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Last week I went to visit the friends in Cleveland Ohio. I was a little panicked because I was going with the main man Mich and if my last flight with him was anything to go by I knew we were in for some good drama. This was going to be his second flight in an aeroplane since our trip from Kampala, so I begged Sam to come with us to the airport and make sure we had checked in before he could head back home and do his reading. I couldn't get a flight out of the Philly airport because of the crazy rates, the cheapest was leaving from Baltimore which is about 2 hours away. We were blessed to have our navigator friends offer to drive us there especially. We got to the Baltimore airport in good time and Sam escorted me to the check in point. Things were really smooth because he had done all the paper work for me, I had an eticket and we were also able to book sits and everything off the Internet (sophistication I tell you). After checking in I said bye to Sam and Mich and I heade

I'm really excited and privileged to say we are about to say goodbye to year 1 at Wharton. Classes are over at the school, that means no more lectures for the 1st years and 2nd years are wrapping up and waiting for graduation. It feels great to say 1st year is over, I kind of feel like the student here and in many ways I have been a student. There has been a lot I got to learn in this year, it's not to say I will not be learning any more but I can say that I'm a little bit on top of things. I can talk with authority when sharing my views with the new admits soon to be 1st year students. With all of the intensity that was wrapped up in the first year I can say it was great. Culture shock, finding my way around, making new friends, realising abilities I never knew I had, seeing Mich grow, exposing him to greater learning, ... there is a lot. Getting to experience God in a whole new and intimate way, giving of my time unreservedly in ministry, seeing another dimension to my re

Finally I can say I'm through with the Welcome weekend, it's been busy, it's been fun, it's been great! For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, sometime last year I was nominated to represent the kids club at the schools "new admits week". Here are some of the students I was working with clubs.wharton.upenn.edu/welcome/students.html When we got our ID cards the other day I was impressed with my title, Mary Ongwen , Committee Chair, '08. The last three weeks involved attending meetings once every week, there were times I wasn't up to it but knew I had to be there especially considering that we received emails the day before reminding us how mandatory these meetings were. I made some good friends through out this period, especially colleagues in the Partners Club. See, the Kids Club and Partners Club are separate the basic difference being we have children and they don't. It was a nice time to exchange ideas and work together

OK, so either Ugandans love holidays too much or America is just less spiritual. Easter as I remember it back home is like the longest holiday of the year. We have Holy Thursday (some people skip work), then Good Friday is a public holiday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday, another holiday, I don't get why but it is a holiday. May be it's the States as a whole or just Philly but the only day that is recognised is Easter Sunday. Lets not talk about the Easter Bunny and the eggs because I still have no clue how these things are related to Easter. Sam once had an Easter egg, the contents of the egg were, a nail, a sponge, a stone and a tiny scroll with the words "Christ the King". When the buzz of Easter eggs started here I thought yeee! some more reminders of Jesus death and resurrection, only this time it seemed geared towards the kids. Sam, Mich and I were invited for lunch in Delaware, with some Ugandans the host being a Wharton alumni. We had never met