Washington

Judging from my previous postings it must be obvious that this Ugandan girl is getting settled. Atleast I haven't written anything dramatic, these past posting have pretty much been journeys within my mind and heart. You get to do alot of that when you are placed in unfamiliar sorroundings, thus the 40 days Jesus spent in the wilderness.

Last Saturday, we took a brief break from the life in the city of brotherly love and headed to Washington DC. It was 2 hour bus ride organised by the International Students Programme, that was cool, it was a cheaper fare, you get to go with other "green" people and that makes its all the more fun.
The best part about this trip was that a friend of ours Mercy, was going to be our tour guide and host for the day. Well there was nothing to write home about the journey but certainly lots to see when we actually got to DC.
We were dropped off at the National Air and Space Museum, I thought that would be really exciting but unfortunatly the physician in me didn't even raise his head. There were Old planes, Rockets and a lot of Science in there, Mich on the other hand was ecstatic, he couldnt believe there was a whole building full of big toys. We had to run after him, grab him, carry him, run after him, grab him again... you get the picture. He was pushing people away every time he saw something he liked and that was pretty much for everything. Sam was alittle too embarrased he decided we should wait for Mercy outside, he was not about to leave school and get a job to pay for the damages.
Within no time Mercy was there, it was a fantastic reunion, I hadnt seen her in months. The last time we had met was very brief, less than 2 minutes, so I was pretty much seeing her again after a year. We sat by the museum for a bit and then she took us to see some of the sites of DC. World War II Memorial,Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, that was good for the day seeing us we were walking and Mich was not too excited about that. We all took turns in carrying him however when we reached the World War II memorial Mich decided it was time to swim, he got aunt Mercy to take off his shirt, knowing that his mum wouldnt buy the idea. Aunt Mercy on the other hand thought he was just feeling hot until he began to take off his pants. No worries nothing happened, we saved the day, just to make him feel better we took him as close to the water as we could.
We later caught a cub and headed off to Mercy's condorminium, very posh place, God has definately been good. We managed to chat with her hubby Moses who is currently in Sweden over a system called "G Talk" technology is really going far, it was pretty much like an audio conference. She prepared assumptuous lunch, very tasty, we watched a movie, had wonder chapaties and were good to go. I know.... Wonder chapaties' is not the actual name they are called "Paratha", these are chapaties that are already rolled and all one has to do is heat them in a frying pan, no cooking oil and they are ready. They are fabulous, I think someone should introduce them in Uganda because honestly after the 45 minutes I spent the previous day making chapos, this was a piece of cake, less than a minute.
She fed us so well, supper was catered for we just got home and slept, that was about 10pm.