Finally at Gulu

We arrive in Gulu !!! So it is 6:50 a.m. and I have had my first cold shower at the house. I guess it will take a little getting used to because it was cold. Yowser. It was so fun to see Jamie and Margo and Sarah and some of the other people at the IC house. Jamie is now in charge of running the house, and he seems to have brought a lot of his joy and zest for each moment into the job. For those of you who saw the video of me leaving the front gate, you will remember Jamie as the narrator of that piece. “A beautiful day at the Invisible Children house. Enter John Magee.” I actually am located one bedroom away from where I was last year. The ride from Gulu we took in a 28 passenger van, so we had our 19 teachers and Amy and Catherine for the whole trip. It was a relatively uneventful trip, until we hit a guy on a bicycle. 2/3 of the way into the trip, a young man on a bicycle just cut across the road as we were probably going about 50 mph. All of us held our breath as in a split second we imagined the worst. The driver honked and slammed on the brakes, and the bicycle and the young man appeared as big as life in the front windshield of the bus. In the end, we probably clipped the back 4 inches of his bike, and all of us breathed a sigh of relief.
I sat on a jump seat, that had far less cushion as a regular seat, but I chose to endure butt pain for more leg room. We essentially sat 4 across without an aisle and it was a tight fit. I had Josh and Allison on one side, and Bre on the other side. Bre is a good friend of Angie G. from last year. We tried to watch the movie, “War Dance” but my battery died with about 10 minutes left in the movie, so we used our split head phones to share music on our iPods. It was a blast, we had a great dance party, and Bre has a great laugh and a great smile. We listened to Austin and the best Prince dance song ever. "Good Morning, Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and something something girls.

John