Oh Sabbath Afternoons...

This last Sabbath was an amazing one. Travis and Krystin were both taking well deserved naps but I was in this really good, ambitious mood so I decided to go outside and play with the kids. Well first, I took the rest of our mashed potatos to the director's house to give to Eunice and the rest of the family. A few weeks before, Eunice had come to our house and tried the mashed "Irish" (as Ugandans call potatoes) and she hadn't stopped talking about them since. When I arrived at the door, they all got so excited! Milly told me to go get my camera so I ran back to our house and came back to see Enoch, Alice, Mary-Bo, Grace, and Benjamin all crowded around the pot eating the mashed potatos with their hands. I started to take some pictures and Milly ran over saying she wanted to be in the photos as well. Its was so much fun!

On my way back from Milly’s, I saw some of the boys singing the Ugandan anthem with these little home made flags stuck in the ground. So I ran back to the house again and switched my camera out with the Flip. I got them singing the whole thing on video.





I ended up promising them I would be back soon to set up the slackline and ran back to our house again to grab the webbing and clips. For those of you who don't know what slacklining is, it basically consists of tying a special kind of rope between two objects and walking on it. Our house is located in the boys village of campus and I set up the slackline in the woods behind all of our houses. Soon the whole compound came out to prove their skills. I gave one of the older ones the Flip and another one the camera while I walked next to each boy as they took turns walking on the slackline.

There are these twin boys named Derek and Sam. Well, I used to think there was only one of them but I kept saying hi to Derek and half the time he look really happy and the other half he looked really confused. Finally, it dawned on me that there were two of them. Anyway, when I helped Sam (or was it Derek?) up onto the slackline I noticed he had a huge mud-caked gash on his big toe. It looked pretty bad so I told him to come to our house later that night so I could clean it.

                                                                     Derek and Me

                                                                       Sam and Me
 
After all the boys took a shot at slacklining, they asked if we could do some exercises. Some of them had been doing ab workouts with Krystin and I so I agreed. We did some yoga moves and some stretching. It was SO FUNNY! Then we all went back to our house to load all the videos and pictures onto the computer. All of them crowded around as we watched the video and looked at ALL the pictures they had taken. Then we did some more yoga and they all headed back home. 

Namaste

Warrior Two Pose

I was listening to a sermon on my comuter when some of the boys knocked on our door. It was Sam and his friends. They had brought him over so I could look at his toe. I got my gloves on (don’t worry), grabbed the hydrogen peroxide, bandaids, and a tampon (we have to use tampons as cotton balls since I neglected to bring any). I started cleaning it but it was too crusty and looked painful so I went back inside, grabbed a basin of water, some candy, and a Bible and for the next 30 minutes we ate candy, soaked Sam’s foot, and read Bible stories as the sun went down. It was possibly one of the most rewarding Sabbaths I have ever had. 


-Megan