I have arrived!

Actually I arrived on Monday, but only got internet now. We spent most of Monday in Kampala chasing up this container (to be explained later). Pastor Sam and I drove from Kampala to Mbale that afternoon, along the way experiencing the joy of chicken on a stick - beauty! I met the rest of my house and then pretty much crashed after only getting about 2 hours sleep the night before, and no sleep during the day. Yesterday I pretty much just chilled and recovered from the long journey.

And then comes today! Today the afformentioned container arrived. This container is full of donated items given by people around the UK and had been shipped last December, arrived in Uganda in April and after many many complications and probable dodgy dealings arrived this morning! This meant that we spent today sorting through clothes, toys, books and the like, to be distrubuted to the poor of the area over the next while. This meant that I got to meet the rest of the JENGA staff today, who were all really welcoming and very encouraging. We managed to get through the majority of the container today and will finish sorting tomorrow. Also had my first experience on a Pickie (motorbike taxi) today which was much less scary than first thought, and we didn't crash! Result! So all in all, was a pretty quality day.

Really enjoying Mbale so far. The next couple of weeks will be looking round projects that I'm interested in and seeing which ones I can get involved with.

I'll keep you posted

Dan

jengauganda.org

(p.s.this is actually from yesterday but my internet went!)