Hi Friends! 4 April 2015
Happy Easter, it’s that time again when we celebrate MEAT! It is only on special occasions that a typical Ugandan gets to eat meat. When I ask the students what they will do at home for the holiday, their reply is, “I will dig and I will eat meat!” Town has been buzzing with people coming home for the holiday. Both Easter and Christmas brings people home to visit their families, the buses raise their fares and thieves get busy! Yesterday morning a friend discovered his car had been broken into, the only thing missing was the lug wrench and another friend went to pick up his suit from the dry cleaners but it had been robbed the night before, his good suit for Easter is gone. What a great way to celebrate the Resurrection!
Happy Easter, it’s that time again when we celebrate MEAT! It is only on special occasions that a typical Ugandan gets to eat meat. When I ask the students what they will do at home for the holiday, their reply is, “I will dig and I will eat meat!” Town has been buzzing with people coming home for the holiday. Both Easter and Christmas brings people home to visit their families, the buses raise their fares and thieves get busy! Yesterday morning a friend discovered his car had been broken into, the only thing missing was the lug wrench and another friend went to pick up his suit from the dry cleaners but it had been robbed the night before, his good suit for Easter is gone. What a great way to celebrate the Resurrection!
The ladies are sewing like mad; we now have throw pillows, beautiful skirts and pillow cases in addition to our hand bags. While trying to explain how I wanted the throw pillows done I described a big 8x8 square in the middle, surrounded by small squares and the outside a border of black. You would have thought I was asking them to recreate the Eiffel tower from cloth. It took some serious attempts, we modified and attempted again and at last we have throw pillow covers that will fit a throw pillow perfectly, as long as the pillow is trapezoid shaped!! This week we finally started visiting hotels with some beautiful products to sell to the tourists. Now, let the tourists come! Might I just add here; if you’ve never been to Uganda (or even if you have!) it’s an incredibly beautiful place to visit! Lovely, friendly people, incredible scenery and obviously, visiting the majestic mountain gorilla is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
On that note, I am considering organizing a group of people to volunteer, tour and experience Uganda in January or February 2016. I think three weeks would be the minimum amount of time, to fly that distance you would want to recover from the jet lag before you would want to turn around and return! You would fly into Kigali, Rwanda, which is just three hours from Kisoro. If you are interested tell me specifics on what your ideal trip would be, what kind of things you would definitely want to do, or not do! and what ages your party would consist of.
The rainy season has finally descended upon us in full force. Every day this week the rain has come, usually just for an hour or so in the afternoon, but on Tuesday is rained all day long. This is when I hope it finds me at home, so I can crawl under the covers with a good book and stay warm. Of course most people walk or use motor bikes for transportation which means you are “delayed” by the rain wherever it finds you, usually huddling under a storefront. Last night we waited out the rain for hours before it finally lightened enough that we got on the bike laden with all our bags and goods that we had just bought from the ladies. It was a cold, wet ride back to town as Sam tried to cover all three of us with the umbrella and Didas tried to drive slow enough that the umbrella didn’t blow away! We dashed to my room to find no electricity to make tea to warm us. While we huddled in my dark room they told me they hoped the Pygmy’s didn’t come and steal the fuel from the motor bike. I assured them they wouldn’t come while it was raining so hard. Sure enough a few minutes later someone is knocking on my door, “they are stealing your fuel”. They stole the fuel to “huff” and then they left the tube draining out onto the ground.
Of course these things disappoint and disgust me at times, but I remind myself that crazy things happen everywhere, thieves are everywhere, even at home. With terrorists bombing Universities and diseases taking babies, these are just little, tiny bumps in the road. I believe the world is full of amazingly good people, and we far outweigh the bad ones.
Enjoy the Meat, take nothing for granted and Love with all your heart!
Happy Easter,
Bonnie
Purity: Purity is natural. we come into this world with all the right instincts. we are innocent and perceive things as they should be, rather than how they are. our conscience is clear, our hands are clean and the world at large is truly beautiful.
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