Amsterdam! Being passed out on benches from fatigue, eating foreign Mc Donald's (Mc Krocket) and sharing hilarious ministry stories in the airport was the extent of our experience of Amsterdam. It was during the plane ride to Uganda when our eyes were opened to a whole new world – looking out the window, your eyes would take a while to realize that what you thought were clouds was in fact the Sahara Desert. The Nile was stretched across the length of our window view leaving us very excited and in greater touch with the reality of where we were about to land: another continent!
As time for landing came near, the sky was split in half between light and darkness with the sun at the center of the seperation. This scene was absolutely beautiful, leading us into both night time and mystery. Without being able to make out the landscape we saw the city lights of Kampala as we flew over before landing in Entebbe. The airport floor crunched beneath our feet as we walked over either dead or dying insects; a reality that vanished from our minds as we were welcomed by the huge smiles of Stella and Patrick: a couple of our Ugandan contacts who are heavily involved in N.E.T. Ministries Uganda.
More smiles welcomed us as we were driven through barb-wired gates and an armed guard as we took our rest in a local convent in Entebbe, the airport city of Uganda. An extremely jovial Sister welcomed us with much smiles and laughter which confirmed the expectation of joy that some of us had. On our way to the toilets geckos welcomed us and stuck to the outside of the window screens, which was extremely cool and fun. It was clear however that we were exhausted from our journey and yearning for sleep. So we prayed our Invocation to the Ugandan Martyrs rolled into our beds covered with mosquito nets and slept with great expectations for the Ugandan sun rise and a great peace in our hearts which was indictive of things to come.
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