My name is Dominic Hocutt, I'm 16 years old, and the trip to Kampala, Uganda will be my first time traveling outside of the country. I'm actually pretty excited about going on this trip but also equally nervous because it kinda scares me that I'm going to a completely different country. I'm extremely relieved that I'm going with good friends though, including my best friend Caleb Lewis and my other great friend Caroline Hathaway. I think all together there will be about seven teenagers and a couple adults going on the trip. My hopes for this trip are that it opens my eyes up to the world around me more and that in some way I change the life of at least one person over there. I've only been to a couple other states and I hear what happens in other countries through the news but from what I've heard you never really know what its like over there until you've experienced first hand. I've been doing some research about Uganda through the internet and I don't think much of what I'm reading will help me. Honestly most of it is about the environment over there, like how they have the most birds in the world and how they're one of two countries in the world that have mountain gorillas. Which is interesting but I don't think we'll be studying birds or gorillas while we're over there. The most knowledgeable things I think I've learned is to always shake with your right hand and always eat the food they offer you, thanks to a friend named Vitu from Malawi. We're actually going to help this orphanage which our entire church has been helping over I think the past two years. We gave them the money to build a well which I think was an amazing thing to be able to do. So now we're going in person to help some more which I think is also amazing. I'm not all that excited about getting all the shots to go though. I think we have to get shots for yellow fever, hepatitis, tetanus and maybe some others. Caleb doesn't like needles so it ought be entertaining when he gets his shots. I'll be blogging as we get things done for the trip so stay in touch.
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