It Has Begun

Hello blog. Well the weeks are flying by like crazay. I’ve been here a month already. Wow. It’s been a lot of fun so far. Everyone here in our group is cool. There are 16 of us right now and 8 more are coming on Tuesday. Some of us will be living in the mayor’s guest house apart from our house we have now. There’s about 15 girls and like 6 guys here. It’s interesting living with so many ladeez…….yep very interesting. They are all cool girls fortunately.

A lot of great things have happened this last week. Last Saturday we went to Kampala and saw Uganda vs. Niger in a qualifying game for the World Cup. Uganda killed em..........1-0, yep one goal to zero goals. It was the first pro soccer game I’ve been to and it was way fun. There was a ton of people and people kept trying to pick-pocket all of us mzungus (white people). Some of them even staged a fight as a distraction while little kids tried to pick our pockets. Those fools didn’t get the best of me though.

Tuesday was Martyr’s Day here. It’s a national holiday to remember 23 Christians that were put to death by a tribal king in the 1800’s. Every year thousands of people go on pilgrimages to travel to Namengogo, the site of the martyrdom. They come from all over the world, but mainly from neighboring countries. We went there to see and there were soooo many people there. There was a side for the Catholics and a side for the Protestants to have their prayer sessions. There were big choirs singing and stuff too. It was very cool to see.

More good news—yesterday we started the secondary schools club at Lugazi HhhhljklmkbmkjjkjkkjHill View and it went great! I was a little nervous as to how it would turn out. There were about 30 kids so we just talked to all of them and introduced ourselves. We separated into groups and for each group we have 2 “mzungu mentors”. We all thought of a name to call the club and they chose “Team Etangala” (etangala=light) as our name. We gave them a sheet with questions to fill out to tell about themselves and they put some questions in the question box. We read them today and they were pretty funny. Im really excited for this club. The kids are awesome and they warmed up to us and they love it too. Next week will be the first lesson, it’ll be on empowerment/self-esteem.

I’ll try again to put up some pics well see if I get lucky and it works. Uh I think im done for now. I'm going to Rwanda tomorrow! goodbye.