True Wedding proposal!!!
…so I was walking down to the beach front to get onto the boat to head to the mainland. I was walking with Olive, my lingira mom! A man I had never met stopped her, and they were speaking lugandan. I didn’t have a clue what was happening except the fact that Olive kept pointing to me. So as we left him I asked Olive what just happened? She laughed and said, he was asking permission from me to take your hand in marriage! I love Africa, it just makes me laugh… a man I have never met, asks me to marry him… go figure?! Lol….
So my friend Joy… her wedding was scheduled yesterday… we got to Tororo around 11:30 am, the wedding was to be at 12:00pm, then it was delayed to 2pm… it was coming to 4pm and still no wedding or sign of the bride or groom…. A friend with me got a text-message on his phone from Joy, stating to pray because she didn’t know what was going on… so we did…. Than we found out that her father was refusing her to marry until she brought/ or her husband to be brought 3 million shillings …. About $1600…(just part of the bride price and only part of the high demands her father was making) they didn’t have that money… so now because it was coming to 5pm and I was with a crew of people from the islands that had to get back that night, we had to leave. I still don’t know if the wedding happened or not… I can’t imagine how Joy must have felt on her wedding day…
Girls Night out!! … I took jess to Bugali falls to the greatest restaurant this side of the world (well at least that I have found so far!) and it was expensive to Ugandan standards, but cheap to U.S. standards… $7/plate). The best part is taking the motorbike to bugali falls and the excitement of the speedy pace and the huge hills to the falls… I think I am going to miss motorcycles when I come home! Maybe my husband will have to drive one when I get married someday! Well I can’t really say the motorbike was the best part… everything was excellent… the beauty of bugali falls, the steak and chicken dinner that we both got… mashed potatoes, fresh veggies!!! mmmm!!! Our wine glasses filled with water!! Love it! (ywam does not allow us to have any alcohol in Uganda, Christians in Uganda are forbidden to even have a glass… its okay though, I liked dreaming about my red wine!) we originally had yellow roses on our table, until I snuck over to another table and replaced our yellow roses with red ones! To top the dinner off we enjoyed this banana fry-cake with ice cream and chocolate sauce. Sooo soo good! We raced home and watched Ocean 11… and for the first time in history, it was jess who fell asleep and I stayed up and watched the entire movie!!! good movie, but I hated that they made two bad ‘guys’ and so I ended up cheering for a bad guy at the end! It was so nice to be able to go out and enjoy ourselves!
Secondary School update: the good news…. The Board of Governors (BOG) for the secondary school was completely set now, and we had our first meeting where decisions were made as a group (not one man/women making solo decisions) It was so good to see the collaboration of the minds! Robert Wafula is named the chairman of the BOG, he really understands the importance of community involvement and communication amongst all stakeholders… so I think He is just the perfect man for the job. We called the community and parents of students for a P.T.A. meeting and elected the PTA board… another great feat! We have meetings and celebrations set for the future, so I am very excited about those things! As for the teachers we set a mission statement for the school and set up the rules and regulations for the student body… along with putting in place teachers roles and responsibilities… along with setting up the terms of service for teachers…. The bad news… so I calculated some numbers concerning the secondary school… and the number of students we have (even if they were all paying) does not even come close to paying the high cost to run our school! For example we currently have around 52 students and to run the school just on the current budget we would need 272 students! Obviously with more students come more costs… so we just need wisdom for the leadership…. I shared a detailed report with the leaders at the last BOG meeting. So this is what we are looking at
…Looking for school sponsors (whether it be individuals, businesses, or churches)
…about $2200 to come in per month to have a fully functioning school
We had our second child sponsorship meeting where we took minutes… this meeting was focused on prayer… we got some good scriptures… email me if you want to see the minutes...we now have 6 children receiving sponsorship.
Clumsy or what??!! …its almost a month ago, I think I cracked my foot so hard on a rock that I broke or fractured a small bone in my left foot… it hurt for weeks, and my pinky toe is still fatter than the other one and at times it still hurts. Then just this week I was running down on a dirt path and in a blink of an eye, I was flat on the ground and my knees all scrapped up…I had tripped on a tiny tree stump! I think I need to go to training camp for runners!
I hope all is well with each of you, I love you and miss you! Can you believe I am coming on 5-months in Africa! I can’t… I still can’t believe I am in Africa and it is October coming to November… I am only supposed to be here in the summer months :)
Loving you,
mandy
So my friend Joy… her wedding was scheduled yesterday… we got to Tororo around 11:30 am, the wedding was to be at 12:00pm, then it was delayed to 2pm… it was coming to 4pm and still no wedding or sign of the bride or groom…. A friend with me got a text-message on his phone from Joy, stating to pray because she didn’t know what was going on… so we did…. Than we found out that her father was refusing her to marry until she brought/ or her husband to be brought 3 million shillings …. About $1600…(just part of the bride price and only part of the high demands her father was making) they didn’t have that money… so now because it was coming to 5pm and I was with a crew of people from the islands that had to get back that night, we had to leave. I still don’t know if the wedding happened or not… I can’t imagine how Joy must have felt on her wedding day…
Girls Night out!! … I took jess to Bugali falls to the greatest restaurant this side of the world (well at least that I have found so far!) and it was expensive to Ugandan standards, but cheap to U.S. standards… $7/plate). The best part is taking the motorbike to bugali falls and the excitement of the speedy pace and the huge hills to the falls… I think I am going to miss motorcycles when I come home! Maybe my husband will have to drive one when I get married someday! Well I can’t really say the motorbike was the best part… everything was excellent… the beauty of bugali falls, the steak and chicken dinner that we both got… mashed potatoes, fresh veggies!!! mmmm!!! Our wine glasses filled with water!! Love it! (ywam does not allow us to have any alcohol in Uganda, Christians in Uganda are forbidden to even have a glass… its okay though, I liked dreaming about my red wine!) we originally had yellow roses on our table, until I snuck over to another table and replaced our yellow roses with red ones! To top the dinner off we enjoyed this banana fry-cake with ice cream and chocolate sauce. Sooo soo good! We raced home and watched Ocean 11… and for the first time in history, it was jess who fell asleep and I stayed up and watched the entire movie!!! good movie, but I hated that they made two bad ‘guys’ and so I ended up cheering for a bad guy at the end! It was so nice to be able to go out and enjoy ourselves!
Secondary School update: the good news…. The Board of Governors (BOG) for the secondary school was completely set now, and we had our first meeting where decisions were made as a group (not one man/women making solo decisions) It was so good to see the collaboration of the minds! Robert Wafula is named the chairman of the BOG, he really understands the importance of community involvement and communication amongst all stakeholders… so I think He is just the perfect man for the job. We called the community and parents of students for a P.T.A. meeting and elected the PTA board… another great feat! We have meetings and celebrations set for the future, so I am very excited about those things! As for the teachers we set a mission statement for the school and set up the rules and regulations for the student body… along with putting in place teachers roles and responsibilities… along with setting up the terms of service for teachers…. The bad news… so I calculated some numbers concerning the secondary school… and the number of students we have (even if they were all paying) does not even come close to paying the high cost to run our school! For example we currently have around 52 students and to run the school just on the current budget we would need 272 students! Obviously with more students come more costs… so we just need wisdom for the leadership…. I shared a detailed report with the leaders at the last BOG meeting. So this is what we are looking at
…Looking for school sponsors (whether it be individuals, businesses, or churches)
…about $2200 to come in per month to have a fully functioning school
We had our second child sponsorship meeting where we took minutes… this meeting was focused on prayer… we got some good scriptures… email me if you want to see the minutes...we now have 6 children receiving sponsorship.
Clumsy or what??!! …its almost a month ago, I think I cracked my foot so hard on a rock that I broke or fractured a small bone in my left foot… it hurt for weeks, and my pinky toe is still fatter than the other one and at times it still hurts. Then just this week I was running down on a dirt path and in a blink of an eye, I was flat on the ground and my knees all scrapped up…I had tripped on a tiny tree stump! I think I need to go to training camp for runners!
I hope all is well with each of you, I love you and miss you! Can you believe I am coming on 5-months in Africa! I can’t… I still can’t believe I am in Africa and it is October coming to November… I am only supposed to be here in the summer months :)
Loving you,
mandy
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