![]() Many people over the past few weeks and days have asked me what has been running through my head as I prepare for my adventure in Uganda. My answer? Internet, this blog, and packing - more or less in that order. I arrive (caveat: as the title of this post indicates, I still don't have an actual plane ticket yet) in Kampala on Saturday night so I'll have all day Sunday to get set up. I just found out that I'll have wifi in my cottage!! This has been a huge relief. From my research (read: facebook messages with friends of friends) wifi isn't commonplace in Kampala. So my tactic of awkwardly standing outside cafes with free wifi signs to look up walking directions or post that latest Instagram isn't going to work. Now that I know I'll have internet upon arrival, I can continue watching Jane the Virgin and happily delay the following tasks: figuring out where to get a local sim card, looking up walking directions to a grocery store, finding the best way to get to work on Monday, and downloading books to my Kindle. Having wifi also makes it easier to maintain this blog and continue to build out this site. As many of you know, I used to have a food "blog" (it may be a disservice to bloggers out there to call it a blog). Overeating is still underrated, but I'm excited to step up my game a little bit. I've been addicted to Weebly since I started putting this together last week because I've been determined to at least have a few real pages up before sending the link out. This is still a work in progress, but I'm thinking that my lack of any friends in Kampala will allow me to spend some time on new pages. My ask of you? Ask questions, leave comments, and provide feedback on the site! The button to leave comments is right under the Facebook link below. Huge shout out to those of you who have helped me brainstorm and pull this site together. You know who you are. And what should i have been doing instead of reminiscing and looking through old travel photos? Packing. When people find out that I'm leaving on Friday, they all want to know if I'm packed. Um...obviously not. But...as someone who usually doesn't pack Advil or a Band Aid when traveling, I'm trying to be very risk averse in the way I approach packing this time around. I stocked up on all the good stuff - Neosporin, Pepto-Bismol, Mucinex etc. - and even splurged for the brand name items! When I got back from Walgreens last night, I decided that I would start to pack so as not to cause my friends and family so much panic. Meaning I would dump everything I bought onto the floor of my living room. I can figure out how to get it to fit into the suitcase at a later date. So far so good, right? In case reading this post has given you anxiety, here are a few things I do have:
What will I be doing in Uganda? More on that later... Comments are closed.
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