Adventures, Adventures...

Yesterday, Febuary 7th, we went to Kampala. There were five of us girls and we went out for a night on the townJ. We went to dinner on Emily’s mom because she won an award at school and it was a celebration! It was so good too! I am eating like a piggy and probably will not lose weight while being here. I am going to start exercising more though! Build the muscles! :) Anyway, we went in a Matatu which is just a van taxi and real cheap, but they drive crazy! Oh my, I could never drive here. There are no rules and everyone just does whatever they want. I would be so ticked off at the people that I wouldn’t get anywhere! Ha. The taxi tried to kick us off, probably closer to our destination, but we were persistent and stayed on until we were around something familiar. We ended up asking for directions, but eventually got there! I got some mango juice that wasn’t very good and was expensive! (In reality it was only $1.75, but here that is wicked expensive.) Then we got a private hire to take us to Sam’s restaurant, which was amazing!! We also stumbled upon this craft market which was awesome. I love shopping here! Good thing it is cheap here! I had fish, carrots, and potatoes! It was very healthy and delicious. Then I had apple pie and ice cream :D. It was so delicish, I even ate the crust and I am not a crust person. Most proabably wouldn’t have liked it but because it is such a treat here I was in very much like with it! We kind of vegged out for a little bit then went to the craft market. Kristen was proud of me because I only bought five pairs of earrings and three banana leaf pictures! And they were all gifts, kinda. We had a heck of a time getting a matatu back to Mukono. Some Ugandans think that because we are white that we do not know anything, but all you need to do is act like you know what you are doing and they won’t take you for a fool. My dad would be proud of me :D. I love the shopping here and how cheap I can get things. I am starting to develop a backbone! I am not guillable or naïve as much as I use to be! It was a good day, but even at the end I felt like an outsider. At first I was mad because I thought it was the girls fault, but I do not think that now. I know it is God telling me to get use to feeling alone in this world when it comes to people. I need to become content with being the outsider. That is what God told me. I have become more introverted since being here. I need my alone time and I crave it because I can’t be around people all the time. It is weird, but another thing that God is doing in my life. I give Him the praise for everything!
Emily and I went to this fellowship on Thurday for our dorm. It was great until the speaker. He was talking about worship and he had great things to say about worship, but then he spoke about the song, Blessed be thename of the Lord, and the verse where it says ‘He gives and takes away’, the speaker said he would not say that verse again because God only gives and does not take. I was like what??? Emily and I talked about it and that is in the Bible, He gives and takes away, and we were like ummm, yeah…wrong statement to say. That song is very dear to my heart because the day that my grandpa passed away, it played in chapel and it was God just reassuring me about that situation.
Anyway, probably the hardest and greatest week so far! I am sure there are more to come and I welcome them. God is here and with me and everywhere in between! I love you all!