Bombings in Kampala

So I awoke yesterday planning on heading to the Mukono district and the Naggalama Hospital to help with the eye camp all day. However, our plans changed quickly when we found out that there had been bombings in Kampala over the evening. Two major venues where the World Cup Championship game was being broadcast were bombed by suicide bombers, killing 70 + people. We were put on a lockdown in our house for the day until we had more fact and less speculation. Some of the speculation that we were hearing was rather scary (Al Quida and the Lords Resistance Army), but it turns out the bombs were by terrorist in Somalia. The location where I am living is in a remote area about an hour and a half from Kampala, and we feel relatively safe being where we are. It is just scary to think that one of the bombs went off in a restaurant right near the American Embassy, which is where I was just a week ago. We are grateful that no one from our team was in Kampala on the 11th. There was another American volunteer from another organization that wasn’t so lucky and was killed. Suffice it to say, I am safe and we are free to go about our work today. I will see you all in two weeks!