A Journey

A Journey

It's _____________ and Julie and Neil are at the check-in desk at Heathrow Airport. They are waiting for their _____. They have a trolley to carry their backpacks with all the necessary _____ and equipment, plus a new tent, mosquito nets and sleeping bags. Julie's _______ are there too. They are a bit worried about the children's trip. Africa is ___________________ and the _____ is in a very remote area.

"We've got a ______________, Julie," says her father, giving her a small package. Julie ____ it. Inside is a ___________.

"Thanks, Mum and Dad, it's _______!" exclaims Julie.

"Now you can _____ us ________ - even from the middle of the savannah!" says her dad.

"And please call ______ regularly. I _____________ that you are _____, dear," adds her mum.

"It's a great present, Mum, thanks very much. Please _________ about me. Everything is going to be alright. Neil's dad is going to meet us in Kampala with a Land Rover and ____ us directly to the _____."

"Yes, Mrs Goodwin - my father ______ the country _______ and he's got a lot of _____ there. It's not ________," adds Neil. Julie's mum _____ but she's not convinced. She hugs her daughter. "Do you think that we've got everything, Neil?" asks Julie.

"I've got the ______things in my ______ and the _____. Torch and compass are in yours," replies Neil. "Have you got your ticket and ________, Julie?"

"Here they are," says Mr Goodwin. "Now, __________ to the assistant there, put your bags here and collect your boarding cards. Your flight leaves from gate 15 in an hour. We have ___________ before you go. Would you like a _____, Julie?"

"Oh, yes please, Dad - and some __________ too!"

"Make the most of it, Julie," laughs Neil. "There aren't any chocolate cakes or milkshakes where we're going!"

It's ____ o'clock and the two friends are on board the Air Ethiopia 747 flying over the African _______. They look out of the _____ at the extraordinary landscape below them, while the ____ flies south. Julie is ______ that the country is ____. "Ethiopia isn't all dry and dusty," she thinks. The white clouds ____ and reveal a region of high plains, rivers and mountains. The ________. The ____ is a hundred different ____ of green. Neil has the ___ and they ___ it, trying to _______ where they are now.

"I think that we're here, Julie, over the _______ of Ethiopia," Neil indicates. "Yes, you're right," says the hostess, arriving with their ____. "We have a stopover in Addis Ababa before we arrive in Kampala. Those mountains that you can see there are the Ch'ok'e Mountains. This part of Ethiopia is very fertile, different from the north, near Sudan - there, a lot of the land is desert. "The children sit in Addis Ababa airport, watching the _____around them. They see ___, ____ Ethiopian women in white _____ and colourful necklaces, carrying their ____ in their arms. They see _____ who are selling ________. They see soldiers in green uniforms, ______ in grey suits, pilgrims in long, striped robes. Everything is _____ and _____, completely different from ______ and ____. Neil and Julie are fascinated!