I made it!

I sat in front of the big screens that direct you to the gate staring at the Entebbe flight. It had been on the screen for about an hour but no gate was listed yet. I was enjoying my second helping of yogurt and granola (which tastes even better in London than it does back home!). Well over half of the flights for the evening had been cancelled due to weather but Entebbe still looked promising. Just as I was finishing up my yogurt it popped up; gate B42! I had plenty of time to get there but I still hurried. The flight went smoothly; I was asleep before we even took off! Thankfully there was a wonderful lady sitting mext to me who woke me up for dinner! She even saved my dessert for me when I fell asleep before getting to it! She had exciting plans for her trip to Uganda and we talked quite a bit as we had breakfast before landing. She gave me lots of advice about living in a foreign country and she told me that she would wait at the airport until I found my taxi driver. I was so thankful for all her help! I have a picture that I'll put up once I get my laptop working.

I found my driver really easily thanks to the big sign that said "Molly Smith"! It was exciting to see my own name on a sign like that...sometimes I still can't believe I get to do this!
I have no idea how long the ride to the guesthouse was; I was so busy trying to see everything that I paid no attention to time. It looks a lot like the bigger cities I've been to in Haiti and Jamaica, though it's certainly distinct in some ways.
The guesthouse is perfect. Its small but very nice and very comfortable. I have pictures of my room that I'll put up later. (I love my room!! It's so pretty!) I've been able to talk to the couple that's running it for the weekend a little bit which has been really fun; they have a beautiful little girl that is quite entertaining! I love listening to conversations about life here and the work they and the other missionaries do.

After I got here I met with Karen, the short-term coordinator, to talk about some different things. I got my own cell phone and filled out some paperwork. Then I got to go on my first boda ride!! A boda is kind of like a motorcycle. You sit on the back behind the driver and hang on to the seat under you. Karen and I both rode on the same one, three people on one bike! She said sometimes you'll see even more than that piled on one boda. We went to the grocery store down the road from the guesthouse; it was much more modern than I had anticipated and you could find just about anything there! She showed me all the different fruit I'll be able to buy; mangoes, pineapple, oranges (which are green here, it's very strange looking!), avacados, bananas, and a few others that I can't remember right now! She bought me a mango which I'm very much looking forward to! I was able to use the ATM after that and bought some airtime for my phone with the Ugandan money I got out. She said that I'll be using the Ugandan money here all the time rather than my card so I'll have to get used to talking in the thousands and hundred thousands when I'm buying things. For example, I spent 20,000 on the airtime today; sounds like a TON but really it was only about 8 dollars.
Karen then treated me to fresh mango/pineapple juice from a coffee shop and we talked a little more about what I would be doing here. She explained that I'll be living with Florence; a Ugandan woman who is the director of Mukisa. Currently a girl named Cat lives with her. She's lived there for about two months and will be leaving in two weeks. Karen said that Cat will be able to teach me basically everything I'll need to know while I'm here, how to get around, how much to pay for different things, stuff like that. I'll get to meet her on Sunday and I'm definitely looking forward to it! I'm grateful that our stays here overlap so she can fill me in on everything!

When we got back to the guesthouse we had lunch then I had time to relax until dinner. I called my mom and Garrick for a little bit which was such a nice surprise because none of us thought that we'd be able to talk while I was here!! I took a much needed nap before dinner but woke up more exhausted than I was before I fell asleep!

Speaking of being exhausted, I still am! I'm going to shower then head to bed for the night! =] My first night in Uganda!! =]