Week 1. As my first week in Uganda is coming to a close, I thought I would do a little update. My departure from Amsterdam went smoothly; I ended up staying up all night and making to the airport early to avoid sleeping in and missing my flight. As a result, I passed out on the plane for the first six hours. I then woke up surprised to see that the plane was above Sudan and that arrival was only a couple of hours away. I made it to the backpackers hotel in...

Hello, so this wil be my first ever blog entry. I tried this whole thing yesterday, but it didn't seem to go through. I find the word blog to be funny by the way. So, I'll try to recap my explorations of Amsterdam. I started off yesterday morning quite tired from my flight in from Atlanta. And equiped with my sense of direction and not much of a map, about the first thing I did was get lost, finding myself pretty far west from downtown. I spent much of the...