(morning fog in the hills over Kabale)

This will be my last post. I wish I could keep sharing stories and photos, but I need to focus on some other things now. I hope that someday I’ll have an opportunity to share my life with you (especially my Meadowvale Church family!) over a blog again someday. It has been fun, and I’ve appreciated your interest and encouragement very much!

Something to live out in the new year:

“And I think that’s what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.”
— Shane Claiborne (The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical)

Dear Engineers,

Please consider going to Africa for co-op. I really think you could gain some valuable experience in many fields of engineering. For instance, as a Civil you might have the chance to build 4-storey scaffolding out of sticks and rope. Or you might be part of the 60-man workforce paid $1.23/day to haul water up and down ramps to make cement since motorized machinery is too expensive. Important professional experiences that you really can’t get in Canada, where labor laws and Workplace Safety Committees make things so difficult.

Dusty Kampala at Sunset

Nicole and I took a trip to “Uganda’s ONLY Skating Rink” above the casino in Kampala.

The rink has no ice. At first we were confused. Then very disappointed. It was an emotional rollercoaster.

An employee explained that ice is too hard to maintain in a hot climate, so you just put on skates and push yourself around on the white plastic! We decided to save our $3 and not try it out (he also said they had never sharpened the skates).

On our daily ice cream stops, we passed “Tasha’s Pub” in the outskirts of Kampala.