Spicing Up the Daily Living!

Most of my blogs normally come after a weekend when a dramatic adventure occurred, which means that you miss out on all the little adventures that happen in between just in my daily life. They are just as fun and exciting as my weekends, they just come in smaller packages and are intermittent. So let me impart to you a few of those moments of spice in my everyday :)

I realized I never really gave much of an explanation as to my American roommate, Stephanie, that I live with at my home stay. She's a fun girl and the first night we spent there we found out we had matching nightgowns...it was obviously meant to be. I play 'knight in shining armor' for her sometimes when the local creatures pay a visit to our room! She is definitely a morning person and she leaves before me every morning to go run at school. I'm not sure how she does it! This quote pretty much describes her personality, "The top of this pineapple would make a great Barbie tree!" Haha, we laugh about that stuff a lot together and it's nice to have another American around who understands all your sayings and jokes!

There is a tradition here that on your birthday your friends will drench you with water and normally in a surprising manner so you just spend the whole day soaked because if you change they do it again. Elisha had his birthday and after Rita told me about it I told him that I had a birthday surprise for him and when he rounded the corner to see what was up I dumped my nalgene on him! Hahaha, everyone laughed super hard and then Elisha came back in still dripping and looked at me and said, "well, I just can't wait for that special day in November to come now" as he looked at me with a knowing grin :s I'm wearing my raincoat that whole day I think!

I took litte Enoch with me into town one day to go to the supermarket and let me tell you, I didn't think I could get any more inconspicuous than just being white, but apparently if you walk around with a little Ugandan baby you're even more interesting!!! I was asked if he was my baby about 12 times so I had to explain that he was my host brother, which lengthened our outing considerably. I was also asked if he was my pregnancy, if I adopted him, and even if I had stolen him! It was quite entertaining!

I introduced the concept of s'mores to my family and my goodness were they a hit! Henry had to declare a two s'more limit in our household a night so we didn't destroy them that night! It was so fun to show them how to cook them and put them together and then see all the marshmallow stick to their cheeks and fingers. Enoch was a mess :)

Last Thursday I spent the night at Kurty's home and when we got their we found that the small rotary club meeting that was being hosted at her home was pretty much a full out party! Including dancing!! We got to help prepare some of the food and then got to serve to all of the members. I love hanging out with the different family members of Kurty's. On of my favorite moments was dancing with her brother, Simon, and sister, Stella. I am learning some new dance moves so watch out Minnesota!

Well, there are many more small instances I could include...shadow boxing with Elisha, getting locked into the shower room by Enoch, traveling to town for chips and chaps, and other such grand moments :) Maybe they'll show up at a later date!

I love and miss you all a lot this week!! Other weeks I rarely think of you at all! Just kidding, but this week has felt the strongest it's ever been. Don't worry I only almost shed a tear and it'll probably be gone by next week :)

Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord! Ephesians 5:19