Mzungu, How Are You???

So we went to Lugazi town yesterday which is where our house is. It's really a village, but has about 5000 people in it. Our house is very nice for village standards. We have running water and a western toilet. But still shower with buckets. But we're really not complaining because it is so hot and we are so nasty by the end of the day that a bucket of cold water is welcomed.

Last night we had dinner: greens, beans, and flatbread. and boiled water with ginger. Really good. Then we watched the local Ugandan cable soap operas....they're awesome. We played the Martin Luther King "I have a Dream Speech" and it was the first time my parter, Sun Young (now: Musuna- her lugandan name meaning "sun") had ever heard it and most of the family. It was powerful. They gave me the name Kisa, pronounced chee-sah, which means "grace" or "charity." How cool is that. Charity...hmmm. =)

Went to bed pretty early last night and woke up this morning to the sound of frogs having a croaking competition, a dog, roosters, and music from the sky (or some other undetermined source...we prefer to say from the sky). All of this at sunrise. It was beautiful. Musuna and I went for a run through the village and the children followed us saying "Mzungu how are you?" which is the only thing they know in English. It's precious.

Then we got dressed and went into Kampala for church. Wow...it was amazing. The music was fantastic. And you know I love music. And let me say that if one chooses to not believe in God...it would not last long in an African church. When you listen to 5000 people utter their prayers and praises aloud at the same time and the room is filled with nothing but the most honest desires of the heart to commune with God, the filler of their heart.....you cannot deny God. It is impossible. I promise.

We're headed back into Lugazi now to prepare somethings. Tomorrow we go back to Kampala to buy a monitor for our computer at home and then I will have internet access at our house hopefully. We are also buying some more medical supplies because I will be in charge of administering medical services at the school. Little scary that it's just me, but it's mainly assessing the condition, cleaning wounds, plasters, and applying certain medicines (OTC). I think I can do it. Oh, and we're buying CDs to burn some of my music and the MLK speeches for my host family. P.s. They LOVE NELO!!!!!!!!! Like, seriously. A LOT! Lisa, we should book shows here. And they like their pictures too. haha.

We are reading Shane Claiborne's book, The Irresisstable Revolution. Reading chapters aloud each night starting tonight because I think that Valence (the director of our village program YOFAFO- youth focus africa foundation) is Shane's soulmate.

God is moving...

time is running out on the internet.
love you all!
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