Week 5!!!

So what's happened this week?

We aswtarted a new topi about the nature and haratr of God, the speaker was really good the lectures remeinded me of being in RS lessons so i'd heard some of the stuff before and I did find myself having to stop myslef asking loads of debate questions about eh issues he bought up!

Wednesday I had my first mini-preach which actually went okay, lots better than I thought it would I didn't have half my points until work duty on Monday you an learn lots when other people are bugging you so I guess that means that next time someone bothers I shouldn't complain right? Ummm I'll think about that one!

Wednesday was also my first cooking session- i've done quite well to not have to do it until this week! We had lots of fun in the 'kitchen'- clay furnaces! We tried to avoid having to cook greens but got told we had to go and pick them, we then nearly burnt them- I love the African way for dealing with something that’s burning- pour cold water over it! With all this drama we spent half the time laughing which I am very thankful for as I know other people have had not so good kitchen experiences!

Thursday evening was very exciting because post arrived- we don't know what had happened to it because the post stamps for when some of it arrived in Jinja is over 2 weeks ago- we can only assume that it's been in YWAM's central office up until now! Anyway I an go and collect my package from town today, and seeing as there is no internet I might add today’s adventures to this post before it goes up anyway!

Friday we had a crazy work duty which involved taking EVERYTHING except the bunks but including the mattresses out of the room! We then had to clean it all and scrub the walls, it was so much effort to take it all outside and made me realise how much stuff I must have already gained from being here because my suitcase couldn’t hold it all! After a few arguments mainly with the staff about where our bags were allowed to go when everything came back in, because apparently before our room was disgusting, we have finally got everything sorted and our room does look nicer- but who knows how long that will last! We got new curtains as well so the windows are now properly covered :D I actually got to sleep past sunrise this morning!

In myself this week hasn't been so good, with all the chaos and madness i've struggled to keep on top of everything, like my Bible reading and journal, which unfortunately has meant a couple of times this week I have just wanted to go home nothing sounded better than my own room and some pizza! But I made it through the week PTL and I know i'll make it through the next 44, God wouldn't have called me here otherwise and when I get weak he will carry me through the hard days. I know that is what I have to trust in- some day’s that's hard but I know that the hard times will make me stronger and that's what will 'change' me- things grown in the valleys and the rain right?

Anyway I must go try and do some reading and journalling before going into town...

so it was a good day :D I got waffles and bacon and syrup for breakfast at ozzies and I pikes up my packages in town even though I only new that one of the had arrived the second was there too :D

me and jenny then spent a couple of hours dancing round the dinning room which was amazing but also made me realise how unfit i've got!

Sunday (which is now today) we went to a church as DTS which was good, very African and 3 and a half hours long! But the DTS guys that did stuff in it did really well and I spent half the service holding this beautiful baby girl!

Thats all for now!

Month uno!

So my mum told me that I haven't blogged in a while and I guess she's right so....

I've officially been in Uganda a month which is totally crazy- it doesn't feel like it's been that long at all and although I don't want to wish my time away it's nice that time is going by without too much effort!

The last week has been a bit of a roller-coaster, Sunday I went to Calvary chapel church which was good a bit of a mix between engligh/african church so that was interesting. We then went to flavours for lunch and I got these amazing kebab things and hot chocolate brownie with vanilla ice cream! YUM! The internet wires got stolen on Monday so we were cut of from the outside world again! We had work duties on Monday which involved cleaning the whole of the massive dinning room- that wasn't so fun! We did however got porridge afterwards, african porridge is very runny and you drink it, it's surprisingly nice especially with nutella!

On wednesday I did my first African grass cutting- know and slashing- you get a mettal pole with a sharp and an hack at the grass- it's hard work and blisters are inevitable! Gardening also happened on Friday when we spent an hour pulling up weeds, it had just been raining so we got extremely muddy! Thursday I got ill which was nasty I had a stomach ache and headache for a couple of days.

On the plus side, the talks were good (once they started, our speaker didn't turn up for the wek so we had a DVD instead!) I learnt a lot about deliverance and demons which was interesting!

Saturday was the best day I’ve had here so far, Iran! (about 1mile) Then had a lazy couple of hours before me Becca and Katie went into Jinja we went to the source for lunch and I got a cheese burger and an iced mocha! Which was amazing and cost the equivalent of £1.10 :D

we then went to Shalom orphanage in Bugembe (one of the local villages) and spent just over an hour there, they have about 20 kids there from 2-16 and we played games with them and they showed us their dances which they perform in churches and places which were really amazing. We joined in for a bit but the kids kept laughing at us so I guess that means we weren't very good!

Sunday I spent 2 hours washing and went into Kakira for some luch, we bought Rolex's which are chibatti and egg- LUSH :) I also got hit my a boda-boda, I’m not joking it just drove straight into me while I was talking to someone. I'm not hurt PLT however it did continue to try and drive through me once it realised it had hit me! That wasn't so fun!

I think that's all for now! I'll be back soon!

Week 3!

This week has been pretty buys, emotionally and physically exhausting as well, or teachings have been pretty hard core! We've been looking at rejection/ acceptance and the father heart of God

Monday we started small groups which is a group of 5 of us- we meet 3 times a week to chat about how we're getting on, how we are finding the speaker and things like that. We also had work duties, this week I was cleaning the kitchen and had to spend 2 hours cleaning cobwebs off the ceiling- there were some HUGE spiders!!!

Then Tuesday was food heaven! We got pasta and beef at lunchtime and then went to a hog roast at Tim and Jackies in the afternoon! It was amazing :) we also had a social event in the evening where we played some games I beat Christian in seeing who could chew along a piece of string to the sweet first! We also got popcorn and did some crazy African dancing!

Wednesday morning we got banana pancakes which made a very nice change from bread rolls! We also had a massive downpour over lunchtime I don't think I have ever seen it rain so hard and the rain drops were MAHUSIVE!

What else? Friday we went out with the evangelism team to do some door to door teaching- I was amazed about how welcoming people were to here even f they didn't want to make a commitment right then we defiantly got the chance to sow some seeds- well at last I think we did everyone was speaking in Lugnada so I had no idea what was going on half the time!

In other news our bathroom light now works and we nearly killed Joel when failing to kill the rats- well actually it wasn't poison that made him ill but for a while we thought it was!

we had a thunderstorm last night, it lasted for hours and the claps of thunder lasted like 20 seconds1

I feel like i've forgotten to say something important but i cant think what!

Finally internet is back!

 

Fellowship

so I have to tell you about Thursday night fellowship at Tim and Jackie's (the base leaders). It's a gathering of whoever wants to go on the base, there were about 15 people there, Tim spent some time sharing about holiness and how we should strive to live a holy life, it was a really powerful message and really encouraged us to pray for hatred of sin. We then played some AWSOME games!!! I will have to show you them once i'm home, but I was so much fun. I felt so at home and relaxed there, maybe for the first time I didn't leave something feeling exhausted or as if it had been effort which was such a blessing. So right now i'm just thankful so that time that allowed me to be refreshed and feel at home. The bad news was that the internet was taken down by a storm and repair is taking a while!

So we went into Jinja on saturday for some shopping and then we went to the kindfisher hotel on the edge of lake victoria which has an awsome swimming pool :) I got a cheeseburger and chips which was to die for!!!!!! it was good just to chill out away from the chaos of the base or town. There was an orphanage group in the pool when we were there and we played games with them and has them singing high school musical which was really funny :)

also been to out first african church service we went with our base leaders- curch starts at 9 so we went at 10:30 and it still went on till 1!!! it was exciting but the preach just went on and on and on and on....... it also rained during the talk so we had to stop and worship for a bit because you couldn't hear a thing!!

Dinner time here is exciting when we get chibati :) normally we get some combination of Irish potatoes, beans, rice, cabbage, spinnage and posho (which is don't really eat) so the food is mostly edible but not varied. Peanut butter has become my best friend especially with banana sandwiches for breakfast!!! I am however missing chocolate but rice and nutella for dinner one night was my best food invention so far! Pineapple here is actually amazing and seeing as I don't like it at home thats saying something, I’ve also braved eating watermelon and avocado so far which weren't as bad as back in England!

In other news, we have rats in our room, it fell through the hole in our celling one night and although the boys have gone up through the hole and found the nests they haven't got round to killing it yet!

I also braved going for a run! A couple of laps round the football pitch, good exercise but I missed the smooth paths of home rather than playing dodge the holes and jump some brambles, it was more like a steeplechase!

Work duties have started and so far I have had to clean the floor or our classroom by pouring buckets of water over the floor and then sweeping it out the door, I had my first experience of African farming, dropping seeds into holes and covering them with soil using my foot, after a couple of hours my feet we're a couple of Kg heavier and everyone was covered in mud!!!! I had wash up today which luckily wasn't to bad although didn't do my back any good which is currently killing me (prayer hint)

This week our speaker has been talking about sin, repentance and forgiveness, it's been really interesting to here what he has to say.

I have so much else to say but I just cant think right now! Anyways sorry about the really long post!