A reunion

L - R Graham Carr who is on the UK partners Board of Trustees,  John Wain who is now an advisor to the Board, Luke Foster, a curate who is interested in coming to work at UCU, John Senyonyi, Peter Ackroyd who is on the UK Partners Board and was at UCU for a sabbatical term five years ago, Ruth Senyonyi, me.

I was very excited about seeing Ruth and John Senyonyi when they were in England this week. But when we walked into the Carrs' sitting room and saw them there, I literally filled up with happiness and felt a huge beam spread over my face, which seemed to stay there all day. It was as though a bit of Ugandan warmth and sunshine was in the room. There was so much to talk about, updates on UCU, our friends, their family, and it felt so normal to be sitting chatting with them.  

It was sad and felt surreal saying goodbye to them, but overall the day made me feel good: blessed to have such lovely Ugandan friends, blessed to have been part of UCU, blessed that we still have a role to play in supporting its work and introducing new people to it, blessed to be friends with the Carrs who are such a model of hospitality and so gracious, blessed to know people like John Wain and Peter who are willing to give their time and expertise freely to help UCU, blessed that we can and will still see friends from Uganda as the world is so much smaller now, and people do travel across the globe. 

It was a really great day.