So, I’ve been home for about 2 months, but really haven’t written anything about my last three months on the race. Well, those last three months were hard, but they were also some of my favorite. So here are some pictures to summarize those three months in Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya.
Rwanda
This month started with a debrief and new teams. My team stayed in capital city of Kigali and taught school as well as preaching every night in the local church.
The African Sunset. This was the first african sunset that I saw at month 8 debrief in Kigali, Rwanda.
New continent = New Team. Meet Team Kwitanga!
Walks home from kindergarten were never lonely
Team Kwitanga, first day of school picture
Hand washing before snack time
Recess
Lesson time. Worksheets are handwritten by the teacher for the students to take home, so for classwork each student comes to the board one by one to do work and get help from the teacher.
The kindergarten class that I helped teach along with my teammate Grace.
This is the sweet woman who made my dress for me in about an hour and half.
Uganda
This month our ministry was split into two different things. The first part of the week we rolled paper beads and made jewelry with teen moms so that they had a way to support themselves and their kids. Then the second part of the week we did a curriculum called “Farming God’s Way” that taught sustainable agriculture to farmers in the community.
Biofuel system that uses cow manure to make methanol and capture that gas and use that cook with.
Susan is showing us how she makes butter
Baby Remembrance, his mom was one of our teen moms that came and rolled beads to make necklaces.
Our host for the month, and my Ugandan “parents” Pastor Enoch and Constance.
There were a lot of cows this month. It was great!
This is the actual way that we bought the chicken that we ate for supper. AKA not the way you buy it at Publix.
An example of a paper bead that makes up a necklace
How many people can you fit on a Boda Boda? There have been more…
This is Andrew. I met him during my weekend in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. He paints on denim or old couch fabric, and has a shop on the side of the road. And I bought these paintings from him so I have them to remember him and Uganda by forever.
Kenya
This month, my team worked with YWAM in Athi River and did door to door evangelism, open air crusades, and a kids camp.
When I got to Kenya, it looked like the lion king. Everything looked like I had always been told Africa was supposed to look like. If you look closely at this picture you can even see a zebra.
One of our jobs on the base was to chop firewood so that we would have fuel for the fire that was used to cook over
As seen in Nairobi Kenya
We lived in a village for a week which meant we finally got to use our tents, for a week in month 11!
These cows walked through our open air crusade every night
Face painting at Kids camp. We did kids camp during election week so that we didn’t leave our compound and the kids came to our compound.
Its still surreal that the race is over, and some days I have trouble believing that it really happened. The World Race has come to a close and I am in the midst of navigating re-entry.
