its so hot....crazily but i am so white still!
SO much to catch up on but no time at all toady!!.... its going to take forever to tell you everything and some things i pray i will never forget!
I wish my camera was working proparly, its so annoying...i can occassionally take a ferw pictures but i hate the fact i cant take pictures when i need to and i occasionally miss amazing things!
I get really upset and annoyed about it!
Just as much as i get upset because i am not in reach of minstrels ...he he! anyways, just under a month now till i come home! Scary ... strange and weird.
So much i am doing here befor i come home! I will be exhausted! Including bungee jumping, white water rafting, visiting the slums again, hosptials and other prphanages, trekking and visiting some villiages outside of our knowledge. We are even trying to get the song recorded at a studio that me and Eric have composed! So much ...more than that. Christmas production is coming up on the 24th, sso many rehearsals and that, and we have the wedding tomo that we are bridesmaids for. It is going to be crazy and tiring.
we are sleeping at the hair salon tonight because it is going to take around 10 hours to do my hair. Not looking forward to thsat new experience, altho it sounds quite funny. The dresses are dyre as well! Trust me!
I am worried actually abuot tomorrow because i have a feeling i am going to look like a walking cristmas cracker! I will get some ppics and you can see for yourself! YUK!!!!
This week....as a team we went to a feild and played some football with some of the lads from church. They made me in charge! Haha .... i felt so good controlling about 20ish guys becuase here women do not have much say in anything other than the cooking! ALtho we as white people have more of a say! Bad ... i nkow, i is just the African way.
We have started to do football a few times a week now and i maje them do lots of work, anyways .... the first day we did it. Oh my days! It was hilarious....it rained like i have never seen rain before...the rain felt like stones! It is the dry season and has not rained in a while, so it RAINED! It was so bad, we were all so scared. We ran and dived for shelter adn the Ugandans said that even they were shocked at the fall! We began getting bored as we all gathered under a small roof edging of a building squashed, we were all smelly, hot and wet anyways.
Me and Ali decided that altho we knew it was stupid we would run out and in the running streams of water (we were on a hill) we would run out and dance in the rain while Hannah filmed! Bad idea ...it hurt but was hilarious!
Then we waited another half hour, it was getting heavier and heavier. I whilspered to the group nad the Ugandans had just told us off for being silly and dancing in the rain becauase we would get ill and it hurts or we would slip.
WE ran for our lives....all the way home! The funniest thing ever. We got to our village and people were laughing and laughing! Then began the lighting ... i was sooo sure i was about to get struck, it was landing all around us, me and Hannah nearly cried, we falling over, absolutely drenched, we were running faster than evr before, the boys kept picking us up and pulling us. We were so scared.....then we got to our porch and once inside we stripped so quickly, shaking away. Freezing! We then all began laughing to much, it was hilarious!
Never again, a once in a life time experience!
The day got better....me and HAnnah we covered in mud, we were so wet and there was no electricity and no water in the house. We decided we should take the chance of showering in the rain.
It was amazing....we snuck round the side of our house in our shorts and underwear. And the rain although was hard was just like a power shower! When you have not had a proper shower in 3 months, it is serious business. OPut came the shampooand conditinoner and then the soap! It was so beautiful! Natural! I felt so cleean after. We went back inside feeling so good!
Then more fun began. The rain stopped and the grasshoppers came out! We went out in the compound, all of us and began shaking the trees and bushes. The grasshoppers all fly out, hundreds, huge and green!
WE took a few empty bottle and began filling them. It is so fun but they bite so hard and its hurts! Trust me! It feels like some one has stabbed you with a needles for about 4 hours! I happened to get bit three times! Trust me!
Anyways, we got about 100 in about an hour and then in the evening just beofre dinner, we took off the arms and legs and other little bits .... and then i fired them in a pan with salt and pepper, oil and a drop of lemon juice and onion! They were beautiful! Yummy!
We actually felt so good becasue we cooked and preparesd our own food from scratch, it was great!
Yesterday we went to Kasoobi tombs! Amazing strory.....ask me about it when i return but its all about the war and the kings and the history of uganda .... amazing! I was fascinated. The king had something like 123 wives in 1864 or something and in the tombs he is burried and aound then tombs (it used to be his privet palace before) are houses were they all would live. The houses are still there and decendents of the wives still live there today. They HAVE to. We met a few. Anyways, it is all very confusing but amazing! They are nutters here and all come from different clans that are named after animals.
If you are from the cow clan, you are not allowed to eat beef etc. It is crazy!
ANywyas .... we took the orphans out this week and managed to loose half of them and found them eventually about a mile away climbibng trees! My heart nearly stopped! They are so lovely though. they call me Mumma Kelly. Amongst 4 other African names! I love them all!
I am now singing a song solo at the Christmas production in Lugan .... plase pray for me. I am also solo - ing Silent night, a song i don't know very well and i am leading other songs and playing my flute. It is all so much! And it is all scary! We are dancing to which involves shaking every part of your body, which i hate! They do not understand that me and Hannah feel slighlty unconfortable shaking every bit of fat on our bodies about!
ME and JAmes were chased by acow badly the other day, i mean it ran, we ran, i cried inside but the cow laughed outside!
\The kids from the streets are with us most of the time and following us everywhere, i have got used to thier beggin now and i now beg them back in Luganda, which they find hilarious!
I hope to chat very soon about other things.
I had a dreem about Fiona, Sarah, Kate, Lucy, Mum and Gill gardiner a few nights ago. We were on the news and all the African were with me watching it. Baring in mind we have no TV's here and especially no BBC, it felt very realistic! Whatever it was about Aveling woke me upbecuase i was laughing so loud! Love you all!
Please pray for those things iemailed about this week, i really appreciate it and also pray for the wedding tomo adn that we will have hair still after the Africans have done their things eith it. Please pray that it will not hurt so much and that i will still have feeling in my head!!!
