I have just returned from a long road trip which I’ll blog about tomorrow because it is so late tonight I want to adequately describe all my thoughts. I have only eaten one egg and a chipati (fried bread) in more than 24 hours. I am dehydrated from the trip because literally there is no place to stop and no place on the road much without people everywhere to go to the bathroom. I re-hydrated with three bottles of water and took my malaria meds after eating some granola. I cannot wait for breakfast!!
I decided not to go on the driving safari this time because I just wanted to spend all the time I could meeting orphans and going to different villages. I got to see baboons everywhere on the road though so that made up for it!
I have so much to say so many things to describe and if you bear with me I’ll try tomorrow to do that, but for now know that I appreciate all your prayers, and you cannot imagine how much it meant to me!
For those of you who don’t know much about the area I was in…I was in the North part of Uganda near the Sudan border. I visited war Displacement Camps, and orphanages there.
What I saw would shock most of you. I hope it will stir you to want to do more for the world and so tomorrow I’ll start to tell all my stories.
I cannot wait to read your stories. I will work very hard to promote this country! Baboons are mean.Keep up with the water Lori!
These baboons were quite docile waiting patiently for scraps of food to be thrown at them from the car. Up near Jinja where I am now, the baboons were all killed because they were destroying crops. They in fact killed all the animals naturally occurring in this beautiful rain forest. I asked my driver what the people felt about this, and he said there was a deep sadness, because every tribe here has an animal representative. To see them being eliminated completely in this gorgeous rain forest was devastating for the people. Now there are just some birds and a few monkeys and probably other small ones.