The Flow of Things

     Well it has been a while since the last update. In that time it seems like much has changed and like little has changed. That is just how it is here, the more things change then the more that they stay the same. That is just the flow of things here in a country where time seems to standstill and race ahead at the same time.

     Considering that the last update was a while back there is a fair amount to write about. I will start though with the thing that over arches this whole time frame. That would be a wonderful thing know as culture shock. It doesn't matter who you are, if you go live in another culture for any amount of time you will experience it. For me it seems to strike mainly in two forms, either to fight against it or to just hide away from it. Really it isn't caused by anyone thing but rather is the result of a thousand tiny things. Most of the time I can't even really put a finger on what is causing it, but it is still there. One of the joys of going to another culture, I guess.

     On to more cheerful things though, things at ABIDE have been going pretty good. A few weeks back made my first trip down to Kabale, and got to spend the day with the guys down there. We did a home visitation as well, it was to Samuel's house. (He is one of the students at the Mbarara house). As always seems to happen there were a few mishaps, and technical difficulties but over all the weekend was good. It did help that we were fed fairly well all weekend, though over the course of the weekend I drank more passion fruit juice then I ever before. It was good though and it is hard to beat fresh made juice, the stuff in the containers in stores just don't taste quite the same. 

     To more recent things though, this past friday was a Ugandan national holiday. Normally there is no school that day, so over at ABIDE we had a day off from classes so we went and had some fun. There is a "waterfall" (called that but it is more of a cataract), I enjoyed getting a chance to do a little fishing. After that most of us deciding on swimming, and that ultimately turned into jumping into the current and floating down stream. (It was about waist deep so there was little chance of hitting any rocks on the bottom).

     Well this has kinda been a bit of a rambling post, If yall have any questions about any of it just shoot me an email at beardedmissions@gmail.com

     Be looking for future updates about my Kampala trip, and as well for the joint mission trip that ABIDE has coming up. (It will be the Mbarara and the Kabale house working together on this trip).