Sunday morning, my traveling partner and I set out on the 372Km journey from Kampala to Pakwach that was expected to take us 4hrs 53mins on a bus. Close to 7hrs later, we were in this blazing hot environment. The excitement to witness this spectacular occurrence however, made up for the uncomfortable weather. Fully armed with our viewing gadgets, we stormed the local primary school where the event was to be. Our excitement was heightened by the arrival of the president who checked in afew minutes after our own arrival. The number of people that had turned up was unbelievable and most of them having travelled from far and wide. Part of me kept thinking, what if these scientists' predictions were wrong? That day, the sun must have wondered at the sort of care we accorded it as every other minute we were anxious to know what Mr. or is she a Miss Sun was up to as we took turns in pointing our gadgets in the direction of the big ball an observing. The day went by really fast with the usual speeches and entertainment that happens when someone as important as the president decides to share the same space as you.
Time check 5:22pm and allover a sudden every thing changed. The attention was no longer on the president presence or absence when in a flash, the humid weather was exchanged for the coolest weather ; the moon over ran the sun and we got total darkness which lasted for atleast 20 seconds so that some of us could put our cameras to good use.
Hurray! the over hyped about eclipse had finally occurred and guess what, I was a witness!!!
At that moment, the crowd went wild: we screamed, we hugged, we danced, we worshiped God. I knew I couldnot put that experience into words, it was simply awesomely amazing.
Till the year 2114, I and a few people will ever know this experience!
