The girls celebrating the end of the day!Monday of the second week, and the goal is looking more realistic. It's hot and steamy and we haven't had rain since we came, but the team is doing a great job. We are enjoying the help of a few excellent Ugandan workers too. Today we were able to mount the windows in and begin to brick the walls up around them.
Yesterday was a special day for us and t
he kids of the village. In the morning we went off to their church and enjoyed a typical African church service. Lots of clapping, singing and dancing around. Many moments of raising our voices to glorify God and to top it off some of our kids sang some item songs up the front. Us white people are amazed at the parts of the African body that can shake and move during dance!!
The afternoon was spent taking all of the children in the village out to a resort swimming pool. No mean feat, organizing 32 small and not so small children into bathers and into the pool. Some of the children had been before and some had not. Africans don't usually swim, so it was a thrill seeing the small ones get so excited, although some of them were so frightened.
We finished the afternoon off with sodas and cookies as a treat before the kids all went home tired and satisfied, and we the team went and sat at a restaurant by the Nile to have dinner.
Most of the team are doing well except for a few tummy bugs and slight nausea. We are tired by the end of each day but well satisfied.
We value your prayers heaps and look forward to telling more stories as the days go by.
Blessings
Team 9
Yesterday was a special day for us and t
he kids of the village. In the morning we went off to their church and enjoyed a typical African church service. Lots of clapping, singing and dancing around. Many moments of raising our voices to glorify God and to top it off some of our kids sang some item songs up the front. Us white people are amazed at the parts of the African body that can shake and move during dance!!The afternoon was spent taking all of the children in the village out to a resort swimming pool. No mean feat, organizing 32 small and not so small children into bathers and into the pool. Some of the children had been before and some had not. Africans don't usually swim, so it was a thrill seeing the small ones get so excited, although some of them were so frightened.
We finished the afternoon off with sodas and cookies as a treat before the kids all went home tired and satisfied, and we the team went and sat at a restaurant by the Nile to have dinner.
Most of the team are doing well except for a few tummy bugs and slight nausea. We are tired by the end of each day but well satisfied.
We value your prayers heaps and look forward to telling more stories as the days go by.
Blessings
Team 9
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