This will be brief, have poor spelling and bad grammer - it is 11:30 pm at night here & after about 48 hours of travelling i am exhaused. If I ever suggest to any of you again that I am considering taking an 17 hour layover without booking a bed to sleep in talk me out of it.
We are finally here in Uganda and although we have only seen it in the dark it already looks cool beyond measure, i've had a hot shower, am with my most favourite youngest sister and have a comfortable bed waiting for me. Life is looking good.
There will be more later but wanted to write a quick note so you knew we had both arrived safe and sound, John and Samson picked us up at the airport and John is staying at a backpackers with us tonight and we are picking Samson up from his university in the morning as he is going to drive back to Mbale with us...i am bursting with excitement for our time to start so I am heading to bed so I can wake up and explore - oh P.S. Mum and Dad, you would be proud to know that I totally forgot my malaria medication but John says he can get me some here really cheaply, apparently you can also get about 1,000 tabs of valium for USD$10 so if anyone needs some just let me know!! ha ha
Talk to you all soon - Love Lib

It’s only 4 days until Lib and I will have both reached Uganda. 5 until we reach Bushikori. At the moment I’m in America, and very ready to leave for Africa. I’ve been working at a Summer Camp in Pennsylvania, which is predominantly for children with wealthy parents who work, or travel (without their children) during the Summer break. So going to work at Bushikori is going to be an enormous change of environment. It was great to work with those kids, but working at Bushikori is going to be life changing, and something which I am so grateful to be given the opportunity to do. I’m not all that sure of what to expect when I arrive, and I want to say that I’m prepared for anything, but I don’t know that I am. I understand that this experience is going to be difficult, rewarding, confronting, sad, happy… It’s going to be filled with emotion.
I’m extremely lucky, because I have my biggest sister Libby meeting me in Kampala, and she is going to be there with me throughout my entire stay at Bushikori. For those of you who don’t know her she is an amazingly strong woman, and I am so thankful that I will have her there for extra strength during this incredible journey.

Well it's 14 days and counting....after more than a year of thinking and planning I am still not all organised and quite ready to go yet!
Work is taking up the great majority of my time and the race towards getting everything finished before I clock off on the 22nd is speeding up.
I had a BCC commitee meeting on this past Saturday and it was in the back of my mind the whole time that this would be my last one till the new year....next time I sit in Lance and Ella's front room my personal perspective on the issues we deal with shall be changed dramatically. If nothing else, I hope this trip helps me better serve the committe when I get back.
Another event at Lance and Ella's this past weekend was Milly popped over after the meeting and signed up to sponsor a child! Mill (my 2nd youngest sister) is studying Occupational Therapy and her course work is very time consuming, so much that she is unable to work regularly, so she's not exactly cashed up, making her sponsorship mean all the more. The boy she picked is called John Baptist (dude of a name - I love it) so that means Suze and I will be adding him to our special list of kids we'll get to visit with gifts and love sent care of us from thier sponsors - I feel kind of gulity about all the joy and excitement we will have directed at us just because we are the ones handing them out...we have plans to video as much as possible so everyone who is trusting us with thier precious messages will witness the excitement of them being received.
talk to you all soon, Love Lib