Lazy Weekend

by emma | Jul 6, 2008 | Africa, Travel

I’ve had a pretty lazy weekend, and it’s been welcomed! The past week of traveling all over the show with teams was incredible but pretty tiring, so I was ready for a nice slow weekend. Kicked off on Friday evening by heading down to Entebbe to pick up the Aberdeen team, who are lead by my good friend Susie. Susie is the person who put me in contact with FOL initially, so it was cool to get to spend a bit of time with her at the weekend. I’ll be heading up to Kiwoko with them next Sunday for the week, so will have plenty of time to get to know the girls!

We spent a few hours chilling out at Garden City on Saturday afternoon, including introducing the girls to the food court – quite the experience! There are about 8 different restaurants, they all come at you from different directions with menus, pointing things out, hovering over you like flies until you choose their menu! I also managed to bump into a friend from Glasgow who’s out in Kampala for a month, which was good fun.

This morning we went along to the International Church here in Kampala, and man, I loved it! They aren’t particularly high-tech in the way some churches would be, but they made so much use of such a wide variety of creative and artistic worship, it was incredible to watch/participate in. I was trying to find some of the liturgy they used in communion this morning, because it just blew me away by its power – can’t seem to find it right now, but if I do I’ll post it up.

How’s your weekend been?

Traveling With Teams

by emma | Jul 5, 2008 | Africa, Travel

Over the last few days I’ve been out and about with different teams every day – Love For Life, Emmanuel, and Hamilton Road Baptist, took a trip into Kampala city centre to buy some fabrics for a team, went to Entebbe to meet a team at the airport, hung out with the Aussie team here at Shalom, took a trip to visit Rapha medical clinic, and such like… it’s been a busy but excellent few days!

I’ll try post a little more about the teams and what they’re up to later, along with some more photos, but for now here’s one of my favourite shots so far. It was taken on Monday when I headed out with the Love For Life team.

Grace’s Introduction

by emma | Jul 2, 2008 | Africa, Travel

On Saturday I went to Grace’s “introduction”, a kind of Ugandan pre-wedding wedding. It was the longest I’ve ever sat still in my whole life… we must have sat for about 5 hours before we left, and it still wasn’t over then! There are a lot of speeches, and role-play type things, the bride finding the groom, giving gifts, the fathers agreeing upon a gift for the daughter, lots of traditional music and dance. It was definitely a very cultural experience, although not one I plan to repeat anytime soon!

A few snaps:

Emmaus Guesthouse

by emma | Jun 27, 2008 | Africa, Travel

Thought I’d give you guys a wee glimpse of one of the FOL guesthouses, Emmaus. I’m currently staying in their other guesthouse, Shalom, but Emmaus is just up the road a short walk, and it has stunning views out over the countryside & the city…

Not bad, eh?! Check out the Fields Of Life website to see more of what the charity does. There isn’t much information on the guesthouse online (in fact, there’s pretty much none!), but I’m working on that! I’m designing a brochure for the guesthouses which will either be put online as a PDF or reworked into the site to include online booking.

Arrived

by emma | Jun 25, 2008 | Africa, Travel

I’m here! Sitting in the Fields Of Life office in Kampala. Pictures, videos, and words to follow soon!

Get Involved :: Polaroid Update

by emma | Jun 23, 2008 | Africa, Travel

I posted a few months back looking for some Polaroid donations for my trip to Uganda/Rwanda… here’s the result!

You guys are incredible generous, this is most of what I received! I know the kids who receive pictures of themselves will love it… thank you so much!