Friday afternoon, May 23

I don't think I have much time but just in case, I'm starting a note of random stuff again just so I don't forget this stuff.

This afternoon has been a lot of fun. I spent the morning writing that earlier message and then helping Irene unwrap all her purchases from yesterday and chatting with Bobby and Ben while DJ was in another meeting. Then we went to the Bogles house to visit with our good friend Ronald Bwana and his son Alex and Zach's former dog, Libby, who shed all over me. Ronald told us about his chicken project. He was part of a group that made a group proposal to us last year. We didn't loan them the money. As a matter of fact, DJ basically told them that it wasn't a good idea for the group to make one loan for one thing like chickens--literally not putting all your eggs in one basket. Well, they did anyway. As a group, they bought some of the local chickens to raise. They each had a particular job to do and assignment. I don't remember them all but one of them was supposed to be in charge of the chicken's health. But the project failed because one chicken got sick and then they all did and their whole project was wiped out because as Ronald said, one of them was lazy and didn't do the job. He said they'd learned their lesson and so now he's raising chickens with Spencer Bogle.

Ok, gotta go, so the rest of the afternoon we spent on the banks of the Nile at the Ginger Restaurant drinking sweet tea with ice cubes in it! I've never had that in Uganda. We met some of the missionaries there to visit about what we're doing. Bobby and Candice, Ben Langford, Spencer and Emily Bogle. It was great fun, incredibly relaxing and we all hated to leave but we had plans already.

now, random....

ugandans end most words with an extra ee or ah: bye-ee, zach-ah, gerald-ee

Last week at Jinja church, when we were singing about the 20th verse of "I'll be somewhere working for my Lord," I leaned up to Bobby and Candice and told them that I needed the words to change and that I'm really rather it went like this.... "I'll be somewhehyah relaxing, I'll be somewheyhah relaxing, I'll be somewhehyah relaxing for my Lord, yes for my Lord...."