When forced to, an individual can watch an alarming number of movies and television show episodes. I think I watched two movies and at least one television show per plane ride, which at 4 planes rides total equals 8 movies and four shows. Wow. I really do understand the warning that television will rot your brain. Or vacuum it; I don't remember the exact words at the moment.
Random moments from the trip:
Our first team bonding experience was in the Amsterdam airport on the way to Uganda. We had filled our Nalgene water bottles in the bathroom sink to take them on the plane. Who knew when we would get water again, right? then we get in line and see it: another set of security scanners. Which means we can't take water through. There were no plants, no sinks, no trash cans...so...we chugged 32 ounces of metallic bathroom sink water in about two minutes. I've never felt ill from drinking water until then. I almost threw up. Instead, we all had to pee like racehorses about twenty minutes into the flight.
We were in Kaberamaido at the end of a very long 11 days in the bush and just wanted to watch Sister Act. We settled in around 8, got comfortable, turned the movie on. We watched the first two lines of the first song and then...blackness. Lino said maybe the pumpkins (his term for children) were playing with it, so he and Haryet went out and turned it back on. And it goes back off. Come to find out, the lady who runs the place turned off the electricity because it was running out. We turned the lights on and it lasted until at least 11pm. I think part of us may have died a little that day.
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