It has been two weeks since my arrival in Jinja, Uganda. I love it here, I feel at home and have an amazing peace about being here.
My day starts with breakfast at 7:30 am which consists of toast, eggs, pineapple and coffee. I feel very blessed to have hot showers and breakfast prepared for us as well as our bathrooms and floors cleaned. I am so spoiled this time around. It's really nice though because then we have more time to spend with the kids, and that's why we are here. After breakfast I head to Amani and get started bathing the kids after feeding them breakfast. They have play time, and songs, snack, more play time, lunch, potty, nap. I'm off at five if I have the morning shift. If I'm on the evening schedule i come at three and stay till eight. The kids at night have outside playtime, dinner, potty, bath, bed.
The day ends with me walking back to the volunteer house very exhausted and ready for bed. But first I have to prepare dinner which normally consists of spaghetti noodles and spike ( a spice I brought with me). Not very healthy but at least it's filling. :)
Oh we also have one on one time with the older kids and get to take them to town or read books or play with them. It's so nice to have that one on one time and get to hang out and talk to them. They are so sweet on outings and they love the attention.
Thank you all for your prayers. I can feel them every day. Last weekend I went to visit some friends at the YWAM base outside of Jinja. It was very strange to be there again and see people I haven't seen for three years, but it was fun as well. On the way back to Jinja I took a Boa ta- boa ta (which is a motorcycle the Ugandans use for transport.) And the roads were slippery because It had just rained. As we were driving down the road I am sitting side saddle, because I have a skirt on, and the back tire slips and I went flying off the back of this motorcycle and landed in the mud on my right side. Then the driver slid down the road with the bike on top of him. Amazingly neither of us was hurt seriously. I had a few scratches and bruises and the driver didn't seem to be hurt at all.
We ended up back at the YWAM base and one of my friends let me shower and lent me some of her clothes. I came back to the guess house safe and sound after that.
Then we went to have taco night at one of the staff members homes and played apples to apples.
So all that to say thank you for your prayers. Because of them I had no broken bones and didn't have to go to the hospital.
In Christ,
Rochelle
God has put
My day starts with breakfast at 7:30 am which consists of toast, eggs, pineapple and coffee. I feel very blessed to have hot showers and breakfast prepared for us as well as our bathrooms and floors cleaned. I am so spoiled this time around. It's really nice though because then we have more time to spend with the kids, and that's why we are here. After breakfast I head to Amani and get started bathing the kids after feeding them breakfast. They have play time, and songs, snack, more play time, lunch, potty, nap. I'm off at five if I have the morning shift. If I'm on the evening schedule i come at three and stay till eight. The kids at night have outside playtime, dinner, potty, bath, bed.
The day ends with me walking back to the volunteer house very exhausted and ready for bed. But first I have to prepare dinner which normally consists of spaghetti noodles and spike ( a spice I brought with me). Not very healthy but at least it's filling. :)
Oh we also have one on one time with the older kids and get to take them to town or read books or play with them. It's so nice to have that one on one time and get to hang out and talk to them. They are so sweet on outings and they love the attention.
Thank you all for your prayers. I can feel them every day. Last weekend I went to visit some friends at the YWAM base outside of Jinja. It was very strange to be there again and see people I haven't seen for three years, but it was fun as well. On the way back to Jinja I took a Boa ta- boa ta (which is a motorcycle the Ugandans use for transport.) And the roads were slippery because It had just rained. As we were driving down the road I am sitting side saddle, because I have a skirt on, and the back tire slips and I went flying off the back of this motorcycle and landed in the mud on my right side. Then the driver slid down the road with the bike on top of him. Amazingly neither of us was hurt seriously. I had a few scratches and bruises and the driver didn't seem to be hurt at all.
We ended up back at the YWAM base and one of my friends let me shower and lent me some of her clothes. I came back to the guess house safe and sound after that.
Then we went to have taco night at one of the staff members homes and played apples to apples.
So all that to say thank you for your prayers. Because of them I had no broken bones and didn't have to go to the hospital.
In Christ,
Rochelle
God has put
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