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All my Uganda pics are finally up and on flickr. I just finished going through tagging and adding descriptions to them. All total there ended up being like 316 photos. It takes a while to upload that many to flickr even on my fast cable connection. Anyway, I hope you enjoy them!
I’ve felt a little weird since coming back but I’m not sure it is really reverse culture shock. It is almost the lack of it that has me feeling strange. In some ways, I feel like I should feel different now that I’m back in the US after going to Otino Waa and the fact that I don’t feel terribly different feels weird. I think part of what makes trips like this one a little different for me is the fact that I’m not really shocked to encounter suffering. Between my general world view and my knowledge of current events, I realize that most of the rest of the world leads a truly horrible existence between wars, famine, and disease. Now, Otino Waa struck me as exciting because of the fact that most of those things exist outside of the school. The kids are all well fed, well educated, and sleep in relatively nice accommodations. Still, the way that everyone was telling me about how different I would be after coming back I think has thrown me a little.
Even while we were in Africa I was telling someone that it is kind of funny that I ended up on the trip considering I don’t really have any interest or sense of calling when it comes to global missions. I just like to travel and take pictures. I should point out that I’m grateful for the chance I had to go and I believe we did a really great thing while we were there (building the house). Yet, I also feel oddly “normal.” I’m not really any more or less passionate about missions than I was before we left.
Anyway, I guess all of that is to say that I’m still mulling over how I feel about the trip and what God was trying to teach me now that I’m back stateside. I haven’t had much time to do any thinking though as I’ve been terribly busy with work since getting back. Hopefully after this next week things will calm back down just a little and I can take stock of life. Getting together to share photos this Friday will be good too. Well, I think that is it for now. I hope you enjoy the photos. Later!
