Today I needed to visit a friend of mine here and I asked for her address. She did. I had not been there before but I took a bus(or two) and twenty minutes later, rang her door bell.
This was an amazing experience for me! She didn't have to tell me about the major ant-hill, 'huge mango' tree, garbage bin, primary school or billboard on the way. All I needed was an address.
You may not believe it but I learnt our actual home address in Uganda(including the name of the road, plot number etc) only a few months ago when I was filling out some visa application forms! I had lived in that home for about 4 years and I just discovered that I had been living on Grace road! It even had a fancy name :-) In my former life, address had something to do with P. O. Box... which we checked like once every 4 - 6 months. I even wonder how one gets one of those!
Well, this was another one of those days when I thank God for my phone. I'm grateful that it tells me where I am (you have no idea how useful that can be!), where I am going, how and when I can get there and how I can find my way back home.
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