About two weeks ago the only two girls in the fistula ward who spoke English left to go home. These two girls befriended me and so I was sad to see them go. These two girls were Peace and Harriet.
So what do you do with a bunch of girls who do not speak your language? You SING! Lindsey and I spent Friday afternoon singing with them. We had no one to translate, but that did not stop God from allowing us to spend hours in fellowship! How great is God!
Afterwards we headed to the market in Kasinga with our friend Sarah who is also form the USA. We placed orders for skirts and dresses with our seamstress and then something amazing happened. Lindsey found the closest thing to a COOKIE. It was a hot, fried banana cookie wrapped in banana leaves. I think the best thing about it was Lindsey’s face. She was so excited about it!
The next day (Saturday) the three of us walked to the dam. It was a hot morning and since we were walking/hiking we all wore our trousers. We started on our journey with some bottles of water, cameras, and a map drawn out by Jane the elective student from Oxford who went back home. We finally made it to the dam after an hour. It was so beautiful and reminded me of the Swiss Family Robinson walk through at Disney World. We climbed up on the dam and then made our way up the river to a waterfall. As we forded the river we manage to completely soak our trousers. So since the walk home was about an hour and it was midday we waved down a boda boda (motorcycle taxi) and somehow all three of us plus our driver rode on it all the way home. We pulled up to Kagando Hospital with one too many riding on the boda boda, all of us girls wearing trousers (which is okay for hiking but still kind of awkward), and to top it off our trousers are wet therefore our driver’s trousers got wet!!! Yes, it was an adventure!
Sunday-
Went to Chapel and heard an awesome talk from Jessica who is apart of the Mother’s Union in Uganda. Then I went to St. Theresa’s Secondary School (High School) to give my testimony. Rev. Gideon and Sarah accompanied me.
Monday-Friday
Spent the week doing in OPD, Lab, and Palliative Care Outreach. It was a rough week, because I saw so many people with cancer. I saw the same woman who has stomach cancer when I went out for Palliative care. She wanted to go to another hospital or get treatment, she wanted to fight it but all they could give her was oral morphine. Then a woman in OPD came in to complain about discharge coming from her nipple. Her breast was enlarged and the doctor said that she most likely has breast cancer and there is nothing that they could do for her because they did not catch it early. I saw a lot of subtle tears from women and children.
Friday night a group of us went to watch the stars at the MTN tower. Then yesterday (Sunday) Sarah and I went to visit the village her house Mom is from. Lillian (Mom who Sarah is living with) grew up just over the mountain in the valley. We walked there to meet her Mom. Her mother made us tea and we ate groundnuts from the garden. We also met about ten other children from the village who all were welcomed in the Mother’s house. We had a great time!
Tomorrow (Tuesday) Lindsey and I leave for Kampala. Sarah is also going to come with us because her cousin lives in Kampala. We will spend a week there having down time before we come home and exploring the capital of course!
I am most excited about 4th of July in Uganda, because we will be spending our Saturday at the U.S. Embassy! How often do you get to go to the U.S. embassy to spend 4th of July? NOT OFTEN! Possibly, NEVER! So while you all are cooking out and setting off fireworks we will be at the Embassy.
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