This week marked the first week of classes and though it has been busy I feel like there is not all that much to talk about. We did a few classes on community and then a couple about personalities. Turns out that my personality type is steady very loyal and easy going, that is all a nice way to say people pleaser,go figure!
Saturday we had our first village day. Yay!!! I learned to wash clothes by hand ( all my Ugandan classmates were shocked), mop a floor ( no it is not the same as at home in Canada) and, one of my favourite parts , make chapati. Sooooo.... good, it similar to Nan Bread but not quite. I will be doing my best to make it in Canada as often as possible. The highlight of my day though was playing with some incredibly cute kids. We tried to play three way patty cake, that was interesting, and had many tickling sessions.
Today was the church district tour. All went to each of the five "celebration points" to see what they were like and next week we will break into our district groups on Sunday to go serve. For me that means going to Watoto North with my group. That promises to be interesting! Though our group does not have many "strong " personality types ( as we would say at home) we do have some very outgoing people. I am sure that amidst the work will be a lot of laughter. Afterwards us internationals went out for Indian food! Woohoo!!!! It was so good. I know it seems so wrong that we are in Uganda and we eat other ethnic foods, but it was amazing!! We were on the rooftop of the mall sitting on a lovely couch with the rain falling down around us eating Nan. I loved it and I think most of us agreed that we would be going back sometime in the next six months.
Don't feel like there's not much to talk about Jess:)...those semi-normal things help us understand more of what you're up to & are still very interesting for us on this end to read:).
ReplyDeleteDoesn't sound at all strange to me that you were eating Indian...because I remember eating lots of Indian when we were there too...not just at restaurants, but in people's homes. I'm not sure why, but that is a very prevelant food type in that part of Africa!
Jess I agree with Heidi, even if it feels like very boring info it's still so interesting to us! Keep posting I love to read even about the little things. And I was wondering - can you post pictures? I'd love to see you cuddling with the kids or dancing and learning to wash clothes!
ReplyDeleteHey thankz guys! I will do my best to keep posting. Sorry Nat I can't put on any pictures of kids, b/c it is against the rules and for some reason my computer has not been letting me put up pictures on the blog but any things that I am allowed to put up will be on facebook :)
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