Photos

Here's links to pictures from my trip! There's about 120 of them, so grab a cup of coffee and settle in for a look at some of the cutest kids you'll ever see.

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What a week!!
I was proposed to by Michael, a 5 year old (really cute, I still have the bamboo ring), I had a bat in my bedroom (yes...a bat), I found out a really fun way to get a taxi driver back for overcharging b/c I'm white, and we had 16 smelly ballers out at Shiloh this weekend!

We kept Enoch's nephew and niece for a few days (Abdul and Rahia---in the picture on the left). They were so much fun! The circumstances around why we ended up keeping them aren't fun (mother just up and left), but I'm still glad they got to spend a few days with us. Between me and Alisha, I'm pretty sure they got more hugs and kisses in 3 days than they ever have!

This weekend was the match between the students and the Secondary School of the Deaf in Wakiso and our CHM boys. It was quite the exhausting experience! Feeding and housing 16 boys is a challenge! We went to their church service before the game and it was amazing to watch them worship through signing. The game was so much fun! Our boys lost (their first loss so far) but it was great. They played hard and I think they learned a lot by playing against that team. I think the boys liked getting away for a weekend too. That's something that doesn't happen often here. We had a bonfire Saturday night and though most of the talking was in Luganda, you could tell they were having fun. I got play nurse too! George William (one of the sweetest guys on the team) had an abscess on his face that we ended up having to drain. I know Mama, not everyone's a nursing major, so I won't go into too much detail, but it was amazing!

The week with the school program was different. We had some pretty heavy rains that kept some schools away and exams are this week so they won't be coming to the center. We've got Bible study tomorrow night with the older girls and then I'm doing my last first aid class Wednesday night (we decided that we'd stop trying Saturdays b/c not everyone could make it). I really hope those two nights we have left with the older girls go well. Definitely keep those nights in your prayers!

It's hard to believe there's only one week left! And time is completely relative, b/c I feel, partly, like I just got here, but then also like I've been here so much longer than a month. Shelly, Alisha and I have called it a time warp. We've got one more Saturday with our Bunga kids. Those are the one's I'll miss the most! Alisha and I don't pledge an allegience to any department on Saturdays, but instead consider ourselves to be the official huggers! It's a way better job!

I know this is a short update, but time is limited. If I don't get a chance to post another before I get back to the States, I'll post one from my apartment in good old Carrollton, GA! More to come...

**By the way, if you ever get stuck in the back seat of a taxi here (public taxi's are big vans with sliding doors) and the conductor is trying to overcharge you (there are always two prices in Uganda--the one for the locals and the one for white people) then a fun way to get him back is to stick your hand out the window everytime he opens the door and hold it so it won't close. Then, after he's pulled and pulled a few times, just let go! It'll keep him puzzled for miles and the people next to you laughing!