So here we are I am in month 11 of the Race, CRAZINESS! I just wanted to let you all know what I have been doing and who i am serving alongside this month!
Where Are We Staying?
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My team (Cheetah Girls) and I are working with two other teams, Team Light Sabers and Team Sisters with a British non-profit organization called LightForce in the city of Lira, Uganda. (This place is also a Safari Lodge and I have the opportunity to go on a safari NEXT WEEK!)
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The campus we are living on is actually a lodge with huts with bunk beds. About 7 people to a room. All three teams are mixed up for rooming which has been so cool.
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At night, you can see the stars glowing and the beautiful Milky Way like I have never been able to see it before!
Ministry Set-Up:
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Amongst the three teams we are spread out doing either manual labor, teaching and some days we can go into the community to visit people.
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Our days this month are long, tiring, full of hard work but so sweet! We usually start our work at 8:30AM and get done by 5PM with an hour break for lunch at 1PM.
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Many of us have been doing a lot of manual labor, including but not limited to:
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From moving things out of a large, dusty warehouse, that once had mice and cockroaches running around (we killed a lot of them)
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Digging up holes to put posts in for a goat pen
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Moving stones around the compound
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Laying out corn kernels to dry out in the sun
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Harvesting corn in the fields.
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We’ve also have been give opportunities to go out to the community and evangelize and other things including…
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Checking students eyes sight.
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We had the opportunity to visit people in the community and also go to a bar and preach while some of the men in the community sat around and drank alcohol.
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We’ve had and currently still do have visitors from the U.K doing ministry with us, which has been so cool! George our host, founded a church in the U.K which many of them attend. He also founded the current organization we are working with.
What am I eating:
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Breakfast is light with a boiled egg, instant coffee or tea and some type of bread, either plain bread, or a yummy donut-like bread or our favorite chapati.
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Lunch is vegetarian style and usually includes a maize-flour dish called pojo, squash, stewed beans, and cooked kale (picked straight from their garden) with a side of sliced pineapple, avocado and/or cucumber.
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Dinner rice or posho or noodles, stewed goat meat, and a side of cooked veggies which may be green beans, kale, or cabbage. Sometimes they even throw in potatoes.
