First full day!

We finally made it! After three long days of travel, we're all glad to finally be here. We all got our luggage safely, except for Rick, but we got a call that said his bag was found, he's now waiting for it while living off of Loren's closet.
Yesterday, when we arrived Joab took us to The Flamingo restaurant, a very nice Chinese restaurant, after that we visited the Kigali memorial center which commemorates the victims of the 1994 genocide. It was a big eye opener for all of us and a sobering moment as well.
Once we crossed the Rwanda border into Uganda, i think that's when we realized that we had actually made it! We're all seeing how poor this country is and are living off near to nothing, it makes all of us realize how much we have. Today we went to Joab's house and unloaded the crate which also arrived safely, which was an answer to prayer. The only thing missing were 4 shoes, all different sizes, so whoever took them is out of luck! We met up with Susanna who's been doing great, but was getting homesick until she saw us! :] Leah and Vicki decided to roam around and saw two small children and got permission to venture outside Joab's walls. Everyone soon joined and handed out candy to all the children and parents. Seeing all of the people gave us the real feeling of Africa and its people. Leah and Vicki's quote of the day is, "We will be seeing Africa through our camera lense." Then we visitied the Kabale Trinity College, which is technically highschool for us at home, and around 2:30 we all got a little jet lag.
While at the school we were warmly welcomed by the praise and worship group (The Gish band)and the dance team. They did an "i love you" dance and a traditional Ugandan dance which involved alot of jumping and stomping. The reason the Ugandans developed the stomping and jumping was because it prepares themfor the hills and climbing them.
Gianna and Cami sampled the Poshu and thought it was fine, but wouldn't want it everyday, all day. During most of the students classes us girls walked around and talked to all of the students who weren't in class. We learned how to say tons of different words in the Ugandan language, Richiga. Such as, dog, tall, how are you, i'm fine, arm, nose, teeth, and so on... Tomorrow we're planning on going to the college first and then to the orphanage while Dave and Gordon are waking up at 6 to travel to Kampala to pick up pipes. The rest of the guys are going to do some preliminary work at the farm.

Randoms:
-Cami, Vicki, Kayla, and Darin played 31 in the middle of the aisle in the airplane on our way to Africa, before we got in trouble and was asked to go back to our seats.
-Rick got three seats to himself and got 6 hours of sleep.
-Gianna yet again fell asleep before we even took off.
-She also tried to sleep on Eric's shoulder.
-Vicki kept telling Kayla she saw elephants, she lied, everytime, but Kayla fell for it!
-Kayla was sandwiched between two sleeping beauties on the plane. Aka Vicki and Leah.
-None of our video screens worked... 9 hours of complete bordum!
-Eric asked if the chicken was actually real chicken and the attendent said, "Maybe!"
-Today we've learned there is no such thing as personal space.. or personal questions.
-Vicki and Leah realized how fascinating cameras were.
-When the students do the welcome clap, you're supposed to bow, which Rick forgot to mention.
-They don't understand the word "boyfriend."
-We were asked if we knew Akon, because he's from Uganda.
-Kayla was told that one of the boys at the school wanted an American girlfriend. Wink wink.
-The dorm rooms are crowded, to say the least. The bunk beds are three high.
-Kayla opened the tea bag and nearly put it in her tea before she realized it wasn't sugar.


And lastly we miss EVERYONE very much.

We're currently on dial up and is rare to even get connection, so we'll do our best to keep everyone updated. But we may not be able to, espacially not with pictures. But we've gotten LOTS :]

We love you all, but we're going to sleep! Goodnight. :]