Picture discription: Kampala skyline, (2) visiting the budhist temple, (3) visiting with my grandmother; my dad’s aunt, (4) With a friend from FPC standing in the Nile River, (5) Lake Tanganyika, (6 &7) visiting the khadafi mosque, the biggest mosque in eastern africa, (8) enjoy a walk on the Makerere University Campus.
In case you haven’t been in Uganda, Kampala is the capital city of this east african country. It is one of the most stressful, most crowded, and of course the most fun city I have ever visited. I hope I wont have to live there because it is a bit too much for me to handle but I have truly enjoyed it there. While in Africa, Kampala was just my transit place, I traveled to Kampala inorder to get the buses or planes to the places that I was traveling to. While in Kampala, I took a chance to visit different places, including temples and mosques. In Kampala there are several of temples, mosques and cathedrals that people can visit, I found it very fascinating. Unfortunately, I did not get a chance to visit the Bahai temple which is one of the biggest temple in Kampala.
The life in Kampala was a bit interesting and frustrating, very frustrating because of the numbers of street children, interesting because of the worst traffic I have even seen in life was in Kampala; no traffic rules at all, let’s just put it that way.
Journal Entry (Jan. 3rd): Walking through the streets of Kampala is overwhelming physically, mentaly, and emotionaly. I see so many things that brake my heart and so many things that make my brain go in circles. As I turn the corner from the taxi park, there was a line of street children, one was running after a white couple (mzungus as they call them), another one is sitting on the side of the road begging. However, there is one that caught my attention longer, he was wearing a brown suit and preaching to the passers by, asking them to repent and turn away from their evil ways! This picture put me back to some of my college classes, Is it true that religion is the opium of the poor? As this child is screaming on top of his lungs quoting scripture that he can barely read since he does not look older than 10, my brain really went in circles, and my heart was broken by this picture.
Philippians 4
