camping

surprise! its me! your long lost blogger girl.

RA and i had to make a hasty trip to civilization to pick up some items we need for living in the village. let me paint you a picture:

CAMPING

the house we stay in is rustic, with wonderful views, nature lovers would love the nightly visitors we have and those who love stars would be in paradise.

there is no power and there is no water. RA and i have been sore all week as we are developing the new muscles needed for carrying jerry cans of water down the mountain to our home. let me tell you, i am so out of shape. everything hurts right now! (previously RA collected rain water, but it has been DRY)

life in Kishanje is hard. our diet consists of rice, beans, peas,maize flour and dodo- a green plant we found and have figured out how to cook. it is kind of nice walking outside, down the various paths, and figuring out what plants we can and cant eat. some we definitely cant eat. any fruits or other veggies we want to eat we have to carry in from Kabale town. limits our diet for sure.

the best thing about being in kishanje is the peace i feel and the absolute joy i have when being with the kids. there are so many new names floating around in my head right now.

the hardest thing about being there is .... spiders.... i have always struggled with fearing spiders and for some reason, in kishanje, they LOVE me. RA says she never saw spiders till i moved in. Daddy long legs have set up camp in our outside squatty potty, which i have almost adjusted to - we have an agreement. i wont smoke them out with fire if they stay on the wall and dont crawl towards me. the ones that i am fighting now are these radioactive experiment looking ugly blackish huge spiders that seem to love my room, they enjoy hanging out on my bed, and chillin in my clothes. PRAISE GOD for RA who doesnt fear them. She valiantly chases them away. As i dont fear RATS, our other nightly visitors, and she does, I chase them. A good team!

We also share our home with a few families of birds. they are nice but have a tendency to shed feathers on my bed which i dont really like.... and they drink our water out of the basin we have kept it in.... so we have to work that out.

To get to town RA and i got up early thursday am, hiked down the "precipce of death mountain trails" and over the "rivers of wettness" to reach lake bunyoni. our good friend W joined us and the three of us sang our way over the mountain, we were joined by two young girls who sang with us.

reaching the docks RA called a boat over and we crossed the massive lake safely. two "taxi" rides later we reached mbarara - 8 hrs later!

we had to shop for cooking pans and plates and other household goods.... tomorrow we journey back and do the whole trip in reverse.

many other adventures to share with you all, hopefully i can update again in a few weeks.

thanks for prayers!! please keep praying. love you all.