True African life

So there is so much to blog about and so I will attempt to explain in as much detail as possible why my heart has been sold to Mbale Uganda.

On Monday of last week we prepared early in the morning to go to the Bunabuyoka Village. I’m pretty sure I have mentioned this place. It is where we are going to be building a health clinic and finishing a school and doing some Entrepreneurship classes. So we are preparing to take all of the gear that we will need to survive 3 days living in an African village. We talked about how we were going to be True Africans by the time of this trip. So we decided to test out how we were going to take our mattresses on our Boda Boda... This is our practice round....

And then we decided we would let the locals figure it out!! our ideas weren't the best...

When we got to the village i loved every minute of it!!!  When we got there we had so much fun. We hauled rocks down from this hill so that they could make the foundation for the health clinic and the floor of the school. We were so tired and the kids during recess wanted to help us so they picked up rocks that were often times bigger than themselves... But they were so excited to help!!!!

Also I am loving the local food here... we get to eat with our hands and i am really liking the posho( which is the white stuff) and matoke (which is smushed bananas).... can you tell?











Then there is a boy named joseph, at first we thought his name was yusef... but upon further investigation im pretty sure it is joseph.

He was the most excited and happy boy! I would squeeze him till his eye pop out. He became my best buddy. My favorite thing was when we would be walking up the hill to go and get more rocks i would feel this hand slip into mine and i would look down and see him staring back at me with his inquisitive eyes. my heart melts every time!
He is also a huge dancer! Every time music is on he cant stop moving his body and he doesn't move the way an african usually does. He goes crazy and moves all of his body parts. i love it! we had so much fun together. It got to the point that i would wait to feel that sweet little hand to reach for mine and then i knew i could climb that treacherous mountain again to bring more rocks down ( i realized at that point that i was getting a glimpse of what it was like to build the Salt Lake Temple)
He started to be my guide and out walk in front of me and hold my hand so that i wouldn't fall... He is only 4 years old! how do these kids get to be so old at such a young age. they are so incredible and sweet i don't think i will ever find kids like this anywhere else! I love them!!!!

This is vikki and Brenda, their english is great and they loved to teach us all of their games.. one was like tug-o-war and i couldn't stop laughing. i

The pile of rocks that we carried down from the mountain

i think they were trying to do the Shaka but couldn't quite get their fingers to cooperate  :) 

My man Jospeh! i love him!!!!