Sorry, I'm late again!
On Friday 11th, I was unfortunately not well enough to go to children's club so my wonderful team-mate Anna ran Blessed Word by herself!
Thankfully by Saturday (12th) I was feeling much better and the five of us were invited round to our friend Lawrence's house. We know Lawrence through KBC and was one of the first people to make friends with us. It was a really nice time and we were able to fellowship (and learn some dance moves from) some of the other guys we know from church! See below for the mountainous plate of yummy food we had for lunch!
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| the other four |
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| Lawrence |
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| Me and Kathryn |
On Monday 14th I spent the day helping Anna and Kathryn to choreograph a dance for LT Warriors - the dance group they are part of at church. It was an opportunity for me to resurrect some of my moves from GCSE Dance and various dance shows I've been in. It was great fun and I ended up going to LT with the girls in the evening and was signed up for the performance on Good Friday!
On Tuesday we woke up to very heavy rain, which we then had to walk to school in! On our way we came across a little girl walking by herself. She didn't have a coat and I felt bad walking next to her with my rainmac! So I introduced myself and she took shelter under the side of my coat. We walked together for a good 40 minutes, a long way for a little one to go by foot!
We all arrived at school, a little damp to say the least. We recapped on phonics and did some new words with the children. In nursery section, me and Susie told a story about a zoo (hence the lion impression underneath).
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| telling a story |
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| learning some new words |
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| Susie doing some one on one with Baby Class |
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| Me with some of Middle Class |
On Wednesday morning Susie and I went down to Ruth Mother Care again to pick the children up and bring them back to the Smile House. All the children were very excited to go to their mzungu teachers' house and they asked if they would be able to meet our sons and daughters!! We all piled into a taxi and spent the whole journey singing 'we are marching in the light of God' and 'i love you Jesus deep down in my heart'. When they arrived at the house we played some games with them before giving each of them a new pair of shoes, a hat, a jumper and some school things. It was so lovely to be able to bless the children and their teachers in this way; we all love going to RMC and have built up great relationships there. Wednesday was the children's last day before the Easter holidays so we won't be going there for a few weeks - we'll miss them!
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| New Shoes! |
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| Trying a 10-11 aged jumper on 3 year old Patrick! |
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| New hats |
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| The wonderful Teacher Ruth and Teacher Monica |
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| Helping the girls go through their school packs |
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| RMC and Smile |
On Thursday 17th we became builders once again down at Blessed Word. We were carrying bricks, stones and sand to the building site and digging foundations. After lunch, things got a bit muddy!
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| Very muddy legs! |
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| Digging |
On Good Friday we ran children's club at Blessed Word. We taught about the resurrection and had a little Easter egg hunt for the children too! As the building work was going on, we had less space than usual but that didn't put the kids off - we had 61 come along!
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| The Hokey Kokey |
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| Easter Egg Hunt |
Afterwards we went to church for the Good Friday service. I was making an honorary LT Warriors appearance alongside Kathryn and Anna and we were dancing in the service. It went really well!
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| the girls ready for the dance |
On Easter Sunday we went off to church. Two ladies who I know from Girls' Brigade, Ruth and Denise, were visiting Uganda and they came along to KBC. Afterwards they treated us to a lovely lunch and then we went to visit a GB company out here.
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| Out for lunch |
We went to 1st Kampala GB Company who were so welcoming. They showed us how they make candles and were also making bracelets. We joined in their Bible study too. It was really lovely to visit a Girls' Brigade out here and I have been meaning to since we arrived! Thank you Ruth and Denise for taking me and Susie out for the afternoon, we really enjoyed ourselves!
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| Making bracelets |
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| Captain Dorcus |
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| 1st Kampala GB |
We had Easter Monday off as it was a public holiday. Susie, Anna, Shavan, Innocent, Patrick, Ivan and I drove down to Entebbe for a day at the beach! We swam in Lake Victoria and tried some Ugandan-style fish and chips - to which Anna exclaimed "my fish has a face!". It was a lovely day out, despite the sun burn! Oops!
Over the last week we have spend lots of time at Blessed Word, building, building and more building! I'm going to come home with some impressive arm muscles!
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| the rain looking pretty |
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| carrying stones on my back! |
On Friday Anna was ill, so Kathryn stood in for her. It was my final week at Blessed Word and we played some new games with them. We told the story of Pentecost and gave out glow sticks which caused a ripple of giggles when the children saw them changing colour! It has been great to get to know the children at Blessed Word and I'm very much looking forward to returning to FBC - I've missed them!
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| What's the time Mr Wolf? Dinner time! |
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| Trying to see their glow sticks glowing in the dark |
Please pray for the health of the team at the moment!
We now have less than three months left in Uganda :( Thank you for all your love and support. Grace x
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