A Christmas to Remember!
Christmas Eve started with church in the morning, where my friend George stood up to sing out Micah 6:8 and his friend Charles got up with him to dance. It was so so funny, I wish I could have recorded the dancing on video!! After church we prepared baskets to give to the ‘LC-1” leader… he’s kind of like our governor of the islands. We wanted to make baskets for some of the poorest of families. We filled the baskets with practical items such as beans, rice, posho, tea, sugar, soap and a pineapple. We wanted to keep our identity hidden as to the giving of the basket that is why we gave it to the LC-I leader. Later in the afternoon Karina and Ruthie cooked down in the kitchen making a feast for us and our invited guests :) we invited men and women from the camp that we were in relationship with that didn’t have any family and were alone for the holidays. They made a beef stew with beans and dumplings… the dumplings were so so good!!! Ruthie and I made rice-crispy treats (Karina had brought over marshmallows from the states and they have rice-crispys here) they were a hit! Later I went to go and make paper snowflakes for decorations, I made everyone invited a snow flake with there name on it and then put a scripture verse on it. So everyone came, and at first it seemed a bit awkward because here are all these people who don’t really know each other… so karina and ruthie started singing Christmas carols (I would like to say I tried but you know my voice :) ) and a quarter of the guest spoke English so I grabbed Kompatant, the man I knew (he pilots our boat to the mainland when we have visitors) who speaks about as much English as I speak lugandan and we started dancing around our mudd hutt (with a grass roof)…. Ahh, this got people laughing! We danced and danced all around, it was great… and so to the next Christmas carol the girls sang and a new dancing partner I picked. We had so much fun… it lightened the awkwardness and made a joyful evening! Then, Christmas day, I made banana pancakes to start the day! Note to self: BRING A GRITTLE TO AFRICA. I sat making pancakes for almost 2-hours!!!!!!! After church I went into the camp to wish mama syheedi a Merry Christmas. I ended up sitting with her for 2-3 hours, it was great. She invited me into her hut with her 5-children and we ate rice and beef with our hands. She handed me a spoon because I think she knows we usually use a spoon, but I have come to prefer to eat with my hands… its almost easier, especially when you have a piece of meat with fat around it, it is much easier to eat the meat and go around the fat. With a fork and knife you usually end up eating a bit of the fat. So lets do it, lets go back to eating with out a fork and a knife!! It really is much easier! I came back up to ywam and everyone was just relaxing, it was wonderful… just like Christmas at home where everyone is just laying around! It was nearing 7pm and nobody had cooked dinner!!! Jess and Karina went down to cook only to find the chicken I had been given as a gift earlier had almost pecked the chicken jess had been given earlier, to death!!! We had to eat Jess’ chicken that night! But all we had was a dull knife! So as I was on the phone with my great friend ‘oh-sama-Ben’ … Bennie Shu :) I turned around only to find Karina sawing at this poor chickens neck :( it was so sad… after I got off the phone I went with a flashlight (remember it gets dark at 7pm here and there is no electricity) to my chicken and put the spotlight on him and asked him…’how do you feel about almost taking another man’s life tonight’ only to hear a small chuckle in the background, followed by my friend Karina, who had Hope’s voice (my sister) for a split second, as she said… ‘Amanda’…. In a stern voice… I didn’t know what I did!!! Later I realized the boy Tony who had given jess the chicken was in the kitchen with us and he would have felt extremely bad had he known his gift was almost pecked to death! I get in trouble in the
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