Hey all!
I’m not sick anymore!
Wahoo!! I went to the local
Muslim health clinic and got a stool test last week, and I am one of the few
out of this household who does not have a parasite in them at the moment!! :)
It’s a great feeling.
And not being sick anymore is great. I can actually leave this death trap of
sickness and go places around town instead of lying in bed all day. Like on Saturday, I got out of here by 9am and
went to Seya. There is an orphanage
there and they have a school, but all it is a pavilion with no walls or even a
cement floor. It’s a dirt floor and for
their classroom separations they have a reed sheet type thing. It’s sad.
So we are helping them build an actual school. We are providing the cement and some
volunteer labor work, and the community is providing bricks and the other stuff
and also labor and food. It’s way
awesome of them to help out so much!
Our shower!
So Saturday, I went for the day to start helping with
construction. We started out with only 4
HELP volunteers there, but it soon increased to 11 volunteers. However a couple hours of digging and hoeing
trenches, 10 volunteers wanted to go back home.
I wanted to stay. I had no desire
to go back to that death trap! Luckily 3
more volunteers showed up right at that time, so I was able to stay with
them. I hoed the dirt. I shoveled the dirt. I carried rocks on my head from the quarry on
the mountain side to the construction site.
I played soccer with the kids for one of my breaks. I dug some more and hoed some more, and
carried some more rocks down the mountain again. Near the end of the day, the trenches were
all dug and we were able to put the rocks we had carried down the mountain into
the trenches! It was exciting to see
that we had gotten so far!
Doing Laundry...
That morning, NONE of the trenches had been dug. They had been started, but none were even
near completion! But a day of work
later, they were all done. It was
amazing to see! And that huge rock pile
that had been worked on for a couple days, disappeared in only about 30
minutes. It was cool to see the progress
throughout the day that the community and we, HELP volunteers, were
making! It was a great day! 8 hours of work! I was SO dirty by the time the day was
over. My legs were terribly disgusting
and so were my pants, shirt, and arms.
Near my ankles, my skin was literally the color of an African. I was black!
But only near my ankles! haha I
was SO dirty. :)
Across the street from our house and awesome thunderstorm clouds :)
Melissa and McCall got some outfits made! :)
Also, some good news: we are able to get glasses donated
from Deseret International Foundation and Julia’s mom’s Rotary Club in the
states! Wahoo! Deseret International will be sending them
sometime before August, so we were thinking of doing an Eye and Dental camp in
August before we leave. With the Rotary
Club, those glasses will be coming with a girl who is headed here for the 2nd
wave, so we will get those by June 14th! We will probably hold an Eye and Dental camp
sometime in July. So hopefully we will
be able to do two Eye and Dental camps!! :)
I really hope we can. The only
problem now is fundraising and where. We
don’t know where we should do it still.
We are thinking one of the places we should do it is Najjembe. The other place, maybe Lugazi in Kuwala
Hospital, but we aren’t sure. We need to
talk to Josephine still about that. But
yeah! I’ll keep ya informed on how the
project keeps coming along! :)
Our squat pot. The stick thing is a cover for the hole!
This week is the grand opening for Musana Jewelry!! :)
That will be a party:) There will be
music, food (I hope at least), entertainment, and the cutting of the
ribbon! The mayor will be there along
with some other town council people! It
is going to be great! I’m so excited for
these women. They are great women and
definitely deserve all that is happening for them and their business :)
Abby, Eve, Camille, and Rosette :)
Wednesday we are doing a team talent show. Without a piano, I have no talent! What should I do?? Any ideas?? ;) Maybe do a juggling talent like the one off
of Baptists at our Barbecue? I think I
might have to end up doing that one…it would work, right? :)
Nile River:)
This Thursday we leave for our safari at Murchison
Falls. It’s a 3 day safari and I am SO
excited! :) I’ll get to see Lions,
Elephants, and Zebras! Oh my! :) It is
going to be a blast! I will definitely
let you know how it goes next week! That
is, if I survive fighting a Lion just for a cool picture. ;)
Lugazi:)
I chatted with ALL of my family just this morning! It was great :) There was a lot of making
faces, laughing, and talking. I love my
family. :)
Well, it’s not much, but that’s all I have for you right
now. It’s not much because I was stuck
home sick for most of the week. Sorry! I'll put more pictures up later! For now, enjoy! :)
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