the first real day.

okay well we made it here 48 hours later! the journey began with alissa and i sitting in the san diego airport at our gate after having a gross airport breakfast (definitely went with the mickey-d's hash browns) waiting to board the plane. little did we know the plane was already boarded and we were made aware of that little piece of important knowledge through an annoucment over the speakers: "ALEXANDRA WOLTERS and ALISSA SKOG the plane to NYC is now boarded this is your final boarding call!" So we barely made the first plane of three but hey we decided to try again and headed into NYC for a quick dinner during our layover. Luckily we made it back just in time to sit at the airport bar and have a glass of red wine before boarding our 13 hour long plane to dubai! At the bar we made a few friends one girl who will be in uganda for the exact amount of time we will be - in fact we have the same flight home together and a couple who is going to pick up their adopted son in ethiopia! we wont talk about the 13 hour flight all i can say is it was long. my back hurt and i was so thankful to get off the plane in dubai, that is until we found out that it was 8:30 at night and 94 degrees outside! yea so we got a hotel since our layover was 11 hours. sleeping horizontally was amazing. the city was pretty quite, the highlite being that we got to ride on these small boats across a canal where we had dinner. we woke up the next morning to jump on another plane which would first stop in ethopia for about an hour and drop some people off and then headed to uganda for our final leg of the journey that seemed to never end! needless to say the 48 hour journey was the longest journey of my life! it felt so good to finally change out of the outfit that i will probably never wear again or at leastr not for a few months! we arrived at around 3pm in the afternoon uganda time and waited in the ariport for a good two hours for my friend michael to pick us up. we then drove into town, got a special hire to take us to my homestay family's house. we were so warmly greeted by my ugandan family! they gave us the granny flat in the back of the house to ourselves where we have lived up until this morning. alissa and i pretty much slept our lives away for the first day and a half which bit us in the butt come this morning when we both woke up at 3:43 on the dot and couldnt fall back asleep! haha so we each read half a book until about 7:40am waiting for the rain to stop but it never did so we set off in the rain - luckily caught a taxi - and headed into town! today has consisted of us getting a spanish omlette and white bread with butter along with passon juice for breakfast. we then stopped into the sit office and saw martha and charlotte and the rest of the sit gang and now we are sitting in an internet cafe! yea so that's about it so far! excuse my longwindedness and my grammer mistakes i am on a time crunch with the internet! write soon. peace.