Friday, July 17, 2009

Last days in Uganda!! :(

So it has been so crazy this last couple of weeks. I have gone repelling down a waterfall, gone on a safari, and worked along side so many amazing people!! I don't want to leave . I have grown to love Lugazi so much and the people here have so much good potential and are so nice!!
So this last weekend was an adventure, I went to Gulu for about 4 days to build stoves for some villagers there. We left Saturday night at like 6:00 p.m. We were told that it was a 5 hr drive to get there but it ended up taking us about 12 hours to get there. I was crammed in the back of this bus with no room to move. About an hour into the drive, our bus broke down and we stood on the side of the rode for about 2 hrs talking to crazy Africans who were drunk. :) They ended up sending us another bus to pick us up but they sent a smaller bus, so for the first 20 min. I stood up on a bus. But some people were dropped off so I was able to sit down again. Then out of no were and for no reason, there were 188 speed bumps on the road. I counted them ALL. It got so annoying and this African man was taking up half of my seat. Anyways, we got there about 3:30 in the morning and went to our hotel. It is called the Multi choice Hotel. It is the worst hotel that I have ever seen. It smelt like urine and alcohol and the hotel overbooked so I ended up sharing my bed with Lacey. Then Bryan started to throw up blood so we gave him a blessing because we didn't know what else to do and went to bed. So the rest of the week, things kept falling through with appointments and supplies for stoves and everything. The only thing that went smoothly in Gulu was church. That seams to be the case in most places. Like when I went to Rwanda every things was crazy but going to church was great and things worked out perfectly. I love how that works out. The people loved us there. Later that day, we went back with the people in the Gulu ward and put on a musical fireside for them. It was so cool to talk with them and hear there stories and feel of there love for the church.
So even more things went wrong on that trip but I could go on forever and I want to write about one experience. On Saturday before we left to Gulu, we put on a big extravaganza for Aids and HIV. Some girls in our group put everything together with the youth outreach mission. Anyways there was a lot of performances and things going on and we even put on a parade around Lugazi. But the best part was when I was able to dance. A couple of us Mazugues learned how to dance like Africans and dance a traditional type of dance in front of all these people. It was fun, I was dressed in an African skirt with this straw skirt and a big fur thing on our buts so when we shook it, you could really see it!! :) I loved it. Then I was in another piece were we danced to "Were all in this together" from HSM. We did this dance with a couple of ladies from the MDT group we help who wanted to learn an American song and dance American. They are really amazing ladies who have learned how to live a good life and live positively even though they have Aids. Oh and I got up to dance with the Mayor. :) It was so much FUN!!!