In light of what's going on in Southern Sudan with the evacuation of missionaries... I thought I'd share this excerpt from my time in Uganda. This account and most will come from emails I sent home at the time.
"I just got back from Kabale (town near a crater lake near Rwanda) and had a good time. We stayed with an amazing woman who is living there now after evacuating from the Congo last September (2002). She walked out with 900 people and witnessed that blank-look, drug-induced massacre of many people all because they were a different tribe. 😢
We then went to Bushara Island which was beautiful! It is an island in the middle of a crater lake. We "camped" in army type tents that had real beds and a deck built on the front. We had to shower in this partial enclosure where we had to order hot water from the main building and a worker would bring it and pour it in this bucket. Then we had a pull chain to shower. Interesting to say the least. We hiked a bit then decided to take a canoe ride. It was a huge heavy canoe that we thought someone else would be "driving" but they sent us on our own. We didn't get far and were not skilled in moving or turning the boat so after a couple circles, begged the guy to take us. I rowed with him and it was tough. I asked to go back in a few minutes and he said no that we were going around the island...yikes!
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