Lucille Huelsman

Back on American soil

Hello all! I am back in SC. I had missed all of my connecting flights, including the ones that were rescheduled. I guess the plane from Amsterdam to Entebbe hit a bird, so they had to turn around. We had to wait for that flight to come in. We ended up leaving Uganda around 1am, 5 hours after we were suppose to. We were rescheduled all the through to the States. My flight from Amsterdam to Atlanta was delayed 2 hours. One reason is because Pres. Jimmy Carter was on my flight. He arrived late,  but made up for it by shaking almost everyone’s hands on the plane. I got a great pic of the back of his head as well as a video. Since I left Amsterdam late, I missed my connecting fight to Charleston. Luckly it was only a 40 minute flight. I finally got inot CHS at 8. I had to bum a phone call from a guy in Atlanta to call Tommy to  pick me up. Luckly he got my message.

I am adjusting ok to the time change. I picked up a bit of a soar throat yesterday. I spent 6 weeks in Africa and never felt this bad. Oh well. At least I’m home and safe.

About the bombing in Kampala. I had no clue it happended till the next morning. The news isn’t that great there. It happened at 10pm (3pm EST). I was about 15ish minutes from one of the site, but never heard a thing. When we all were finding out info, we learned more from calling our family back home than watching the Ugandan news. I picked up some papers on Tuesday, which are very interesting. Americans are very sheltered with their media than many other places. They printed pics of everything, no sensoring. My group and I stayed low that day. We went to a school to do our program in the morning, but didn’t do anything after that. We ended up going past the restuarant the next morning. One couldn’t tell anything happened. It’s all a shame. I hope to post more pics later on. Right now Tommy and I are hitting the pool.  :)