Our bags are packed, our tickets are ready, and suddenly we're a team member down. One of our teachers fell on Friday and cracked her ribs and now she has a collapsed lung. Obviously she is not coming with us. How unfortunate. I wish her a speedy recovery and hopefully she will travel with us next year. She hopes so too but for now she needs to spend the next 14 to 16 weeks being very careful with herself if she wants to make a full recovery.
For the rest of us, we have 900lbs of donations split between our 18 suitcases and then we also have one personal suitcase each to carry. Thank goodness for trolleys to throw our luggage onto.
Our donations this year include:
- cloth diapers
- baby clothes and shoes (Thank you Elizabeth!)
- blankets
- bottles and sippy cups
- medical supplies
- hygiene kits (Thanks to Dare to Be)
- Science equipment (Thanks to Scope Science)
- laptops (Thanks Jon)
- school supplies (Thanks to Raymer Elementary)
- 10 class sets of picture books (Thanks to the students of SD 23)
- craft supplies
- sewing kits (Thanks Elaine)
- kids' shoes
and so much more! People have been very generous as always. Thank you everyone!
Rest and relaxation is what we need now before we start our 29 hour journey. We leave at 3pm on Monday, Kelowna time, and we arrive there at 9pm Tuesday, Kelowna time (7am Wednesday, Uganda time). It will be another exciting journey! There are computers there with Internet so hopefully I will able to be update this blog daily!
Thanks for all your support!
