Dear pope Francis,
Welcome to Ouganda! We are so excited to have you here. We have been anticipating your visit since about a year ago. Well, we hear some gossip overheard a conversation between you and your buddies on a plane (how is this even possible) that you had plans of visiting Uganda. Then later, we heard rumours that all that was a rumour.
I kind of don't know how you changed your mind and decided that you wanted to come to Uganda after all that. One thing I do know however, is that you made the right choice.
We Ugandans are such lovely people as you shall soon find out. We love visitors! When we are expecting a visitor, we shall out do ourselves. We clean up, buy new clothes, decorate, prepare lots of food et al. Now, you are just not a visitor, you are a pope!
I will tell you what we had to do ever since we heard about your visit; we have cleaned up the city, planted flowers, redone pavers (do you know those?-well they are used on side walks). We even had to do a fundraising walk in honour of your visit.We have widened some roads, like the one you are going to use to go to your Ugandan vatican( i was told that is what it is called). You know I actually go by that road every evening on my way home. But just today, I noticed it had a fresh coat of tarmac on one end of it. I am actually happy that it has been made wider. That means that we shall no longer be stuck in traffic jam( that is what we call it here). Oh pope, let me take some time to tell you about this traffic jam nightmare. It is so annoying. Can you imagine being held up for upto 3 hours for a distance that should normally take 20minutes? I tell you! It is terrible, I hope you will not experience any of it while here. Just make sure your entourage moves very early in the morning, that is what I do to beat traffic in this town. Hmmm, I hear it can be worse in other places. Recently, I heard that some motorists were stuck in traffic jam for 3 days! Just over here in Kenya. It was both amusing and scary.
Anyway, I set out to revise for my French test this Saturday and I ended up just saying
Bienvenue! We cant wait to have you in Uganda.
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