Gulu Week 3

This week signaled the beginning of the end of my time in Gulu. What a bittersweet week this has been! I have loved spending time in Gulu. When I first arrived, I had a hard time picturing how I would fill up my time. Yet, now that the days are fast coming to an end, I find myself having more things to do than time to do them.

I feel pretty satisfied, though, with what I have done and accomplished. I have learned a lot – about Acholi culture and language, about how to get around town, about the school system up here, about Vocational schools and requirements, and about how Hope Alive! Gulu operates. I have met many new friends and gotten to know old friends better. I have eaten new foods (white ants!). I have established new routines and new relationships with different business people throughout town (i.e. a shopkeeper, a market vendor, skirt seller, hotel staff, food maker, etc.). I will miss this place. It is difficult to leave. Yet I am looking forward to being home again, having a kitchen, and seeing my friends in Kampala once again.

Here are a few pics from the week:

Kacie and I after a really long, dusty boda ride. (We were literally covered head to toe in dust, with it caked on our faces. The picture does not do it justice!)

Me with some new friends - Scovia and Susan - after the midweek fellowship at Sports Outreach.

Kacie trying out her drumming skills.

On Thursday, Sarah came to visit from Kampala!

Thursday night we had dinner with some of the Hope Alive! staff. It was a nice time of fellowship, appreciating all these men and women do and the impact they have in the lives of so many students.