This Week in Africa

This Week in Africa

Nothing too exciting this week. This is the first chance i've had to write for a while. i've been in the bush for the last few days :) Last week We started on building this school class room. It's been fun learning how to lay bricks and lay a foundation. Definitely hard work, even for a little class room.
This weekend we went up north in a place called Gulu that is near the Sudan border and taught a couple of business classes. Gulu is where the story of Invisible Children happened. There are still some threats from the LRA, but it is mostly contained. Sunday we went to church at a little branch that was surprisingly big. It's been open for 4 months and looks like it is doing well. Church was only two hours... who knows maybe they'll start implementing that idea everywhere. Sunday afternoon we went to the hospital where all the kids slept so they could hide from being abducted by the LRA. I recently watched the movie and it's pretty horrible what they had to live through. It seems that the town is adjusting pretty well and thriving. Sunday night we went to this tiny village with these born again pastors and they went around healing people.... um... it was interesting... on the bus ride back it was interesting to hear all there stories around the world... i don't really know what to think about them, but they seemed really sincere....
Today we are traveling back to Lugazi and went on the bumpiest bus ride ever and i think my spinal chord has snapped. We're in the capital Kampala at the one really nice shopping center called garden city. It was the first time i really ate in the last three days, because i hated the food in gulu. It was soooo good. I finished my book called Common wealth... if any one wants to hear what all these NGOs and save the world types have to say that's a pretty good representation of what they are saying. ... it's pretty convincing hearing the author talk about population control and needed government spending on roads and such when you are on a bus ride from gulu to kampala.... he talked a lot about africa so i could take a pretty good stance on his arguments.