goodbye, gulu…hello, masindi.

saturday, 7.7 – today was our last day in gulu.  i woke up early and met isaiah in town to finalize our portfolio by having it bound.  it turned out looking really professional…and it was 46 pages long!  after we got it bound, we caught bodas to the second session of the teacher exchange program (last saturday was the first).  it wasn’t too bad…no 2 hour boring speeches like last week.

after we were done, we went straight home, loaded up the mutatu, and left.  it was pretty sad to have to say goodbye to all of the faces that we’ve grown so accustomed to seeing on a daily basis.  it took us about 2 hours to get to masindi, where we stayed for the night.  about halfway there, it started to rain on us pretty heavily, so we had to pull over and pull a bunch of the luggage, which was strapped to the roof, inside to keep it from getting doused.  otherwise, the trip was pretty uneventful, and we arrived around 7.  we put our stuff in the little bungalow-type huts and all met at the lodge for dinner.  i was starving…i had soup and a hamburger and fries…it might’ve been the best burger i’ve ever had…or i might’ve just been so hungry that a spam-and-peanut-butter sandwich would’ve tasted good at that point.

at any rate, the travel went well, the dinner was good, and the bed was WAY more comfortable than the foam mattresses we’ve been sleeping on for the past month!  safari tomorrow…i can’t wait!