MUKONO THURSDAY FEBRUARY 21st
Deane has headed off to Luwero today – exciting day, the roading contractor has agreed to do the driveway into the house sites for SOS Ministries.
Sam and Zach have headed off to Mukono hospital with Mark (the young man whose house was extended by the C@R (now RBC) missions team. He has casts on both his legs at the moment to try and straighten them and get the nerves working so that eventually he may walk) to have the casts replastered. Zach has just arrived home white, pale and feeling real sick, he nearly fainted at the hospital – he said there were kids there with sores oozing with puss and then the smell when they started cutting away the plasters on Marks legs was for him just horrific!
Anyway I said to him, I am proud of him for going (even though it was reluctantly) and it is just SO good for him and Sam to take themselves out of their own little comfortable world and to see these things and how people live and what people in Uganda have to put up with.
We are hoping to go down to the local hotel later for a swim.
MUKONO WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 20th
Got to drive into Mukono – my first time in a vehicle drivers’ seat – navigating through the people, boda bodas, trucks, cyclists, taxi vans and animals!!! Lucky tho there was only ¼ of the normal traffic as is usual, Zach thought maybe everyone had heard I was coming to town and they all stayed home!!!
We went down to the fruit and vege markets and there was this group of people dancing, playing bongo drums and singing, I asked Miriam (our normal vege/fruit seller) what was going on. She said they were announcing that there was a be a “Circumcision Ceremony and they were just letting everyone know. I asked Danielle and apparently it is for 12 or 13 year old boys, they have it done in front of the WHOLE village, without antiseptic or local injection and if they cry they are considered NOT A MAN!!!! OUCH was Zachs reaction!!
Since we have arrived our brand new gas oven has not been working properly, even tho we have had the repairman here already and so it is always a hassle on a Wednesday when I cook for the entire SOS ministry team members, normally around 20 of us. It means that someone has to sit holding the oven gas button in so that the food cooks!!!
