10 Hours to Joburg and Back

I’ve been wracking my brain for something to blog about, and I just can’t think of anything that would be all that interesting for people to read about. Nothing very monumental at least.

We did go to Joburg yesterday to buy a car.. we were successful, but the day consisted of a lotof driving and waiting.

4:30am à wakeup and get dressed

5:30am à pick up Debbie and Kelvin

5:55am à leave Hands Village

10:30am à arrive at the house of the people in Joburg who would sell us our combie

10:45am à my parents, Joshua, and Kelvin left for a test drive, leaving Megan, Debbie and I (for “collateral”)

11:40am à they finally arrive back, after getting lost in Joburg

11:40am-3:00pm à we sit in the couple’s garden, reading the wife’s old magazines, and waiting for negotiations, paperwork, and insurance to be all settled up.

3:30pm à we arrive at the mall, just having bought a new combie, and go to have lunch

4:10pm à we leave Joburg and head back to White River

9:00pm à we arrive home!

Sooo, it wasn’t quite what I was expecting, but it wasn’t actually that bad; just having a change in pace and scenery and getting out was nice for a day. And road trips are always fun J

In case any of you are wondering why we’re buying our own vehicle, when both Hands at Work and Kibaale have vehicles, well let me explain!

First of all, we have to pay to use Hands vehicles, which is very expensive. We also need a vehicle to drive all our stuff up to Uganda in (which some of the guys here are very nicely doing for us!), and not only would that be wayy too expensive using a Hands car, we also wouldn’t be allowed to take it up there on un-Hands business.

And lastly, the most important reason (well maybe not most important, but most unfortunate) we needed to buy our own car is because at the end of May we are going to be homeless! Yes, that’s right, homeless. We are not able to move into Kibaale until the end of July, but unfortunately we aren’t allowed to stay at Hands at Work past May 31^st. So in a few short weeks, we will be packing up all of our stuff, and moving to another, temporary home on a different campus (I’m not exactly sure where we’re moving to, but its something to do with a friend of a friend’s organization I believe), where we will live for the next 7 or so weeks, before packing up yet again, and moving up to Uganda!

Unfortunately, the temporary house we will be moving to soon only has three bedrooms, so we’re back to cramped and very closely shared living quarters L oh well, this separate house of ours was nice while it lasted. Plus, once we arrive in Kibaale, the house we’re moving into has four bedrooms (which will be so nice!) plus a little flat beside it, which I will be able to live in myself! So that’s exciting news.

Sorry that this post isn’t exactly the most riveting of posts (or that there are no pictures.. not even going to pretend to go into all that yet again) but, again, not a lot is going on in our life at the moment, apart from the every day stuff.

Just to tide you over until I can finally come up with something good to write about, here are a few pictures… they are so random I don’t even know what to say about them, but pictures are always fun to see so enjoy!