Week ?

- Chantell thinks it is week five. I think time passes differently in her world. Pretty sure it is week 3. But who knows. It feels like I just got here.

- The catchphrase bird continues to haunt me. New goal in life is to figure out exactly which bird is making that noise... so I can kill it. haha kidding... I feel like I am always surrounded by strange new noises. Rain on a big tin roof was the most frightening... Anything hitting our metal door still makes me jump. I feel like I am in an episode of Lost. I often have no idea what I am looking at or hearing. My family uses flashlights for light. We have one oil lantern but we only use it during dinner. And even still it doesn't really illuminate the room. We don't have ceilings in our house so light isn't really contained... Anyway my point is that things look very different in the dark.

- I woke up this morning with like 35 new bug bites and a huge new bruise on my leg. What did I do last night?

- This past weekend I went to Luweero with the other Americans who are in the Missions Emphasis program. We visited different locals in ministry. An Anglican bishop, Catholic priest and the Compassion program. Every place we went we all had to stand up and introduce ourselves to the crowd. The Compassion kids were a riot. I have a compassion kid in Thailand so I kind of knew the program but it was amazing to see it locally. One of the women who runs it was formerly a sponsored child. She seemed to LOVE her job. The place Luweero wasn't hugely exciting... it is where Museveni started his gorilla war in the 1980s. It also has a higher percentage of people who are HIV+. I didn't bring my phone with me this weekend and when I got back to campus I had a text from my host sis telling me that the house was too quiet and I needed to come home. So sweet. :)

- My classes are SO good. I have a class called Faith and Action and it is basically a continuation of a class I took last year called Intercultural Ministry Studies. It is lots of discussion and questioning. We are reading a book called The Primal Vision. I am loving it.

- Yesterday my youngest sister, Kevin, had a meltdown. She is 14 and I have never seen her get upset over anything. I guess she was missing a coin and she thought that maybe Sam had taken it or she was just upset that it was lost... she came out to the side of the house where we were cutting cassava and she was all worked up. She had her bottom lip stuck out and her voice was high and whiny. She went back inside and our sister Sarah came out and said that Kevin was crying because she couldn't find her coin. I was like how much was this coin worth??? 500 shillings. That is a quarter in US money. She cried for like ten minutes and then got over it. I was a bad big sis and couldn't help thinking how cute she was all worked up.