Getting to Soroti

Day 3

We woke up this morning to a bright sunny day. After breakfast at the guest house, we loaded up our luggage and headed into Kampala. At the Garden City Mall, we met up with Paul and Karen Berg (fellow Northwest Hills members working on EMI water projects for 10 months), exchanged our US Dollars for Ugandan Shillings, and picked up some bottled water at the store. We sent the van of luggage on its way and headed to the MAF airstrip for our 12:30pm flight to Soroti. Driving through Kampala in the daylight we could see many interesting sights. The unpaved roads are very bumpy (especially if are you in the back seat of the van). Traffic was heavy because it was the start of the school children's summer holiday.

Our MAF flight was on a Cessna 208B Caravan 15-seater plane. We took off from the airstrip over the banks of Lake Victoria and then turned to head North over Kampala. The countryside was green and spotted with villages, rivers, and lakes - the most prominent being the Nile and Lake Kyoga. We landed smoothly in Soroti, where we were greeted by Moses Otim in Val's Landy. He took us to the Starlight Guest House were we ate lunch and then rested for a couple of hours.

At 5pm, we walked to the CLIDE Office to meet with Moses and Christine Otim and other CLIDE staff (Judith, Jamez Akoko). After a overview of the schedule for the Timothy Retreats, we ate dinner together - fish and pork with accompanying soup, rice, collard greens, chapati (flat bread), millet bread, and orange juice. After dinner and many laughs with the CLIDE staff, we retired to the guest house for the night.