It's Been A While

Western Orphanage, Nabukalu town, Bugiri district

Sorry that I haven't posted in a while, it has been a busy week! We arrived at the Western orphanage about a week ago, and it has been a whirlwind of activity. This orphanage is not nearly as remote as the last one. Instead of being an hour from the nearest big town we are 15-20 minutes away. So we have been able to more easily and quickly purchase supplies for the kids and also we can run into town in the evenings when the kids are studying instead of sitting around the orphanage being bored!

Also, when we had been here for two days, a group of 11 Mzungu came with Children's HopeChest Tom Davis' organization from Colorado Springs. Asbury people might remember Tom speaking last December at our World AIDS Day Chapel on December 1st.... or not... Anyway, this guy Dan the leader was really cool, we got on a bus with them and traveled around to a few potential feeding centers that Peter Mutebi is trying to get set up, HopeChest was giving representatives from 4 churches the chance to sponsor these feeding centers.

It was weird travelling with people who had just gotten off the plane a couple of days before, because to them, we seemed like experts in UG even though we had only been there a couple of weeks. I can already speak the language fairly well, I can order things like food or drinks and I know my numbers all in Luganda, so it was cool to be a sort of guide for these guys. They ended up coming on Sunday to a goat feast that we had at the orphanage for the kids and the community church members. It was crazy. I got up at 5:15 AM to watch the goat slaughter. They built a teepee with these poles and then a muslim kid at the orphanage covered his head and then sliced open the goats jugular. Then they tied the hind feet to the tepee, hung the goat upside down and peeled the skin off and well, maybe this is too much information, but it was crazy.