Mzungu Matatu

Today was our free day so we walked a few blocks from our house and caught a Matatu into downtown Kampala. A Matutu is a shared taxi that looks like a minivan with 15 seats. Kampala is easily one of the scariest places to be on the road. There are no traffic lights and not really any traffic laws nor order to how people drive. Cars and vans drive bumper to bumper, side to side, pretty much cutting off each other on a regular basis. Nobody waits to pull into traffic. Then add in boda traffic (motorcycle taxis) weaving in and out of traffic and in between the cars and vans that are weaving. Then add in bicycles and pedestrians. Every time I looked out the window, I wondered how many people get hit on a daily basis. I learned that it was smarter to just not look out the window.

Tomorrow, we go to Namyoya to attend church services. It will be exciting to attend the first service with an actual roof on the church. We will also visit the family that Dan Clark sponsors.

"This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it." Psalm 118:24