This is the White Horse! As you can see, it's at the top of the mountain with beautiful landscaping and amazing views of the surrounding countryside. The individual rooms with steep roofs are so unique!
-Cami (-:
Friday, April 24, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
59 days!
Thoughts from Cami...
We are leaving for Uganda in 59 days!! It's so hard to believe. Everything keeps reminding me of Uganda (I've been there twice). Early one morning last week, I stopped to listen to the birds chirping away in the trees. They were actually pretty loud. It reminds me of mornings at the White Horse, with the birds trilling away at full blast long before it's time to get up (but here we don't hear any prayers from a nearby mosque at an unearthly hour of the morning).
The White Horse is the hotel where we have stayed on the past two trips and where we are going to stay on this trip. The White Horse is a fun place. Each little "cabin" is separate from the others. They all have tall, steep roofs that look to me like little steeples. The White Horse is one of the nicest places to stay in town--the walls are decorated with pictures of visiting dignitaries. But life there still has its...moments. Electricity will go out every so often, for a period of 5 or 10 minutes. And if you all head back to the showers at once, be sure to be the first one in. You might run out of hot water. The staff at the White Horse are some of the nicest people, so eager to please. When we are there, we make friends with the staff. One of my most memorable incidents of the White Horse was when we were having dinner in the large eating area. The roof, of course, is high and steep, and it looks to be thatched. We were eating when suddenly I saw a large brown object fall from the ceiling onto one of the (empty) tables, sit still for a moment, and then scurry away. A rat! I gasped somewhat loudly but then didn't say anything, because I was afraid to offend the staff. Naturally, my group wanted to know what the deal was (heart attack, choking, epilepsy, etc) so I just pointed at the little brown creature. The staff's reaction? Laughter, and something in the vein of "you haven't seen that before?". Now, don't get me wrong. Animals don't just fall out of the ceiling all of the time. But when they do...!
Another thing that reminds me of Uganda is my left arm. I got immunized yesterday. I only had one shot (others were less fortunate), a typhoid shot. I'm still a little sore, perhaps because I'm babying it? (-: At any rate, I can't do much before I feel the protest from my left shoulder. It is then that I think..."I'm doing this because I'm going to Uganda!!" And nothing short of traveling to the other side of the world would make me get a shot.
We are leaving for Uganda in 59 days!! It's so hard to believe. Everything keeps reminding me of Uganda (I've been there twice). Early one morning last week, I stopped to listen to the birds chirping away in the trees. They were actually pretty loud. It reminds me of mornings at the White Horse, with the birds trilling away at full blast long before it's time to get up (but here we don't hear any prayers from a nearby mosque at an unearthly hour of the morning).
The White Horse is the hotel where we have stayed on the past two trips and where we are going to stay on this trip. The White Horse is a fun place. Each little "cabin" is separate from the others. They all have tall, steep roofs that look to me like little steeples. The White Horse is one of the nicest places to stay in town--the walls are decorated with pictures of visiting dignitaries. But life there still has its...moments. Electricity will go out every so often, for a period of 5 or 10 minutes. And if you all head back to the showers at once, be sure to be the first one in. You might run out of hot water. The staff at the White Horse are some of the nicest people, so eager to please. When we are there, we make friends with the staff. One of my most memorable incidents of the White Horse was when we were having dinner in the large eating area. The roof, of course, is high and steep, and it looks to be thatched. We were eating when suddenly I saw a large brown object fall from the ceiling onto one of the (empty) tables, sit still for a moment, and then scurry away. A rat! I gasped somewhat loudly but then didn't say anything, because I was afraid to offend the staff. Naturally, my group wanted to know what the deal was (heart attack, choking, epilepsy, etc) so I just pointed at the little brown creature. The staff's reaction? Laughter, and something in the vein of "you haven't seen that before?". Now, don't get me wrong. Animals don't just fall out of the ceiling all of the time. But when they do...!
Another thing that reminds me of Uganda is my left arm. I got immunized yesterday. I only had one shot (others were less fortunate), a typhoid shot. I'm still a little sore, perhaps because I'm babying it? (-: At any rate, I can't do much before I feel the protest from my left shoulder. It is then that I think..."I'm doing this because I'm going to Uganda!!" And nothing short of traveling to the other side of the world would make me get a shot.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Uganda or bust!
We are going to Uganda!! We are involved in a whirlwind of preparations for our trip, which is coming up in only 66 days! The team members for this trip are:
Cami Denlinger
Darin Denlinger
Gianna Gallo
Rick Gray
Levi Heinrich
Eric Layman
Kayla Layman
Leah Layman
Vicki Nyberg
Gordon Rumble
We are traveling through Plant a Seed Foundation, to a school called Kabale Trinity College in Kabale, Uganda. Kabale Trinity College (KTC) is a Christian school that is committed to furthering the gospel and offering a higher education to students ages 13 to 20. Our trip is from June 14, to July 1, 2009. (If you would like to find out more about Plant A Seed Foundation, visit plantaseed.org to see what great things they are involved in).
Our focus on this trip is called “Project: Irrigation.” The school enrolls approximately 1500 students, and 800 of those are housed at the school, as orphans or boarders. The school maintains a farm that enables them to offset the cost of feeding so many students by raising some of the food they need at the school. This farm has no irrigation system and, during the dry season, the water has to be carried by hand to the field. On this trip, our goal is to raise enough money to install an irrigation pump and system to help sustain the farm. An irrigation system will also allow for crop diversification, which will help vary the student diet. As it is, the students at KTC receive three meals a day of poshu & chapatis: cornmeal, beans, & tortillas. I have personally had a chance to taste this meal and I can say that variety would be welcome!
This trip also gives us the opportunity to visit orphanages in the area and spend time with the children there. We will spend time with the children, ranging in age from two to seven, and help point them toward Christ. We will also be spending a lot of time with the students at KTC. We will be building strong relationships with students and also learning about life in Uganda.
Every one of us is incredibly excited to have this special opportunity to travel halfway around the world and see life through a different set of glasses. Please pray for us as we travel to Uganda.
Cami Denlinger
Darin Denlinger
Gianna Gallo
Rick Gray
Levi Heinrich
Eric Layman
Kayla Layman
Leah Layman
Vicki Nyberg
Gordon Rumble
We are traveling through Plant a Seed Foundation, to a school called Kabale Trinity College in Kabale, Uganda. Kabale Trinity College (KTC) is a Christian school that is committed to furthering the gospel and offering a higher education to students ages 13 to 20. Our trip is from June 14, to July 1, 2009. (If you would like to find out more about Plant A Seed Foundation, visit plantaseed.org to see what great things they are involved in).
Our focus on this trip is called “Project: Irrigation.” The school enrolls approximately 1500 students, and 800 of those are housed at the school, as orphans or boarders. The school maintains a farm that enables them to offset the cost of feeding so many students by raising some of the food they need at the school. This farm has no irrigation system and, during the dry season, the water has to be carried by hand to the field. On this trip, our goal is to raise enough money to install an irrigation pump and system to help sustain the farm. An irrigation system will also allow for crop diversification, which will help vary the student diet. As it is, the students at KTC receive three meals a day of poshu & chapatis: cornmeal, beans, & tortillas. I have personally had a chance to taste this meal and I can say that variety would be welcome!
This trip also gives us the opportunity to visit orphanages in the area and spend time with the children there. We will spend time with the children, ranging in age from two to seven, and help point them toward Christ. We will also be spending a lot of time with the students at KTC. We will be building strong relationships with students and also learning about life in Uganda.
Every one of us is incredibly excited to have this special opportunity to travel halfway around the world and see life through a different set of glasses. Please pray for us as we travel to Uganda.
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