Dear Africa, you helped me write this by showing me to give is priceless.

I left Uganda on Aug 2nd.  I travelled for about two weeks, stopping in Lusaka, Zambia, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Livingstone, Zambia, Kasane, Botswana, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, & Lalibela, Ethiopia.  Some highlights:

1. In Lusaka, Zambia, visiting UNZA.
2. In Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, I fell into a tourist trap and played with some lion cubs.
3. A hippo in the Zambezi River.
4. Some of the estimated 60,000 elephants in Chobe National Park, Kasane, Botswana.
5. Sunset on the Chobe River.
6. Victoria Falls from Livingstone, Zambia.
7. One of the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia.
8. Hiking to Asheton Myriam, one of Lalibela's monasteries.  

Goodbye, Uganda

I leave Uganda in less than 24 hours.  I came on the Friday shuttle to Kampala, and have spent the weekend doing last-minute errands, exploring more of the city, relaxing, and saying (or trying to say) goodbye to some friends and coworkers.  On Saturday, Laura, Vicki (the new princeton africa fellow in Kla) and I left the guesthouse around noon, when a driver came to take Tara to the airport, and got dropped at the shopping malls in town to get some snacks and money.  From there we went and had lunch, then walked around the downtown area, stopping to buy some DVDs, have some smoothies, and go to a couple of craft markets.  On our way back from downtown, I called my friend Josephine from Moroto to say goodbye, as she's at school in Kampala now.  She happened to be in church, but left immediately and came to meet us very quickly, and then took us to her hostel at school so that we could meet her friends and hang out for a while.  It ended up being a lot of fun - she's doing a certificate program at the YWCA, and her roommates/friends are from all over, including Kenya and Tanzania, and Kitgum & Arua Districts.

Some Photos:

1. Laura, Agnes, & I on the shuttle.  We were 9 people from Kitgum to Kiryandongo, and 10 from Kiryandongo to Kampala, though for the second half we were in a minivan, so it was slightly less cramped than the land cruiser.  
2. Laura & I near Karuma when we had a flat tire.
3. The men fixing the puncture.
4. Reaching Kampala.  Perhaps somewhere in Kawempe.
5. Josephine & I in her "dorm room."
6. Looking out the window from her dorm to the taxi park/Kampala Road/City Square
7. In front of the school sign.

I haven't uploaded the pictures I took today, but they were only from the walk to Shoprite and when Agnes came to the guesthouse for a small visit...