Oli Otya? (Hi how are you)
Our Assistant is teaching us to use the Mutatus (The taxi cabs). So we went on an adventure to the City where there is a taxi park with thousands of taxi's going to thousands of different places, and they want us to learn how to do this on our own! it is a little overwhelming, but i think i could get from our house to the Taxi park, downtown, and home. There are quite a few legit places in town, for coffee, and stuff... a little piece of home if we start missing it. I constantly feel like i am going to be hit by a Boda (motorcycle) or a Mutatu... they drive like crazy men, and we cross the street all the time and its like playing frogger, but we are the frogs. They are a little more gracious to us though becuase we are Muzungus (white men) which means we dont know the rules "Muzungu Muzungu". We stick out like sore thumbs.
Our First class today was on African religions. It was very interesting. unlike alot of cultures in Africa, Uganda actually praises and thinks Twins are a blessing. Our teacher, who actually wrote one of the books we are reading, and is a native Ugandan, is teaching us about how Christianity's has come to Uganda, and how in a lot of cases it has failed. It all comes back to not rejecting their culture and way of life and trading it for western Christianity, but embracing them and who they are, and bringing Jesus without being caught up in legalism.
After that we went to the Jordan House Orphanage. They were more then happy to see us, and all hugged us and gave us the tour around. There are about 25 kids to one room, and two bathrooms between all of the kids. They eat beans and chunky potatoes, and yet they were some of the happiest kids you would ever see. They sang us about 15 songs, and then begged us to sing back to them, which of course we were terrible at, because White people just cant sing and dance the way Africans can! we are pretty lame :)
We hope to continue a relationship with this orphanage the whole time we are here and just go back and love on these Children!
Tonight we have language class and then we go to bed early because we are visiting the tomb of the kings of Uganda to help us put images with the things we are learning in religion! so that should be a very interesting trip!I am really excited to really dig deap into these peoples lives and culture yet i feel like it is already going by so fast.
3 comments:
What's your record on the mutatus? I think we got 23 in Kigali one time...haha...and you should definitely sneak a ride on a boda...it's a blast!!
You are a crack-up...I agree...take a Boda. My brother and I took a Boda for about 2 miles only...with 2 HUGE African drums and a few other instruments...each on our own Boda. I don't think that I have ever been so sure I would die ever in my life. After I came back from Uganda, I remember telling someone that the most dangerous thing about the area is the transportation :)
i miss you! be safe
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