-Learning so much every day (about others and myself)
- Ugandan Friendliness- Smiles for free!!
- The Ugandan laugh
- The way Ugandans nod their head and raise their eyebrows to say yes!!!! I LOVE that!!
-The fact that Ugandan men are pretty much all beautifulJ
- The accent!! (When I can actually understand itJ)
- Fresh pineapple banana smoothies by FRED- Fred’s the coolest.
- African breeze
-The thunderstorms!
- Fresh avocados to spice up the matoke I eat every 5 seconds!
- Having an African family that loves me as if I’ve been theirs forever. Love you Mama Winifred, Joa (16), Samula(15), and Jane (9)!!
- Being looked up to as an older sister. (I remember how much I thought of my older siblings when I was little—and it means a lot to me to have that now. Oh and I still look up to my older siblings)
-Samula teaching me how to sweep and mop.
-Joa coming out to squish two massive cockroaches by the latrine for me.
-Teaching my family card games like Go Fish and E.R.S.
-STAR SPINNING with my brothers and sister when the power goes out (which it does every day) and running face first into clothes lines!!!
-Eating Kikajjo (sugar cane) with Mama on the back porch until my teeth hurt.
- Tea time—Milk tea= my favorite!!
- Fresh coconut, mangos, and pineapples!!
-Insane amounts of JACK FRUIT!!!
- Bathing out of a bucket
- Being given an African name by my family: Nasamula (which I’ll have you know means Princess!!)
- Chapotis and Samosas at the hut canteen
- Neighborly generosity and hospitality (Open door policy baby!!)
-Pickup football games…bare feet and all
-Stoney Tangawizi (the ginger ale they have here)
-Mukono town!!
-The craziness of the market
-Nearly being mutilated by the Boda-Boda motorcycle taxi’s on the side of the streets (it’s thrilling, really!!)
-The fact that I’ve been here for almost 4 weeks and I haven’t caught ebola!! Or gotten sick at all!!
-“Rolling”: going out at midnight with our Ugandan friends to get Rollexes (fried eggs rolled up in chapatis) at a street side stand. “Once you roll, you lose control”!!
- My fellow USP students and how close we’ve already become
-Ugandan dorm mates
-Fruit parties
-Thrashing out huge issues and struggling to find answers, not necessarily in the same way but definitely with the same passion! beauty
-Swimming in
-Men holding hands in the street (heterosexual men)
- Lingala music!! And getting stranded by the rain in a music shop!!
-Pickup trucks with speakers blasting African music in the streets.
-a different kind of love
-a different kind of beauty
-a different kind of time
-Community Worship
-The
-simplicity
-BREATHING
1 comment:
Hey. It's Alicia. I love what you're doing over there. My husband and I will be over there one day with Mercy Ships as soon as our kids have all their shots and we can get a sponsor. We'll be going over as missionaries. God bless you and have a safe journey.
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