Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Another crazy week here at EAC Uganda!! Saturday we were able to sleep in a. Bit and then we headed over to a scripture union party. There were hundreds of high school aged kids who were there to support all of the scripture union leaders who were passing on leadership to incoming kiddos. We next and presented a skit, handed out gift to some of the outstanding leaders, and even was invited on the stage to dance. It was so funny-I was sitting next to another MST from Colorado and she said, " hey wouldn't it be funny if we went up there and joined them" and minutes later one of the students came over to us grabbed my hand and away we went to join them in their dancing....excepts for my friend. (: After the performance we quickly tried to exit the building and were caught!!! The leaders insisted that we stick around to have a bite to eat to show their appreciation...Dylan, Myleigh, Hannah, and I all were very nervous to see what was being served. But here in Uganda it is very rude to turn down food so we had to eat what they gave us and all of it too. So we encouraged and in fact implied that we wanted a very small amount since we had already eaten at the compound. They set up chairs, brought us water, and told us to get comfortable. The plate had two cups of rice and two cups of cooked cabbage(which has made me sick nice I got here and I really cannot eat) a chunk of fried chicken complete with bones and hair and a small potato. I scarfed down as much of the rice as I could and the potato and realize we were coming to a problem all of girls began to exchange looks and facial expressions as to what we are going to do. We ended up finding a small boy from the area and added all of our cabbages and rice and chicken on a plate and he are it all. (:

Sunday we went to Zirobwe again and ran Sunday school. I got to spend time with these three boys and they told me all about what they want to do with their lives when they grow up and asked all kinds of questions about America and all about my family. Alex is a sweetheart him and his little brother stayed after Sunday school and wanted to just play with my hair. Alex wants to become a lawyer and go to college in America. Next is Eddy- he has a sponsor from America whom he loves so much. Eddy tries to act like a to cool for Sunday school kind of a kid but he is such a kind boy who has so many questions he wants to marry a muzungoo. And lastly is Luke who has a younger sister that holds his hand and follows him wherever he goes. Luke wants to become a Doctor.

Monday was our day off because usually Saturday is our day off but we were obviously busy... The girls and I spent two hours doing laundry and hanging them up all over the backyard we filled up all of the clothes lines and then we lined them up all on the barbed wire...bad bad bad idea!!!!! A huge rain storm rolled in and we were outside pulling everything off of the line hoping everything was not going to get wet again. It was actually kind of fun...even though we were all soaked by the time we were done. We also had two guys who run the UK office come in yesterday Dave and Scott is ther names and they are super funny. It's always nice to have fresh faces in the house. We had a planning meeting at 3:00pm and then later made yummy desserts. Ended the night with some DUTCH BLITZ.

Today we went to New brainstorm and handed out bibles to all of the children. They were so excited. We ran the program and Dylan and I lead the worship songs: I love you Jesus, father Abraham, every move I make, Yesu newangu, and JOY!!!! We came home for 22 minutes to get some food and then off to the next project. We went to another high schools scripture union and met two kiddos Sharon and Winne- they asked me what my thought on America were....lol. On the way home we hit another car and it broke the other guys break light and scraped up our van pretty bad. But all in a days work.

On a side note I totally love sitting next to the window in the van- it never gets old. Everyone smiles or glares or waves or sticks their tongue out it is really amusing. Still loving every minute.

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