Week 2

After last weeks quiet week i was definitely looking forward to this week!! Last week ended by traveling into mukono on friday and meeting up with Susan and Jill at the guesthouse and spent most of friday just chilling out and catching up, I went down to hotel collier and for about sh/8000 (4 bucks) i got a nice swim. was very quiet only 3 other muzungus there and they were just talking and sunbaking. so i had the pool to myself :).

Saturday we (me, mary, susan and jill) got up rather early and headed into Kampala (major city) for a day out. was rather scary catching the matatu into the city because we hadnt been in there yet (ahh tomorrow im hanging out in kampala all on my lonesome!!) but the guy i was sitting next to in the matatu was very chatty and showed us where to get off. Ugandans are such lovely people but you have to be bit careful cuz the guys kinda like chatting muzungu girls up!! Last week there was this 17(!!) year old boy who found it funny that we werent married and werent planning on getting married for many many years! He said 'but you cant be happy if your not married' and 'i think you should get married this year!' AHH nooo! :D haha then had lots of fun conversations with him about no i dont live with my boyfriend in australia, no i dont have one, and lots of 'nakato (my name) sit next to me'. Mary found it oh sooo funny!! haha he was nice enough. if i dont ever get married in australia can always come back here :P A lady at susan's placement found it odd that she had been with her boyfriend for 7years without being married. she's like 'here we get married in one month'!!! :S and was trying to set Susan up! Hehe!

Neway back to Kampala ... our aim for the day was to go to baby watoto. i had instructions on how to get there but they werent great ones! so we were walking for aggggessss and finally asked for directions. was told to go back where we had come and up the hill so after walking around for about an hour...meeting some ah 'interesting' people...we finally arrived at baby watoto only to find we had been heading the right way and was only about 5 mins away from where we had asked directions!! :D ahh well!! so baby watoto is amazing! 81 babies!!! and it is such a nice place. pretty amazing. unfortunatley we arrrived at nap time so we got to hold a couple of babies but the rest we got to watch sleeping so it was still cute :) After leaving we went to garden city(mall type thing) and had a humongous pizza (it fed 6 people) from a place called newyork kitchen...selling american styled food...yumm. after this we went....how embarassing...to the movies!! haha it was lovely...air conditioned, comfy chairs and oh my gosh flushing toliets! woop woop! after some really bad adverts we watched the movie. it was funny at first i just couldnt understand what they were saying cuz they spoke soooo fast. noone speaks fast here (cept maybe me:P) but got used to it. as the movie finished we got back to reality, realising that we were still in uganda!! after icecream and a play on the internet we headed back to the guest house. a lovely western day!! :P

Sunday:
Sunday we went to church!! A full gospel, born agains church! it was great, bit odd but great :D. Maama (african lady we met last week) invited us and she pretty much helped run the show. we got there and she made us sit right at the front!! church started at 945 and finished at 1330. im used to long services but mary and susan thought it was a bit different from their 1.5hour services! so we sang songs, introduced ourselves, had a mini word, had more songs and dancing!! we danced! oh yeah! i knew some songs from last time i was here so i could sing along!! some in english but mostly in lugandan, it was awesome cuz everyone started praying and singing in lugandan but because of my church i found it pretty easy to enter in to Gods presence and just start worshipping in my language, and then everyone started praying in tongues and it was just awesome!!! they are pretty much the same in every language!! :P so we also had testimonies (lugandan) and then they did this thing where ppl could get up and sing their own worship song and people could show there appreciation by giving money! bit odd. but they wanted us to sing, so we sang!! argh! i had to sing into my own microphone in front of stacks of ppl...it was fun!! :P we sang power of your love because it was the only one we all knew. then the pastor preached and they had someone translate for us, but ah as africans get very worked up as the preach :D we really had not much idea what they were talking about!! Very fun tho...going to another church this sunday and looking forward to it!!