Friday, April 20
A relatively down day, catching up on sleep and enjoying the scenery of Uganda Christian University. It was a potpourri of experiences:
First, a walk around campus and fresh-brewed cup of Caribou Coffee (we have a travel-size French press along). The campus is beautiful! Many flowers and trees and green all the time.The morning ended with a meeting of Words of Hope Uganda and Vice Chancellor (the equivalent of University President) Stephen Noll. Dr. Noll is a brilliant man with a grand vision for Christian Higher Education in Uganda. Under his leadership the university has added dorms and class room space and grown from 120 students to over 6,000 in ten years. They have a new association with the CCCU schools in the US and they do a Study Abroad program with 40 CCCU students. In fact, we met a Northwestern College student. She is having a great time and is sad to be returning in a little while.
Following this, we tried very hard to go into Kampala for some time "shopping." This proved absolutely fruitless. With no traffic, we should be about 15 minutes from Kampala. But there is NEVER no traffic. It was the worst, actually, that our driver had seen. A combination of the last day of school and protests in the downtown and construction saw us not moving for 90 minutes! We turned around and enjoyed the rest of the day going for a walk, reading, and enjoying down time together.
Here are some more pictures of life around here: School girls on their last day of school, University students studying together outside, and Lauren with Elisia (the housekeeper at the Guest House).
