Week 7 19/2/13 - 25/2/13
Tuesday -19/2/13
Today I still have my cold and it is getting worse. This
morning we had our first session and it was on boldness; some of the concepts
that the woman talked about were interesting but I was kind lost for a good
part of it. Then we had ministry prep and I was our team leader today. Today we
had to plan for a school in which we would be teaching smaller children. We
were given the message plan so all we had to do was plan some games, decide who
would do what and write up some memory versus. There were a few people who as
usual liked to make things difficult but my strong side came out I think I may
have shocked them with my sternness. I did discover about myself however that
my leadership skills aren’t in making everyone feel good and the whole team
spirit, my skills are in getting the job
done and making good decisions to fulfill the purpose. I am not sure if that is
a great thing but I feel like crap this week so I don’t really care and I’m not
even sure if I should. Our larger East team then split into two smaller teams
and then my team worked really well getting all the planning done. Like most
things there are always those people who want to make things difficult and
thankfully I didn’t have any. I’m sorry if the last few weeks and this week’s
blogs are blunt but I am feeling exhausted and overwhelmed by everything, so I apologize. Jonal wrote up a memory verse boarder and then Gloria wrote the
verse and screwed the thing up so I wrote one out and Sherly (one of our
leaders) came over and said that it was disgustingly beautiful, so I’m not sure
how to take that, but I gather it was a positive comment. We then had lunch and
would head straight to the buses after woods.
I was feeling worse buy this stage of the day but kept
trudging on and reminding myself I had a week off in only a few days, to
recover from my flew, catch up on sleep and digest the six weeks of learning.
The driving took quite some time and I realized that buy the time we would
actually arrive at the school we might have fifteen minutes according to our
time frame. Anyway we had two leaders from south church come and we were told
that the plans had been changed and we would be going to another school. We
arrived after weaving through the narrow and bumpy roads at a small, neat and
crowded school. My team went to teach the grade ones and twos and we had been
warned that the kids when excited are absolutely mental. We started off with a
hymn, which one of the students lead and I wish I could have recorded it all
and taken a bazillion pictures. Then Winnie taught the memory verse which she
was excellent at and we had been given a box of biscuits to give to children
who answered our questions as apparently a prize motivates the children. Then it was my turn to teach them the basics
of how God loves them. I had higher expectations of the children’s
understanding levels so I had to dumb it down on the spot so they could
understand it. Thankfully I had written down on a piece of card for show the
three points I had teach them; 1) God is good, 2) God loves you & 3)God
wants to be your best friend. I think my accent made it that little bit harder
for them to understand but they were pretty responsive and I really enjoyed it.
I had some lollies to bribe the children’s attention and they were all bursting
to give answers which were fantastic. It was funny however how if Winnie said
to them sit down they all dropped, but I mustn’t have been as persuasive. I
finished off my piece which was about ten minutes and I think I did a pretty
good job for my first time. Then it was Gloria’s turn to play a game and this
part was pretty crazy and fun.The games we played were...
1) mingle mingle- which is basically our version of that
game were you have to dance around and then someone calls out a number and you
have to quickly get into a group with that number of people. Gloria chanted out
mingle mingle and then the kids would echo her mingle mingle only heaps louder.
That was good for getting their attention because they would all just start
again when they heard that. However being white and all when she called out a
number a good majority of the kids would just flock to me squizzing the living
day lights out and also to Winnie, in which they nearly knocked us over when we
were engulfed. That was jut brilliant as I felt like I was actually doing
something for ounce.
2) Cat &Rat-The second game was simply cat and mouse but
with a million kids and more aggressive. Unlike western style where contact is
discouraged and the kids would lift their arms up and down to let the two in
and out; Ugandan style involves trapping the cat inside or out from the mouse
with a hard barrier of children’s arms and the cat has to burst through barricade of body’s to get the mouse. No
health and safety practices in the world of play here and that’s how it should
be, it’s more fun with contact.
Then it was time for us to go and I released that this was
probably the funnest ministry experience I had had. It felt awesome to be
challenging myself in front of the kids and actually interacting with them. We
got back to Central and I thought that was the end of the story for today but
then Calvin came in with an announcement. The living hope ladies have been
moving shop and apparently need help so instead of a week off we will be
helping them in some way. Wasn’t my happiest moment and I was very disappointed
but then Shelry said that “this will test your availability to serve and
integrity” and by God did that punch me in the face because a women before I
would have been the first to be in uproar. And also after seeing ‘it’s not
about me’ written on Hannah’s hand I changed my mind set and even though I was desperately
hanging out for that wondrous week off I will serve with a willing heart and
try to cast out my selfishness as I best I can and mostly through God because
there is no way I can be cheerful about this on my own; I’m too aggressive as a
person. So I will just to somehow manage and look forward to when this whole
thing ends. I’m not sure if it’s being sick, overwhelmed, tired and emotionally
mute that this whole experience feels like a nightmare on one hand and then
heap of fun on the other. Not sure what to think or feel but I guess I am
growing in some way. In a way it’s all too much and was nothing like I had
expected. The last few days I have been on the negative rating but who knows
what the future brings. Defiantly not a serving person, at least I know that
much. I almost feel like I am in dispute with God and I don’t know why like my
soul is just unsettled and maybe that is just it; there is a giant battle going
on inside me that I ‘m not even aware of. So today has been like a cake that
has icing on it, for me good and bad. Another day down and who knows how many
to go. As much peace as I can give out from Africa.
Wednesday -20/2/13
Today I have the cold really bad, but I think this has been
the best day in I don’t know how many. We started off with waking up and then
going to Central and I have mixed up my breakfast with having leftovers. Anyway
at central we had our morning devotion which was about the seven all rounded
Christian points. It was interesting and was nice as some light spiritual food.
Then we had our first devotion which was about worship and I can remember
thinking wow because I had just been talking to God and saying I need to
understand better about worship. It was a really good sermon and because I was
looking for answers in this area I was really engaged. It was done by the
Watoto pastor of creative arts and I really liked what he had to say. I also
can remember having preconceived judgments about him but this one thing that I
believe God is teaching me at the moment kept coming into my head “wow. Every
Christian has something incredible to offer and an amazing talent regardless if
they think so or if I think so because God is with them and uses them’. Well at
least something like that. Then we had a another man come in who is an
incredible musician and singer and is a really tall solid guy, which is cool;
because your preconceived idea of him isn’t a muso at all. Then we just sung
that whole session until Jackie whom I was sitting next to pointed out that
there was a rat sitting just behind a pot. Now don’t think that Africa is dirty
like that or that the room we were in was bodgie because that rat was the most
out of place thing. You wouldn’t have even thought there might be something
like that in there because the room is so neat and tidy and well designed. So
basically I was captivated by that rat until Josh walked up behind it (he
didn’t know it was there) and motivated it to make the extra 30cm to the door
where it slipped under and vanished. It was so cool and I even took a picture
to prove to people that I had seen it because it was a bit awkward screaming
out rat at the time. Then we had lunch which was the basics as usual. However I
finished my lunch early so Natalie and I went to a craft markets just down the
road from the church for a look. I had noticed them last week and have been
busting to go so I was overjoyed. Hannah was given a Ugandan bracelet from one
of the guys in our group and so even though she doesn’t know it I am competing
with her to have the best bracelets and wrist bands. So I was looking out for wrist bands to start my collection. There were so many things and colors and I
was happy and over whelmed. All the shop owners are all trying to get you into
their shops and trying to sell you stuff, but I was on a mission in the small
time we had on our lunch break. I found an awesome woolly armband that has the
Ugandan colors and then a leather band which had Africa branded on it. Then we
had a look around and high tailed it back to church. For the afternoon session
we had ministry prep for tomorrow. My team is going to visit living hope
clients which should be fun and challenging. Then we were tested with our team
work skills. Each of the five districts had to work together to create a
display of the groups talent to present to everyone and we only had 10 minutes
to plan. I stood back to see what we everyone else might come up with but there
was nothing so using my big imagination I quickly schemed a plan and presented
it to my group who hungrily ate it up. What we would do was do a play
Australian Aboriginal style in the form if a dream time story. Basically we were
basing it about marriage and the plot is basically there was an island of woman
and one of men who were missing something so the women went searching in canoes
and found the male island. The men happily greeted them and they danced then
they all got married and that is how the rainbow serpent made wife and husband
in marriage. I was simple but because all the Ugandans love a good romance tale
I knew it would be a hit; and it was. The play was for about two minutes, I
narrated and the rest of them (thankfully there was an even number of guys and
girls without me) acted out the basic play following y cues. Other groups did a
quick dance, another did a very interesting abstract play on abuse, another did
a cool beat box song (unfortunately short) and the other I am not even sure.
Then we were asked what we thought and a big debate broke out between a guy on
my team and the rest of the groups because he offended them by saying that
groups should have a theme. Wish he could learn to shut his mouth but besides
that I love my group and we did a really good job. Basically our motivation was
that there might be chocolates involved so that defiantly helped my brain to
work; but unfortunately there weren’t, but we would have won I think according
to the criteria. Then we had a quick wrap up of the day and departed. Then
because Ester was going to be a bit late we went back to the markets with
everyone else. As the leather band I had bought was a bit tight I gave it to
Callie who brought it off me and I brought another one that was bigger, so
everyone was happy. Also Moses (one of my Ugandan friends who is just awesome)
was making a bracelet band thing out of shoe laces so I convinced him to give
it to me and I would in turn give him one of my small Koloa’s so I now have it
and the two I brought and look pretty
darn awesome. After that we came home. Then we decided that ice-cream might be
a fun idea, however a storm was rolling in but we went anyway. As we started to
walk it started to rain and I had brought my rain jacket which was an awesome
idea, because by the time we got to the Narkomart store it was simply pelting
down. We got our goods and then departed and the Narkomart guy walked us all
the way to the end of the car park with a big umbrella and they couldn’t
believe we were walking back in the rain.
It was just the coolest feeling walking in the Ugandan rain and we had a
few cars stop and ask us if we needed a ride and when we said no they all had
these shocked faces like ‘crazy muzungus’. We got home soaking wet and tried to
ring the door bell but the power was off so we had to knock using a small metal
flap, which worked in getting their attention. Then we all sat around in the
lounge room and told ghost stories, supernatural encounters and other
supernatural stories which were just scary and incredible how powerful the name
of Jesus is. I hope o have a supernatural encounter here and even meet a
possessed person to just have that experience of Jesus’ power casting out a
demon. I want to witness that so that the truth in the power of his name will
be burned into my heart and head so that I will never doubt it. Then we had
dinner, started cell in the dark and as we finished worship the lights came
back on so it felt like a God moment and then we had cell on the topic of
prayer. Got some juicy stuff out of that to implement in my own prayer life and
that finishes off the day. Today even though I feel like death with my cold has
been really good and spiritually refreshing and I don’t know why or what thing
has happened to inspire this, but I am defiantly not going to complain. I hope
that the best days are ahead and that this time has just been a time of
settling in my environment and just in me and ounce the water settles then I
can have some life changing fun. In cell we were talking about how we want God
to break us and refine us and then I had a vision of this analogy; It was that
instead of always needing to be broken we are like a wall and a box of ugly
plates etc. Then what God does is smashes the plates and puts them on the wall
to create a beautiful mosaic. That he fixes us one plate at a time, he fixes
one thing at a time and reuses what we are already in a better way. I am so
proud of my analogy Gods analogy through me) and just had to share it. Because
in reality the whole process of smashing one bad thing at a time in the big
picture is totally smashing us and when the last plate is smashed you die.
So today has been a really good day and I can’t wait for
tomorrows adventure. I hope I get over this cold and ask that you pray for me
to be...
1) Filled with the holy spirit, so that I can be high on
God.
2) Have a good sleeping pattern as I am having trouble
falling asleep early.
That is today and I hope you enjoy it just as much as I did.
I think the biggest thing is just be encouraged that God’s got the love to see
you through (actually a song by Florence and the Machine) the darkest of
seasons, days and feelings. Peace out from Africa with a big sneeze and smile.
Thursday -21/2/13
Today has been a really good day, with lots of adventure.
Today started off with waking up, having breakfast and hoping on our bus to
central. Then class started and we had the morning devotion about something; I
think it was some general topic that was very general and I mustn’t have tasted
anything memorable thus my amnesia to what it was about. Then we split into our
district teams for our ministry; today my team was visiting two living hope
clients. We boarded a bus taxi (the first time for me) so that in itself made
my day pretty darn awesome and we were off. We had a previous 360 student to
help us navigate for the first time but the next time it will be up to our team
to find the way. So we were in the taxi for a while and then we stopped and
hoped out and started walking down a road, the taxi had obviously left and then
I found out some interesting facts about our journey so far. The taxi’s in
Uganda are like white vans decked out with about 12 seats (including the
driver) in which the driver and a conductor drive around in a direction, the
conductor hanging out the window looking for people waiting on the side of the
road in which they will quickly pull over (sometimes stopping traffic) and cram
the passenger into the bus next to complete strangers and sometimes over
loading the bus illegally. An average trip cost from about 500 ugsh onwards so
a taxi ride in one of these is about $00.50 (pretty good). The transportation
of Uganda starts at the bottom with walking, then passenger bikes, boda boda’s,
the white taxi’s, special taxi’s and then private cars; that is the basic means
of transportation and there are way more white taxi’s and boda boda’s than
anything else on the already crowded roads. So back to my story, the taxi
driver had lied that he knew were we had to go stopped at a random place to get
us out of the taxi, told us we were here and then taken off. After walking
around a bit and making a few phone calls along with buying airtime to make
those calls (airtime is phone credit in Uganda) we found out the place we had
to go wasn’t that far from central and we were a lot further out than we needed
to be. So we walked and boarded another Taxi and after that it is a lot of
Lugandan being said, walking and boarding and getting out of Taxi’s. And while all this is happening me and Winnie
are copying the songs from the movie ‘Tangled’ and as a side note Winnie has
the most incredible singing voice. Then we hiked up a hill and killing two
birds with one stone (both our clients in one visit) we met both the clients in
which we briefly introduced each other and then followed them to the woman’s
shop about 500km to 1km down a road sided with small stalls and shops; in my
mind I call them market stretches, because basically that’s what they are. We
arrived and I they gathered chairs for us and we sat down. Even though the
conversation was all in English I still couldn’t understand what was being said
so I just smiled and waved and asked what was going throughout the
conversation. The main thing I did discover about the women was that she made
these knitted couch covers and basically I have helped her out and myself by
getting her to make me a set of these things in a flower design were the whole
blanket thing is these knitted flowers all stitched together. The one she had
was green so I asked her if she could make a rainbow one and she said yes. It
is so cool and because it comes in a set of six small ones and a big one I can
break them up as presents. Think my mum, Raelene, Leanne and Mamma will like
them. Cool thing is it will only cost me 50’000ugsh which is equivalent to
maybe $20. After that we sang a song, prayed and then followed the man to his
home. Both clients had three children with their spouse having left them. The
woman is HIV positive and the man having no work has been kicked out of the
place he was renting so is now living with his three children in an unfinished
house. That was the jist of their stories and then after seeing his previous
home and the one he was now in we followed him to a road that we could then
catch a taxi back to central. That taxi rode went well and I had a lady I
didn’t even know say I was the most beautiful person she had ever seen....
joking but she said she loved my collection arm bands so if it isn’t something
a random Ugandan women (with awesome dreads) saying she liked my collection of
Ugandan arm bands I don’t know what is. Then we hoped off and went to a bakery
were I brought a meat pie and two chicken somosis, they were really nice and
weren’t like an Aussie meat pic but more like a mince apple turnover thingo and
then the somosis were really nice unlike ones you buy in a pack that taste like
the sun (so hot you can’t bear to eat more than one in the finger food). After
that Natalie found me sitting on the steps in central and we then went to a
coffee shop just down the road called 1000 cups of coffee (I thought that was a
pretty awesome name) and to my delight they had an African shop there. It was
the hippest thing with all these different mugs hanging all around and then the
shop and a veranda with all these different but really comfy chair. The place
reeked chillness. A storm was building up and as you would expect the power
went off so Natalie’s dreams of buying an exotic coffee died but I bought a
leather arm band which has a sunset on it with a silhouette of a giraffe/zebra/obese
horse, basically it is really cool. Then we crossed over to the markets had a
look and I found a wooden elephant that looked like a real elephant so I
started the bargaining ritual where she was asking 50’000ugsh and I got her
down to 35’000ugsh so I thought it was a good deal. We then left and after
telling about my purchase I was told that I should have gotten it for about
15’000ugsh. Anyway I was feeling horrible even though I had only spent about
$13 on a good looking elephant but I was
being told by the experts that I could have gotten it for $4 to $6 dollars.
Anyway we got home Esther had a close look and realized that it was actually
good wood and I had nabbed it for a reasonable price. So after hearing that I
clung to that idea and felt better and after looking at I am really happy with
my buy because it looks really cool and fits in with my other animals; in terms
of style, shape, colour, texture and the way they all look together. So another
animal down and tonight I made a list of the people I need to get something for
and have made a budget/list thing to give me some direction and peace. I have
also been saving up for a painting from another market by putting away $10
every week from my weekly allowance and have enough. I like to look at the
stuff for sale, meditate on it in my mind and decided what I want to get and
focus on as souvenirs. Because masks freak me out and a lot of things are tacky
or are a bit demonically questing I have decided to go with small wooden animal
sculptures a painting or two and my wrist bands because those things will be
really cool; well that’s the plan for now. After my elephant purchase we went
back, had debrief, had bible study and then we hoped on the bus and went home.
Waiting for us was fish and chips which was incredible. I butted heads with
some people we came to an understanding and unbutted heads, I got my animals
out and played with them as I discussed what things we all were looking out for
and then I made a list and started my blog. The end.
So I will now start a new paragraph and might take out all
the full stops so you can live the day as fast and out of breath as I did. I
like it when I have an interesting day full of lots of interesting things
because I feel happy, can concentrate better, have a better day and feel closer
to God and more sober minded. So I think I will try and go for walks at lunch
to look at things and just chuck something interesting into the day. So the
days have been better this week and I am enjoying my time here once again plus
my cold is going away so I am very happy about that. Thankyou everyone for
everything and have fun in Australia with a week full of meat because you don’t
know what steak will be your last; also I am coping better with the meat
cravings with more meat being introduced into our daily diet along with ice
cream. If there is anything you don’t understand, want to know more about or
want to ask you shoot me an email, face book me something or on my wix website
you can send me a message in the contact section. It has been a cheese winkle
day. Peace out from Africa.
Thinking of my Petrofski cousins the past few days and all
the crazy fun we have had and will have in the future, thanks you chegtastic
creatures.
Friday -22/2/13
Today has been basically a dead day. We had two really good
lessons in the morning which I got a lot out of (I am being dead serious). We had lunch. We watched a movie called ‘gifted
hands’. Then at night we went to the first Rev Bar which is an event for Youth.
The best part about the night was Marilyn’s sermon which was about the struggle
of making a change in the world. Amongst that I beat Emma in a game of chess in
which he bailed in the end. We greeted people at the door by cheering and
clapping and in Winnie’s fashion screaming at them like a nutter; she made me
laugh so much. We went home late so I wasn’t the happiest and the day ended
like that. It was a pretty good day and I learnt alot of new things and wrote
all over my arm taking notes in the sermon by Marilyn.
Saturday -23/2/13
Today we visited the villages and I was in cluster 10. I
went with Jonal to the house we were staying at and on the way we met a boy
called Josh whom Jonal new and picking him and handing to me said lets kidnap
him and take him to my house. I’m pretty sure he was joking. Any way this
little boy was so cute and funny. I carried him around pretty much the whole
morning as he pulled my hair touched my skin and laughed hysterically as he
chattered in Ugandan as I spun him around and threw him up in the air. I wish I
could go back he is so precious. Also at that particular home was a girl who I
can’t remembers name, but she was really cool. We talked about her school and I
showed her on a map where I lived and she had also been to Australia in one of
the choirs. I then watched Laurence and Moses make Japady and I even rolled out
one. I will learn how to make heaps of African food and then me and Jess can
throw an African themed party. I was then summoned to play in a light soccer
game. I was standing there watching the guys do flips and like doing the tango
with the soccer ball. Then the soccer ball came my way and this was the
defining point of how white I felt and really am. Instead of doing so quick
step with the ball I instead stick my leg out without moving in a serious attempt
to stop the ball which I didn’t even touch. After that I walked back inside and
picked up Josh as an excuse as to why I couldn’t play. Then at around 11:30am I
had to go to for lunch as the Simpson’s had invited us over. I met Sherly and
Daniel on the way taking a picture with Sherly’s sponsor kid which was really
nice. I then found out that our lunch wasn’t properly approved so I felt really
bad. We then walked to the others were the situation made me really mad because
I felt like I was betraying my Ugandan friends; like I was better than them. I
can’t tell you how close I was to just saying I can’t do this and going back to
my house, but it would have been rude on my behalf, but at the same time I had
abruptly left the house I was with. Anyway I am trying to keep things as real
as they were and that is how it was. We then went to the Simpson’s hose were we
did end up having a really good time. We talked about lots of things, played with
heir children and had American food. My long confusion of what ‘chillie’ is was
silenced when I found out it was just mince and beans. So the meal was chips in
which you put the ‘chillie’ on top and then this cheese that is melted; it is
like plastic cheese but more orange. There were also beans which I had o try
and appear healthy that turned out to be really nice and the whole meal was
fantastic as well. That is probably because it wasn’t healthy and that was just
a fabulous experience in contrast to our very organic and healthy diet of rice
and bananas. We then changed for church and high tailed it back to the buses to
go to church.
I then talked to Sherly about some things in her office; the
offices are like secret underground bases hidden away in the building. After
that I went to the service in which I loved the sermon as usual. I love
Saturdays because I have such a good time at the villages and the service is
always really good. The sermons are really challenging and are engaging. I have
been so moved I went to Marilyn Skinner after woods and thanked her for her
sermons; she is really nice and just fabulous. We then talked in the car park
and went home. Today was really full on but fun at the same time, just how I
like it.
Sunday -24/2/13
Today was like every Sunday...pretty boring. I was in the children’s
ministry with the youngest kids and I had one girl whom I was helping take her
shoes off look at me and just cry probably because I am white. She then flopped
on the ground and threw a tantrum were she would look to see if anyone was
looking and proceed. I just left her decided that I wouldn’t be coming there
again for a while. We went and brought Japady from a side store close buy and
it was by far the best I have had so far. My favorite part of the day came when
it was time to go. I know it sounds like I am a brat and maybe I am but that is
how Sunday serving makes me feel. I did however have a good day because I had
fun with the people in my team and had a good chat with Jonal and Gloria. Then
at lunch I felt like I had made a milestone with a lot of people and have made
some real strong connections and now I can stop worrying so much about getting
that awkward initial friend trust I am in, in a funny way if you know what I
mean. So that was awesome.
We then went to Garden city where the girls did some
shopping and we then went to a cafe which had a range of good and bad food in
my opinion of tasting everyone’s stuff because I ‘m a scab like that. Actually
because I spent the remainder of my weekly allowance on an awesome elephant and
had no money I was willing to spend. We then went home in which I got everyone
hooked on Modern Family. We had this incredible potato and meat thing which was
just incredible, amazing and fantastic. Thomas went for a walk and it got late
so we worried about him for something to do, met a guy who I didn’t even know
lived here and then Thomas came home with some DVD’s he brought from the
(illegal) DVD store around the corner and we then watched this really
interesting movie called ‘The Life of Pi’. I then had a very interesting night
were as I was falling asleep I would feel like I was falling and wake up and
had a pretty strange dream. The end.
Monday -25/2/13
Today started off with much anticipation to read my bible,
meditate and achieve a lot of things, but has ended with me relaxed and having
accomplished near to nothing. I slept in till about 9:30am. Woke up and had two
pancakes in which I discussed politics with Callie. We all then watched modern
family. I Skyped my mum which was so awesome. I am so happy to have seen them
all even though a 40 minute session chews threw internet like a guy in a food
eating contest. I then had lunch of toasted sandwiches, soup and pineapple (our
usual Monday meal). Jess and I then walked to the (illegal) DVD shop and bought
some things. I purchased New Girl and Pillars of the earth; New Girl for Emily
as I am her angel this week and then Pillars of the Earth for me which I am severely
disappointed with as it doesn’t follow the book. Jess purchased some chick
flick, Sky fall and The Guardians. In Uganda the copyright laws are pretty much
non existent so what would seem illegal to me is actual the norm and somewhat
legal in Uganda. So that is the mindset I am taking on it like how in the bible
it talks about obeying the laws on your rulers and the rulers here don’t seem
to mind so I guess neither do I; very thin lined but it is awesome having cheap
access to DVD’s we would otherwise miss out on whilst being over here. So we pretty much spent the afternoon watching
our purchases and I painted at the same time. I am planning to paint a book
like my favorite artist Shaun Tan. We had tea of Spaghetti Bolognese. Danielle had her ears pierced, Callie cut of
my ducks tail and gave Jess’s bangs a cut an d then Thomas gave the rest a
trim. I then continued to write my blogs and will in the next ten minutes after
I see what everyone is up post my blogs, read my bible and go to sleep. Another
eventful week which I have experienced a lot of fun, boredom and learnt lots of
new, useful and useless things. Peace out from Africa for another week.
