Food

I've been uploading the photos from my cameras and putting them on my photo album site:
http://public.fotki.com/vexred9irl

Today I had a Chilli Beef and Cheese Pie, and Sushi, they were gooooood!

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Today I packed up my bags and left my wee en suite room at the priests house. Headed to work with Fr Kev and had a sort of 'training day', but rather than your usual type of training, we headed to the beach! For a very good reason though! This week's 'prayer word' is 'water' - what it is, what it means, how it affects our lives. What better place to experience it than to go to the beach! Love it! So spent about an hour there, just chatting, then headed back to the office for lunch, then we gathered in a circle and spoke about our reflection from the last 3 months and what we felt and thought at the beach. It was really quite nice. We finished work at 4pm and then headed home.

So for the next 3 months I'm staying with Hannah and her husband, lovely folk, and they have broadband which always makes me happy, it's just a shame there's no wifi network in the area cause then I could use my phone, but alas. Tomorrow they're going to a wedding so I might head to one of the Westfield Mall's close by and buy some stuff (mother my dear, we forgot to get those spare socks!) And I want to speak to Vodafone and see if I can get a sim card for my phone (Vodafone have now released the iphone, just last week).

Anyways, bit of a boring update, we're having home cooked indian tonight and I'm hungryyyy..

Speak soon,
Gb Cx

Hey everyone, hope you're well. I'm doing very good, settling in well and keeping busy.
Since my last update me and the girls have done a little bit of travelling with Fr. Bashobora to different parishes in the Mbarara district. On Saturday we went to a priests ordination about 2 hours drive from here. And on Sunday we went to a parish up in the hills (about 1.5 hours away) to have mass celebrated by Fr. Bashobora. The scenery was beautiful up there, rolling hills and wee houses on the side of the road. It reminded me of Israel except there's lots o greenery here.

The majority of the people here have never saw a white person, so when they do see us, like yesterday at mass, they just stare inquisitively and smile. Me, Louise and Elisa got up and sang a hymn with actions at the end of mass yesterday infront of around 500 people. It was amazing! Then we proceeded to find Fr. Bash (everyone just follows him because they know of his healing and exorcism ministry) and we turned round and there was a flock of kids surrounding us as we walked. We had dinner and then came back to Karama (our wee comunity).

I've got use to the food now, to be honest when it comes to dinner time you're too hungry to moan about the flavour or basicness of it - I take too much for granted at home so this is a great opportunity for me to stop being selfish! Did I tell you that there's no running water, so once you do the toilet you have to pour water from a bucket to clear it? I'm pretty much use to this too! I'm loving every moment of it.

Today we went into Mbarara to visit the primary and secondary school that the 3 of us will be teaching at. I'll be teaching religion, english and probably a bit of mathematics and sport. We're going back in tomorrow to chat with the teachers and have a look at the curriculum. I'm getting really excited about it because I never imagined teaching before, let alone do missionary work like this!

It's still a little difficult to put photos up so you'll have to wait for those, but I've taken tonnes (as always!). In other news, I'm planning on staying a little longer to do more missionary work in the communities and schools, but I have to wait for my lecturers response. If they don't give me the thumbs up I'll be home in 2 weeks, if they do, I'll be home in 5 weeks. So God willing... I just keep praying!

Today we also went for lunch in town, I got a chicken/cheese toastie, chips and beer, and it cost TWO POUNDS! How good! Haha!

Right I better head off and get some tanning done

Love you all, God Bless xx