I forgot to write about this before but I have a Luganda name that my host dad calls me all the time. Its Namuganga. I'm not sure what it means or what clan my family is from. Every time I ask I get a different answer so I'm not sure. All I know is that I share it with my host sister Matilda. And I found out yesterday that the name of the village that I live in is Nabuti. So I'm Namuganga Deborah and I live in Nabuti. Ha!
I've been sick this last weekend but I'm better for the most part just a little tried. Not sure what it was. It may have been from eating peanut butter balls or it may have been a bug? I not sure but its all over. All the same I went on the IMME trip and went to Rahki to the Kabaali community centre that is partially run by Canadians. They had some really neat projects that they do to help the community that are really creative. If you want to hear more about the trip just ask me when I get home. Which is soon.
I think that I will get to go on a safari this weekend with some of the other IMMEs it should be a fun time.
Happy Early Easter everyone!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Sorry I haven't had a very good update lately. I've been very busy. Things are going well, I've just had a lot going on.
As you saw from the picture I visited the Nile River - even got to touch it!
We had a chance to talk with a couple of missionaries last weekend while we were in Jinja. We also stayed in a place that had a hot shower and saw a cobra! Quite a weekend.
This coming weekend we will be visiting some other missionaries when we travel to Rahki. We are never really sure what will happen when we get there until we get there but I'm sure we will have a good time.
Hope to have some more stories for you later.
As you saw from the picture I visited the Nile River - even got to touch it!
We had a chance to talk with a couple of missionaries last weekend while we were in Jinja. We also stayed in a place that had a hot shower and saw a cobra! Quite a weekend.
This coming weekend we will be visiting some other missionaries when we travel to Rahki. We are never really sure what will happen when we get there until we get there but I'm sure we will have a good time.
Hope to have some more stories for you later.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
This week...
So I'm past the half way point of being here in Africa. I feel so much more at home. I no longer fear for my life every time I walk on the street. I don't think twice any more about washing my underwear in my bath bucket after I'm done bathing.
It almost seems like I've always been waken up in the morning by the radio playing and my host dad coming in and asking how my night was before he heads off to work. I realized this last week after coming back from Kapchorwa how much at home I felt. I know what to expect in a lot of situation or maybe now I know not to have expectation for some things. Yet this knowing what to do and how to act doesn't mean that I still don't want to be home some days....
This week there wasn't anything to exciting that happened. But some good things that happened are:
1. Talking to Biz (my sister) on the phone an extra time. Very unexpected but just to make sure that I wasn't kill in the mudslide. hahaha
2. Making shadow puppets with my host nephews when the power went out. They love my head lamp. I wish that I could give it to them at the end but I don't think I'm allowed.
3. Looking up at the night sky and seeing so many stars! They were so bright too, cause every one in the village's power was out.
4. Went to Kampala and drinking some good African tea!
5. Went to talk to a Missionary that was in Somallia in the 50's and 60's. It was really neat to hear about his experiences. One of my favorite things he said was this: " the teeth may occasionally bite the tongue but that doesn't mean that they separate." I really like that.
6. This technically happened last week but I forgot to tell you about it.... Our campus had elections. It included big parades with bands and people walking on stilts! It was great! they even went off campus and the people in Baguju came out of their homes and down the streets to join the parade.
7. Last Saturday we also went to Jinja to learn about an AIDs/HIV support program. We went to a village so see one of their programs for giving people purpose and hope to live positively by doing communities farms. It was so neat! The family that headed up the farm for the clients in the area gave us passion fruit that they grew. It was my first time to eat passion fruit.
Something that I'm looking forward to is this weekend we are going to Jinja to talk to missionaries and to have some free time!!!! SO excited! I think we might go swimming and I think that there are going to be showers with hot water!!!!!!!!!! It will just be nice to hang out with other Americans and not have to worry about school work or other things that go along with living in another culture.
As always, thanks for your thoughts and prayers.
It almost seems like I've always been waken up in the morning by the radio playing and my host dad coming in and asking how my night was before he heads off to work. I realized this last week after coming back from Kapchorwa how much at home I felt. I know what to expect in a lot of situation or maybe now I know not to have expectation for some things. Yet this knowing what to do and how to act doesn't mean that I still don't want to be home some days....
This week there wasn't anything to exciting that happened. But some good things that happened are:
1. Talking to Biz (my sister) on the phone an extra time. Very unexpected but just to make sure that I wasn't kill in the mudslide. hahaha
2. Making shadow puppets with my host nephews when the power went out. They love my head lamp. I wish that I could give it to them at the end but I don't think I'm allowed.
3. Looking up at the night sky and seeing so many stars! They were so bright too, cause every one in the village's power was out.
4. Went to Kampala and drinking some good African tea!
5. Went to talk to a Missionary that was in Somallia in the 50's and 60's. It was really neat to hear about his experiences. One of my favorite things he said was this: " the teeth may occasionally bite the tongue but that doesn't mean that they separate." I really like that.
6. This technically happened last week but I forgot to tell you about it.... Our campus had elections. It included big parades with bands and people walking on stilts! It was great! they even went off campus and the people in Baguju came out of their homes and down the streets to join the parade.
7. Last Saturday we also went to Jinja to learn about an AIDs/HIV support program. We went to a village so see one of their programs for giving people purpose and hope to live positively by doing communities farms. It was so neat! The family that headed up the farm for the clients in the area gave us passion fruit that they grew. It was my first time to eat passion fruit.
Something that I'm looking forward to is this weekend we are going to Jinja to talk to missionaries and to have some free time!!!! SO excited! I think we might go swimming and I think that there are going to be showers with hot water!!!!!!!!!! It will just be nice to hang out with other Americans and not have to worry about school work or other things that go along with living in another culture.
As always, thanks for your thoughts and prayers.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Kapchorwa!!!!!!!!
This is the view from where we gathered this past Sunday for a worship service. I heard one Ugandan say that when you sit and look out at the view here you are sitting looking out at the future.hmm...I liked that. ( the picute was taken by jenna davis- my camera broke before I went so I didn't take it. But luckily I fixed it today.)I had a great time there. I learned soooo much and did so many new things. Here is a list of them(not to mention I really loved my host family there!):
1.I smashed a big spider on the wall and watch in horror as tons of baby spiders came crawling out from under my shoe!
2. learned how to really wash clothes by hand in a bucket ( I have been doing it every week here but this was the first time that someone really showed me the correct way to do it.)
3.Learned how to cook matooke, posho, cabbage, and greens African style!!! and learned some Kupsabin words.
4. Sat on a cliff that over looked the valley below and an eagle( I think) swooped down into the valley and as it was flying down it's wing touched my foot!!!
5. drank sour milk!!! oh yah just about every night that I was there. Um lets just say it was sour and looked liked baby vomit with specks of ash in it. ( the ash was from a specific tree that they burned and stirred in the sour milk to kill the bacteria.)
6. Got rammed by the family's cow. I was fine only got some scratches.
7. "Fetched" water from the village tap.
8. Killed and help slaughter a chicken.
9. Then ate it's gizerd, an egg that hadn't been layed yet that was on the inside, and some other shady pieces of meat that had tendons or cartalige on them -not sure. I just chewed twice, smiled and swallow it as fast as I could. hahaha
10. Went on a 6 hour hike on the weekend though the hills to 3 of the water falls that were in the area
11. Then a group of us stood under one of the waterfalls on a giant rock and let the water from the falls come splashing down on us.
12. Took my first real hot shower since coming here to Uganda at the place that we stayed for the weekend by Sipi falls.! It was great to really wash all the soap out of my hair. ( as a side note I really don't mind bucket baths but it was really nice not to have to bend down to bath myself.)
I have alot of other stories about my family and other things that happen but don't have time to write them all down. So you will just have to ask me about them when I get home:)
Thanks for reading my blog and keeping me in your thoughts and prayers.
love
Debbi
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