Two weeks, not too bad especially as I’ve written two more
chapters of my fanfic, that’s got to be worth something right... Anywho...
So the week starting the 7th was a slow one in
which not much happened. We are really enjoying school now, and I am continuing
with one on one sessions with the children. It is really nice to see their
progress and this week one of the kids (who is really bright) managed to read
one of my books, all the way through. It was awesome to see the joy in his face
when he completed it. On the Thursday I went to the hospital, just to make sure
everything was ok, which it was. After that we took a little, detour. By this I
mean we got on a wrong taxi and ended up doing a round trip to where we
started. Great to see more of Kampala though.
On Friday we tried, and I think managed, to tackle the
crucifixion. Explaining something so big to such little children is a strange
thing, but I pray we succeeded.
Saturday we visited a friend’s house, Lawrence’s, for a
party. It was really nice just hanging out with friends, dancing and eating a
ridiculous amount of food (or more like trying too.) Palm Sunday was almost
like a calm before the storm, mainly because although Sunday was chilled, the
following week was not.
The whole of Monday we spent dancing. We had been asked to
choreograph a dance for the Easter service that was being held that Friday, and
so most of Monday was spent making up a dance and then teaching it in the
evening.
Tuesday was the last day of school before RMC broke off for
Easter and so we just went over the phonics we had taught them again. It was
great seeing that the had learned so much in the short time we had been there.
The evening was once again filled with teaching the LT guys the new routine.
We had been looking forward to Wednesday all week because it
was the day that the children from RMC where coming to the house to receive
aid. They were packed into two taxis on the way here and where so excited! We
played a few games with them as we were still sorting things out but after that
we managed to give them all shoes, hats, soap and school supplies including
notebooks pens and colouring sheets. We also managed to find a lot of teaching
supplies that we were able to give to the teachers. We loaded them all back
onto the taxi and sent them home with large grins on their faces, it was
adorably cute. We headed off to youth fellowship after that because there was a
rehearsal after wards. It was nice to hear a talk that wasn’t directed at
adults for a change.
Building! On Thursday morning we where given the task to
carry a load f sand and stone from one place to another. It was actually quite
nice doing some physical work for a change. I got covered in mud, but that was
because the end on the building seemed to become a mud fight and I ended up in
a hole half filled with wet mud. Great fun, and I’m not being sarcastic. After
a very quick turnaround we headed to our last rehearsal before the performance.
Friday’s kids club topic was the resurrection and it was an
easier story to tell for some reason. It was really nice to hear that the kids
had heard it before and that they understood just what Jesus did for them.
Straight afterwards we went to church where me, Anna and Grace performed the
dance that we had been worrying about since the start of the week, it was kind
of our baby by this point – figuratively speaking. It went well, a few mishaps
ere and there but nothing that wasn’t expected from a dance choreographed and
learned in 4 days. We felt a lot of achievement at the end of it.
These last few days, because it has been Easter have been
very slow and it’s really nice because three of us especially where very tiered
after this week.
So that’s what’s been happening... Please continue to pray
for health out here.
Oh and Happy Easter!
