Musasizis

  Once upon a time... Issue V // November 2022 In November 2021, I finished organizing my home, packing up my things and putting them into storage, selling my car, quitting my job, and saying my goodbyes to friends and family. I have reached one year in Uganda now, and I'm soon coming to one year for our wedding anniversary as well. As you can all imagine, this year has been a multitude of "firsts" and new starts - new country (not new to visit, but new to live), new home, new food, new transportation, new languages, new friends and family. Sam's family has wonderfully welcomed me, and I've been very happy to add a new mother, father, 10 siblings with their 3 spouses, and one nephew. We have our monthly family meetings, and it's a great occasion to hang out and catch up on how our lives are going. I didn't know that time could pass as quickly as this. When the seasons have wavered back and forth between rainy and dry for the past 12 months, it's hard t...

Wairaka B Issue IV // October 2022 We live in a village called Wairaka B (or it may be Wairaka A, I'm not exactly sure where one ends and the next one starts), next to a small town called Bugembe, just outside of a medium town called Jinja, which is a few hours drive away from the crazy bustling capital city of Kampala. Our home is just up the street from the beautiful and lush YWAM Hopeland base, and our landlord is actually a YWAMer. We're situated at the bottom of Mwiri Hill. When the fog starts to settle around the hill in the evening and the moon is dark, the lights of the school perched at the top of the hill look like a floating city. Other times, the morning fog completely blankets the school, and the hill looks very mysterious. Our friend was a former pupil there, and that is how we found out that black leopards live in this area, since he survived a late evening encounter with one on the school football field. I have yet to see any of those wild cats myself, but I run...