Sorry I missed last week. Been a bit of a weird slash lazy few weeks.
10-16-10
Work on some computer stuff in the morning until two of the students, Fida and Gloria (one of them) come up and give me a necklace and a bracelet. (I later find out the ridiculousness of the necklace but they just tie it on so I don’t really see it) We then play cards for most of the rest of the day. They teach me this card game of theirs that is kind of like Uno, but the rules are crazy and it seems like they make them up on the spot. After the card game go out and play soccer with the kids, for so long that I miss my Skype date with my parents. Sorry guys. Skype some till internet quits and then setup to watch Shriek with the kids; then the rain starts to come. Tom and I grab our rain jackets and create a shuttle service for the kids back to their homes using the girls’ umbrellas. Really fun because the rain is so thick that if you step in a puddle you can go up over your ankles. We get back dry off and hit the sheets.
10-17-10
Fun Sabbath with the kids that goes a little something like this; Church, then soccer and then some cards. After dinner the team gathers in the girls’ room and we watch “Quantum of Solace” on Brynn’s computer before bed.
10-18-10
Work on some computer stuff in the morning. We are working on getting a computer for the teacher and students setup. So I go through and get all the VOH documents off of it and on to an external hard drive until we go to teach English at 12:20. We teach P5 on Monday and it goes well. We have been reading a book by Roald Dahl called “George’s Magical Medicine.” It seems like the kids are not that good at reading, until you think about the fact that this is there second language. After lunch Mike and I work on smoking out some bees that are nesting in the staff housing. Then we take a team trip down to Ochan Gabriel’s (tangerine guy). Play some darts with the workers until bed.
10-19-20-10
Couple of lazy days. Only teach English to P6 on Tuesday in the morning and install some more of the software programs on the teacher/student computer. Just kinda waiting till we go to Gulu on Thursday. But of course, played some cards with the kids. I love playing that card game of theirs. ☺
10-21-10
Wake up and pack quickly before we head into town to catch a bus to Gulu. Literally get accosted by Taxi drivers looking to drive us there. Mike just walks up and says, “do not take a taxi. Might take you two days because they stop at every small town.” Thanks Mike. We wait for the bus and get on with no problems. Arrive in Gulu and hit up Coffee Hut and feel like we are back in America. Head to Roma and see some of our favorite staff again until we head out for Pizza at Sankofe.
10-22-10
Wake up to omelets and a good discussion about a book we are reading in the group called “Crazy Love” by Francis Chan. We head out to Coffee Hut again to do some interneting and realize we forgot one of our adapters for charging the laptops. But we meet some friends in Coffee hut who let us use theirs. Go and pickup Bright (Rose’s son one in the pink listening to Shane and Shane with me on FB) with Charles (Rose’s husband) from nursery school and it is super fun. Just about every kid there is seeing a white person for the first time I think so they are all super excited to see us. Bright is his normal quiet self but it is super good to see him. Hang out at the hotel until I redo the Skype date with my parents. It goes well and works great; awesome to talk to them. Get some more pizza for dinner before heading back to Roma.
10-23-10
Tom, Erin, Leilah and Suz leave on the bus to go back to the land for the weekend and Brynn and I stay in Gulu for one more day to do some filming for the Beads of Hope project. It is a part of VOH where one of the IDP camps, Koro Abili, makes beaded necklaces out of scrap paper and then they get brought back and sold in the US. Brynn and I see Mike and Rose in Gulu. Mike is up in Gulu because he is waiting for the well company to meet him to test for water for the well on the Gulu land. Very exciting times for VOH to think about already starting a second plot of land and being able to move in even more kids. We eventually head out to the camp and see Azunta and our friends from the camp there and do filming for the beads. It goes very well and we get out of there before the rain comes. Brynn and I do Sankofe for the 3rd night straight and then head back to the Hotel.
10-24-10
Go to Coffee Hut in the morning because the power is finally back on after 2 days of nothing. We talk to Rose and she is going to Obiya IDP camp tonight and we decide to stay in Gulu and go to that camp with here to do some work on the Child Sponsership stuff. We have probably 90% of the 450 kids in the system done with picture and interview but getting that last 10% will be hard. We have a nice and relaxing day of going to the market and getting some of the details of our Kenya trip (in November) figured out before Rose picks us to head out to Obiya. Charles the driver comes with us and it is super good to see him. This is the camp with Oblyia Prossy. She is 12 years old and is in P7. (Most kids are about 14 in P7) She wrote a poem that Brynn and I filmed that is very good. Check it out on Brynn’s blog. We call Prossy the Ugandan Hipster. She is super great and it super fun to be back at that camp again. We talk with Rose about kids like Prossy going to secondary school. (equivalent of High School) Basically it sounds like she will probably not go because secondary school is much more expensive. It is like 300,000 schillings per semester for a good one and 100,000 for a crap one. Also there are three semesters. So when a person is making a salary of about 5,000 schillings a day, (a nicer standard of living) even if they worked 365 days a year, to it will be about half of a years wages to send one kid to a nice secondary school. So what will happen to Prossy, she will probably drop out and try to find work but will most likely get married off to someone. This is why there is such an urgency to get kids out of the camps and sponsored. Every year that passes is one more year that a kid will get closer to dropping out of High School. We just make it out before the rain and Brynn and I make a dash for Coffee Hut for dinner.
10-25-10
Wake up and meet Nighty and Azunta in the morning. Pack up quick and catch a bus back to Bweyale. Sit next to a man named Dennis, who is a very nice guy who is an engineer for a well digging company. Get to ride a motorcycle back from Bweyale to the land. It is really nice to be back at the land and to see all the workers and our friends. (we plan our timely arrival back with lunch) We missed our English lesson though which is very sad but Leilah helped out Erin so it went great. Do some washing of clothes and cleaning of the hut until the kids get out of school and then, yep, up to play cards. After dinner I head out to play darts with the workers. My first game I was on fire and actually won a game. I told them I was practicing in Gulu.
10-26-27-28-10
Couple of easy days. Just do some English, reading and taking some pictures for Les from the Hawaii team for his video that he is making. Once kids are done with school I play soccer with them. Brynn and Suz are both not feeling well so we are praying for them. On Thursday we have another huge snake find. 1.5 Meter longs. It came along the school building and one of the teachers walked out and saw it. All the kids ran out of the classrooms and grabbed the landscaping bricks and starting throwing them at it. Pretty exciting. We hear of a sighting of a huge one, probably 8-10 feet long that is hanging out down by the well. Everyone is pretty nervous about it. Take a walk out to Gabriel’s on Thursday.
10-29-10
Wake up to cows in the Casava fields in the morning. So Mike and some of the guys go out around 4am and round them up into our pen. We find out in the morning they are a neighbors and the cowboy who was watching them was not paying attention. They walked in down by the well and then headed through the camp to the fields. It’s a good thing we had our fence up or they would have gotten into more. But we still need to get the last section done which would just be a fence gate for down by the well. So that makes for an eventful morning. Go and do some typing of the blog before getting online and do my Internet time. Go and do some reading and forget to post my blog. Kids get out of school and we play some futball until dark. Dinner and then just some quality chill time with the kids while they are at prep. Prep is kinda like an organized Homework time. So we usually get to do a lot of one on one teaching which is really fun. Hit the sheets afterwords.
Thanks for reading this far, this upcoming week will be interesting because Mike and Janelle will be gone until next Sunday at least because Mike is doing a Bee Hive school with the agriculture guy Geoffrey. Very excited to taste VOH hunny!
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
Week 8!!!
Week 8. Time files when you are having fun.
10-8-10
Get a nice morning wake up to the sound of a rat in our ceiling. So what do Tom and I do, sleep till morning. After breakfast we talk to Mike a bit because it is really quiet around here with all the workers being gone for the holiday. (Ugandan Independence October 9th) Mike tells us about his life his life and the piece that hits home for me is “I’m 56 and I’m still discovering that life is getting better the closer I get to God.” I want to be 56 and talk like I have got my whole life in front of me. Mike is a cool guy. Besides that just a read and hang out day.
10-9-10
Ugandan Independence! So we celebrate by having pancakes that the women in my life so graciously made for us. Thanks Ladies! Play with the kids all day, from shooting slingshots, to having them tell me I don’t know how to clean my shoes, to reading my bible with them. We have spaghetti for dinner then a movie with the kids on the projector. Tonight we sleep with the kids. There are four houses. I sleep in Grace, Tom sleeps in Mercy, and then the girls split between the two girl’s houses Hope and Love. That is super fun. These kids basically get to have a sleepover everyday of there life. Awesome.
10-10-10
Sleep turns out good in the kids’ house. I brought my mattress up and slept with that on the floor. Wake up and go to church. After church play soccer till lunch. Read and sleep until dinner. Try to use internet to Skype home but it is still down. Sorry guys.
10-11-10
Do Mike and Janelle’s interview in the morning for the documentary and that goes very well. I read some reading until lunch and then make a bookshelf for the library after lunch with Tom. Do an English lesson with the kids at 2:30 with P5, which is the second oldest group and it goes pretty well. Hang out till dinner because the workers will not get back until tomorrow. George gets back from Kampala after dinner and we figure out the Internet before heading to bed.
10-12-10
Wake and hear people! The workers are back! Hang with them at breakfast and kill time on Brynn’s computer fixing a few things till English at 9:50 with P6. I love P6! They are a lot of fun and I really like the age group. (12-15 years old) After English, show Brynnn the few changes I did on the computer and figure out the problem with Mike and Janelle’s Internet. Head back and help do teardown of one of the temporary huts to make a permanent one with the work crew. Eat and have a little activity of hunt the cobra after lunch. The workers find a Cobra in the grass about 100 feet from our eating area and proceed to hunt it down. Bosco eventually finds it and killings it with a six foot tall piece of wood. Pretty exciting! Do some reading before Solomon and I go for a walk into town to get some tangerines and get his pants fixed. In town we pay 600 schillings for 12 tangerines or a little under 25 cents per tangerine. Then we meet a boy named Opio and who takes us back to his hut for more. We meet his dad, Gabriel, who speaks great English and is very nice. We get a taste test of some of the tangerines at no cost and eventually brings us a bucket full of them and says 1,000 schillings. We get 50 tangerines for less than 50 cents that we picked right before our eyes. It does not get any more fresh or good than that. We head back for dinner and then bed.
10-13-10
Breakfast, reading and then help Kinyera Geoffrey with the fencing until lunch. The rest of this week will be interesting because Mike told the three heads, Bosco of the masons, Ochen Geoffrey, of the woodworkers and Kinyera Geoffrey, of agriculture team, that we are going to do some weeding out and to make a list of the workers that are not good and we will let them go. After lunch help some more with the fence until we run out of the nails close to quitting time and head back in. I find out then that I got really burned. It would be great if I was Acholi and did not have to deal with that.
10-14-10
Have a bad night of sleep but have French toast in the morning so it is all good. Do some laundry after breakfast and do it until I rip open a cut on my hand and have to give the rest to one of the cooks, Grace. She gladly accepts because it means extra money in her paycheck. After laundry go to the office and work on loading the pictures of the kids into the child sponsorship excel sheet until lunch. I finish up with that after lunch and am very happy that it only took about an hour to do. I thought it was going to be like a four hour process. Go back to the hut, read and nap. I wake up to Brynn saying that we are going to do Joyce’s interview in like an hour! I shake out the cobwebs and get ready. Joyce is a big one because she is the one of the kids we followed around for a day. The interview goes well from what we can tell because it was all in Acholi and it was clearly hard to tell her story just from her body language. But was really great see her perk up when we asked about her future and what she wants to do. Brynn and I are going to be doing Rose’s interview tomorrow morning so we get everything down to the office to get charging again. Do dinner and then team meeting about planning a trip to Gulu and possibly to Kenya as well. ☺
10-15-10
I know I usually do not do today but did Rose’s interview in the morning and it was very hard. We chose a spot that was not ideal for sound so lots of background noise that we had to redo stuff for but all things said and done it is good. After the interview all of the workers have gone home for the day because there has been some complications with the wire transfer for the money from the states so we just shut down for the day. Adam arrives here and is gonna spend one of his last few days in Uganda with us. We are super excited to have him here and are really gonna miss him when he has to go. Rose leaves after dinner to Gulu and takes a few of the workers with her. Could be a long weekend once again. Hang out with Adam and the girls the rest of the day I guessing but if anything important happens I’ll let ya know.
That’s it. It looking more and more like Tom will be leaving in November and not staying for the whole time so that is a bummer but being a friend’s wedding is pretty important too. Besides that it has been really good here and the time is really starting to go quickly. I can’t wait to see what comes of the next few months and also now that we have all of our main interviews done we are going to be going into editing phase and so pray for diligence in getting that done and for having the patience to get that done. Thanks for reading. I have to figure out a way to give a prize to people who read all of these… you guys are so great.
10-8-10
Get a nice morning wake up to the sound of a rat in our ceiling. So what do Tom and I do, sleep till morning. After breakfast we talk to Mike a bit because it is really quiet around here with all the workers being gone for the holiday. (Ugandan Independence October 9th) Mike tells us about his life his life and the piece that hits home for me is “I’m 56 and I’m still discovering that life is getting better the closer I get to God.” I want to be 56 and talk like I have got my whole life in front of me. Mike is a cool guy. Besides that just a read and hang out day.
10-9-10
Ugandan Independence! So we celebrate by having pancakes that the women in my life so graciously made for us. Thanks Ladies! Play with the kids all day, from shooting slingshots, to having them tell me I don’t know how to clean my shoes, to reading my bible with them. We have spaghetti for dinner then a movie with the kids on the projector. Tonight we sleep with the kids. There are four houses. I sleep in Grace, Tom sleeps in Mercy, and then the girls split between the two girl’s houses Hope and Love. That is super fun. These kids basically get to have a sleepover everyday of there life. Awesome.
10-10-10
Sleep turns out good in the kids’ house. I brought my mattress up and slept with that on the floor. Wake up and go to church. After church play soccer till lunch. Read and sleep until dinner. Try to use internet to Skype home but it is still down. Sorry guys.
10-11-10
Do Mike and Janelle’s interview in the morning for the documentary and that goes very well. I read some reading until lunch and then make a bookshelf for the library after lunch with Tom. Do an English lesson with the kids at 2:30 with P5, which is the second oldest group and it goes pretty well. Hang out till dinner because the workers will not get back until tomorrow. George gets back from Kampala after dinner and we figure out the Internet before heading to bed.
10-12-10
Wake and hear people! The workers are back! Hang with them at breakfast and kill time on Brynn’s computer fixing a few things till English at 9:50 with P6. I love P6! They are a lot of fun and I really like the age group. (12-15 years old) After English, show Brynnn the few changes I did on the computer and figure out the problem with Mike and Janelle’s Internet. Head back and help do teardown of one of the temporary huts to make a permanent one with the work crew. Eat and have a little activity of hunt the cobra after lunch. The workers find a Cobra in the grass about 100 feet from our eating area and proceed to hunt it down. Bosco eventually finds it and killings it with a six foot tall piece of wood. Pretty exciting! Do some reading before Solomon and I go for a walk into town to get some tangerines and get his pants fixed. In town we pay 600 schillings for 12 tangerines or a little under 25 cents per tangerine. Then we meet a boy named Opio and who takes us back to his hut for more. We meet his dad, Gabriel, who speaks great English and is very nice. We get a taste test of some of the tangerines at no cost and eventually brings us a bucket full of them and says 1,000 schillings. We get 50 tangerines for less than 50 cents that we picked right before our eyes. It does not get any more fresh or good than that. We head back for dinner and then bed.
10-13-10
Breakfast, reading and then help Kinyera Geoffrey with the fencing until lunch. The rest of this week will be interesting because Mike told the three heads, Bosco of the masons, Ochen Geoffrey, of the woodworkers and Kinyera Geoffrey, of agriculture team, that we are going to do some weeding out and to make a list of the workers that are not good and we will let them go. After lunch help some more with the fence until we run out of the nails close to quitting time and head back in. I find out then that I got really burned. It would be great if I was Acholi and did not have to deal with that.
10-14-10
Have a bad night of sleep but have French toast in the morning so it is all good. Do some laundry after breakfast and do it until I rip open a cut on my hand and have to give the rest to one of the cooks, Grace. She gladly accepts because it means extra money in her paycheck. After laundry go to the office and work on loading the pictures of the kids into the child sponsorship excel sheet until lunch. I finish up with that after lunch and am very happy that it only took about an hour to do. I thought it was going to be like a four hour process. Go back to the hut, read and nap. I wake up to Brynn saying that we are going to do Joyce’s interview in like an hour! I shake out the cobwebs and get ready. Joyce is a big one because she is the one of the kids we followed around for a day. The interview goes well from what we can tell because it was all in Acholi and it was clearly hard to tell her story just from her body language. But was really great see her perk up when we asked about her future and what she wants to do. Brynn and I are going to be doing Rose’s interview tomorrow morning so we get everything down to the office to get charging again. Do dinner and then team meeting about planning a trip to Gulu and possibly to Kenya as well. ☺
10-15-10
I know I usually do not do today but did Rose’s interview in the morning and it was very hard. We chose a spot that was not ideal for sound so lots of background noise that we had to redo stuff for but all things said and done it is good. After the interview all of the workers have gone home for the day because there has been some complications with the wire transfer for the money from the states so we just shut down for the day. Adam arrives here and is gonna spend one of his last few days in Uganda with us. We are super excited to have him here and are really gonna miss him when he has to go. Rose leaves after dinner to Gulu and takes a few of the workers with her. Could be a long weekend once again. Hang out with Adam and the girls the rest of the day I guessing but if anything important happens I’ll let ya know.
That’s it. It looking more and more like Tom will be leaving in November and not staying for the whole time so that is a bummer but being a friend’s wedding is pretty important too. Besides that it has been really good here and the time is really starting to go quickly. I can’t wait to see what comes of the next few months and also now that we have all of our main interviews done we are going to be going into editing phase and so pray for diligence in getting that done and for having the patience to get that done. Thanks for reading. I have to figure out a way to give a prize to people who read all of these… you guys are so great.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Lubangakene Collin
It has been another good week. Big news from this week is that I am an official Acholi now. I got an Acholi name. It is Lubangakene Collin Schultz. It is pronounced Lew-bong-a-ken-eh. It means God Alone. It is the namesake of Kinyera Geoffrey’s kid too ☺
10-1-10
Do some Internet and then hang out and read before lunch. After lunch I head out and help Kinyera Geoffrey with the fence that is being put up around the land. After that we get back just in time for the new team from Hawaii to arrive. The Hawaii team includes Susie’s parents; Rich and Margie, Pastor Mike and his son Mark, Les and his wife Lisa, then Helen and Carol. They are great people and we take them to the office to open up the suitcases they left on Wednesday. After the opening all of the suitcases and seeing all the stuff I actually felt a little bit culture shocked from just the shear amount of food and stuff. Just have not seen anything like that for a long time. But we are very happy for the food and the notes from home. Great to see mom’s handwriting ☺ After we open the Christmas presents, I mean suitcases, we have some dinner and I talk to Les, who is a sound guy for a new station in Hawaii. After an hour or so we head to bed.
10-2-10
Wake up and eat with the new team before they do a program with the kids in the new church building. It goes well and they give all the kids journals, which is great. After the program we do lunch. Then we get to bust out a huge 25-person parachute and play with the kids after lunch. It is super fun. The kids just love it and they love having a beach ball in the parachute and just trying to keep it in. It’s the little things in life. The kids are split into two groups and one group is learning a song while the others are playing with the parachute with us. After the groups switch we do some dancing. Dancing is always unbelievable how much fun it is. All of us from us Brynn’s team and Mark from the Hawaii team join in the dancing. Charles driver shows me how to play this hard pumpkin instrument for the girl’s dance. Getting a little music fix. ☺ We shower, eat and head to bed. Brynn talked to our friend Adam and he might join us tomorrow.
10-3-10
Church day! Pastor Mike from the Hawaii team does the sermon. Adam arrives right at the end of church. Really good to see him post his Malaria bout. After church we sit down and discuss what the afternoon will hold with Cindy and the Hawaii team. We have lunch after lunch we do a few crafts with the kids including puzzles, seashells glued on paper crafts and some other things. Hit up some dinner and then Skype session with Scotty ☺ before bed.
10-4-10
We wake up and do some English lessons with the kids. They go well. After the second English lessons we go to their prayer session before lunch. After prayer Pastor David shares that his sister was murdered last night so to pray for her. During lunch we pray for Pastor David and give a “Love Offering” as Pastor Mike calls it. Meet and plan our day tomorrow in the afternoon. The teachers have a teacher’s day tomorrow so the kids don’t have school. They guys; Mark, Adam, Tom and I play soccer with the staff that night before dinner and bed.
10-5-10
Wake up and Adam leaves to head back to Adoc. Very sad to see him go because he is a lot of fun and also balances out some of the estrogen in the group. ☺ After breakfast we do some relays with the kids. First one is with oversized clothes and the next one is a water relay, which turns into a water fight. Momma Cindy gets sneak attacked and gets soaking wet. We setup the Volleyball net before lunch but it takes while so we resume after lunch. Brynn and I do some dishes and then eventually join the rest of the crew who have transitioned the kids into crafts again. Hit up some dinner and do some reading in a book called “Radical” by David Platt. If anyone has not read that book, read it. It is very convicting.
10-6-10
After breakfast the team leaves and it is very sad to see our friends go. Cindy goes with them but has a new plan that she might be back in November so we are hoping for that. Tom and I clean out the room and I am just about to go and help Kinyera Geoffrey with the fence when I see him leave for town to get more nails, so I read instead until lunch. After lunch, I go out with Geoffrey and work on the fence. We get back and it begins to rain pretty hard so we have dinner in the kitchen, which is nice and cozy. That night I get my Acholi name from Geoffrey, Solomon, Kenneth, Agie and Grace. Lubangakene, God Alone. After that I head to bed.
10-7-10
Wake up at 5:30am to a large mouse, that is latter deemed a baby rat, sitting about a foot from my head. Tom and I wake up to try and hunt it down but somehow it is gone. After breakfast I head out and do some fencing with Geoffrey and come back after a half-day. It is Uganda’s independence day on Saturday so the crew gets a long weekend. Have finished “Radical” so I start reading “Half the Sky.” After lunch the work crew leaves and it really quiet around. In 72 hours we have seen 10 white people and around 40 workers leave the site. We play some Nertz and then hang with the kids before dinner. After dinner we help them with their school work and pray before bed. Make plans to sleep at the kids’ house (I will sleep in Mercy with Simon and Alex) next, next Saturday so we are pretty excited about that.
That’s it. Fun to have the crew here and the next few days will be very quiet with all the crews gone but will be good to be rested up again.
10-1-10
Do some Internet and then hang out and read before lunch. After lunch I head out and help Kinyera Geoffrey with the fence that is being put up around the land. After that we get back just in time for the new team from Hawaii to arrive. The Hawaii team includes Susie’s parents; Rich and Margie, Pastor Mike and his son Mark, Les and his wife Lisa, then Helen and Carol. They are great people and we take them to the office to open up the suitcases they left on Wednesday. After the opening all of the suitcases and seeing all the stuff I actually felt a little bit culture shocked from just the shear amount of food and stuff. Just have not seen anything like that for a long time. But we are very happy for the food and the notes from home. Great to see mom’s handwriting ☺ After we open the Christmas presents, I mean suitcases, we have some dinner and I talk to Les, who is a sound guy for a new station in Hawaii. After an hour or so we head to bed.
10-2-10
Wake up and eat with the new team before they do a program with the kids in the new church building. It goes well and they give all the kids journals, which is great. After the program we do lunch. Then we get to bust out a huge 25-person parachute and play with the kids after lunch. It is super fun. The kids just love it and they love having a beach ball in the parachute and just trying to keep it in. It’s the little things in life. The kids are split into two groups and one group is learning a song while the others are playing with the parachute with us. After the groups switch we do some dancing. Dancing is always unbelievable how much fun it is. All of us from us Brynn’s team and Mark from the Hawaii team join in the dancing. Charles driver shows me how to play this hard pumpkin instrument for the girl’s dance. Getting a little music fix. ☺ We shower, eat and head to bed. Brynn talked to our friend Adam and he might join us tomorrow.
10-3-10
Church day! Pastor Mike from the Hawaii team does the sermon. Adam arrives right at the end of church. Really good to see him post his Malaria bout. After church we sit down and discuss what the afternoon will hold with Cindy and the Hawaii team. We have lunch after lunch we do a few crafts with the kids including puzzles, seashells glued on paper crafts and some other things. Hit up some dinner and then Skype session with Scotty ☺ before bed.
10-4-10
We wake up and do some English lessons with the kids. They go well. After the second English lessons we go to their prayer session before lunch. After prayer Pastor David shares that his sister was murdered last night so to pray for her. During lunch we pray for Pastor David and give a “Love Offering” as Pastor Mike calls it. Meet and plan our day tomorrow in the afternoon. The teachers have a teacher’s day tomorrow so the kids don’t have school. They guys; Mark, Adam, Tom and I play soccer with the staff that night before dinner and bed.
10-5-10
Wake up and Adam leaves to head back to Adoc. Very sad to see him go because he is a lot of fun and also balances out some of the estrogen in the group. ☺ After breakfast we do some relays with the kids. First one is with oversized clothes and the next one is a water relay, which turns into a water fight. Momma Cindy gets sneak attacked and gets soaking wet. We setup the Volleyball net before lunch but it takes while so we resume after lunch. Brynn and I do some dishes and then eventually join the rest of the crew who have transitioned the kids into crafts again. Hit up some dinner and do some reading in a book called “Radical” by David Platt. If anyone has not read that book, read it. It is very convicting.
10-6-10
After breakfast the team leaves and it is very sad to see our friends go. Cindy goes with them but has a new plan that she might be back in November so we are hoping for that. Tom and I clean out the room and I am just about to go and help Kinyera Geoffrey with the fence when I see him leave for town to get more nails, so I read instead until lunch. After lunch, I go out with Geoffrey and work on the fence. We get back and it begins to rain pretty hard so we have dinner in the kitchen, which is nice and cozy. That night I get my Acholi name from Geoffrey, Solomon, Kenneth, Agie and Grace. Lubangakene, God Alone. After that I head to bed.
10-7-10
Wake up at 5:30am to a large mouse, that is latter deemed a baby rat, sitting about a foot from my head. Tom and I wake up to try and hunt it down but somehow it is gone. After breakfast I head out and do some fencing with Geoffrey and come back after a half-day. It is Uganda’s independence day on Saturday so the crew gets a long weekend. Have finished “Radical” so I start reading “Half the Sky.” After lunch the work crew leaves and it really quiet around. In 72 hours we have seen 10 white people and around 40 workers leave the site. We play some Nertz and then hang with the kids before dinner. After dinner we help them with their school work and pray before bed. Make plans to sleep at the kids’ house (I will sleep in Mercy with Simon and Alex) next, next Saturday so we are pretty excited about that.
That’s it. Fun to have the crew here and the next few days will be very quiet with all the crews gone but will be good to be rested up again.
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