Adventures in Africa: And on the 7th day they rested...

7/11

Today I got up to go to church. Of course, it started 1 1/2 late and thus ran about 2 hours longer than anticipated. This clearly was a not a typical Lutheran service where the congregation starts their watches as they sit down, making sure that the sermon does not last more than 10 minutes, and then finishes it off with 1 to 2 hours of coffee drinking and doughnut eating! We sang for 45 minutes in the beginning. We sung a lot of American/English church songs and some in Luganda as well. There were three preachers from Kampala who came and told stories. One having to do with him levitating some woman and then she could all of a sudden conceive. I don’t know...all 4 of us girls just looked at each other like, “hmm mm yeah right...” But other than that it was quite fun. After we got some African tea, similar to Chai which was DELISH. I came back to meet Polly for lunch. Jamie joined and we spent the afternoon at the pool. It was a much needed relaxing day. We headed to Betty’s house to pick up our laundry. She’s local woman with two daughters that live with her. Salima-15 years old and Shamilla-16 years old. They are so welcoming and so nice. They come up and kiss you on the neck. Salima told me that her sponsor’s name was Lindsay so she would remember and love me forever. Aw :) After, we headed to Two Friends, an outdoor bar/restaurant, for pizza, some vino, and of course the World Cup!! Go Spain!