A Weekend in Africa

    Saturday was a super fun day! I went to Adrift and picked up our white water rafting video and picture CD...here's a few awesome photos to look at! We white water rafted the Nile River Saturday the 19th. 8 of the team members went along:
Boat Order: In the boat on the left side front to back: Stuart, me, Rachel, Peggy
In boat on the right side front to back: Gary, Abigail, Darlene and Audra
What a great experience...gorgeous landscape, fun rapids and even some monkeys!

Just a few of the very fun photos!! On Saturday, Josephine wanted me to have some fun so we went to the Uganda museum first. It was interesting to get to see some of the history of Uganda. Next, we rode a taxi to Entebee and went to the zoo. I was able to pet a rhinoceros haha...I was interested to see their zoo since I feel like so many animals wander the streets...monkeys, goats..you know! Haha...Here is a picture of Josephine and me at the zoo!

Here is also my promised picture of me on a boda boda....I LOVE them!

They are so easy to zip in and out of traffic in...I love it! (maybe slightly dangerous...haha)
After the zoo, Jospehine took me to the beach since my family was in Destin and I missed out. The "beach' is the coast line of Lake Victoria...it has sand and waves...so it works :) Here are some pics!

We had a wonderful Saturday...but an even better Sunday! Josephine invited me to attend church with her and then eat lunch with her family! Worship in Uganda is very different. The people are just so passionate...there is a lot of singing, dancing, and more...most of the singing was in Luganda..but they do sing one song I know..."Hallelu, hallelu, hallelu, hallelujah...Praise ye the Lord!" The whole congregation actually divides into men and women and sit and stand! I participated!! As far as the sermon, they had two preachers...one speaking Luganda and one English...I couldn't understand either..they might as well have been speaking both in a foreign language, but it was still lovely!

Our Sunday meal was also wonderful. Here are some pictures of her lovely family and me :)

What a wonderful family and new friends :) They were such gracious hosts! And lunch was yummy too!!

Today was Monday, and we headed back out to Blessed Hope. Remember the taxis I talked about? Legally are supposed to hold 14...at one point on the way we had 26 people in it...yes you heard me right...26. 21 adults and 5 children...if I could've taken a discrete photo I would have but it just wasn't a possibility...needless to say I was very squished. I taught Grade 5 math this morning. We working on finding the area of rectangles and triangles. This afternoon I was working on grammar with Grade 7. I got to teach them something they didn't know today! Analogies! It was so fun...they really enjoyed it :) I am so thankful to have had those children in my life...they have forever changed my outlook on life and I hope to go home with just a little bit of their joy and love. Here's some action shots of today's lessons.

We had a good time...after class today, I got to see a very hilarious site. I was informed by Josephine that sometimes they cannot afford to have moving trucks to move people. They actually use boda bodas...I could not help to take a picture of this and laugh hysterically. Can you imagine the talent this takes?

Thanks to everyone for reading and all the prayers so far! I can't believe I leave here one week from today. Time has flown for sure. Tomorrow I return for my last day at Blessed Hope. I know my heart is going to break leaving those sweet faces behind!