh
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