I arrived in Kampala 2 days ago and Seth and Chris (Samaritan's Purse Country Director), picked me up from the airport. Seth has already been living and working here for a month while I have been finishing up work, moving out of our house, and packing and taking care of business stuff at Mom and Dad's (with TONS of help from Mom-thanks, Mom!, and from Dad, Wes, and Bunny as I moved out of the house- thanks guys!). For those of you who don't know, Seth is directing a food distribution program in the Karamoja region of Northern Uganda due to a severe drout the people are experiencing.
It's great to be back although we are being a little spoiled in Kampala before we travel up to Moroto on Sunday. Seth has been working out of the Kampala office this week and we are staying with Chris and Jodi, eating Mexican food and playing Settler's. Seth keeps telling me to eat up because, "trust me, there's not a lot of food in Moroto and you will get really tired of beans and rice". He has also been telling me to take lots of hot showers.
Uganda smells very nostalgic. If you can imagine a mixture of dirt, roasted maze, and cooking fire, that's what it smells like. Haven't smelled too much B.O. yet, although that's also a nostalgic smell :) We rode motorcycle bodas today which brings back memories.
Seth and I have tons to talk about and our conversations and time together has been fun and different. I feel like our relationship might be a little different this year as we will become more of a team in our support of each other.
That's about all I have so far- there is tons to take pictures of and I'm looking forward to figuring out my new camera and posting some pics on the blog.
We miss you all!
Love,
MariAnne
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