Sorry Sorry Sorry

I have been saying this a bit in the limited number of posts I have done in the last while.  But I am sorry for the lack of posts.  We have been having trouble with power and internet, then Kathryn & I were away in Kampala.  But things seem to be better now.  So I will go back in time to try and remember what was happening.

 I’ll start with Sunday 18th November.  Today was Kathryn’s birthday and I was not able to get her a great present here in Kabale but arranged for Quinton’s parents to bring a box of Roses from Australia.  Also Erica had saved me also and bought her a nice African necklace and bracelet set.  We went out to Edirisa for dinner to celebrate and Pauline (Q’s mum) had made a nice cake.  So we stayed and had coffee and cake.  Kathryn’s parents had sent a box over so that it would be here for Kathryn’s birthday, but unfortunately that is caught up in customs for some reason.  Good old Uganda comes to rain on the parade yet again.

 On Monday 19th November I popped into the drop-in centre, I am feeling very strongly about supporting this more and more in the future.  I will post my thoughts about this in the near future when I get some time on the internet.  Here is a photo of one of the boys who I get on really well with, Godwin:

And here is one of the staff members, Joshua:

Tuesday 20th November, the Siddans went to the lake for the day and I have no idea what we did, Wednesday was the drop-in centre for me again; then Thursday the girls went to the ladies meeting at Akanyijuka.  I tagged along to play with the children.  When I got there however Elizabeth, one of the elder girls thought it would be good to organise the rest to play class and church, and wanted me to play also.  This was ok, except I had absolutely no idea what was going on apart from when they were being told to sit down.

Friday 23rd November; Quinton’s parents were only here a few more days so we went out for lunch at Little Ritz in Africa.  Kathryn was not at school today as there were two public holidays called for CHOGM. 

Saturday was a busy day, starting as usual with drums, then I got the car serviced as we were heading to Kampala to drop off Quinton’s parents tomorrow.  Straight after this I had another drum lesson and then  it was straight to Akanyijuka for Saturday School.  I was then rushing back to get the rest to head down to Akanyijuka again so that Quinton’s parents could have one last visit with the children.  Unfortunately I was delayed by Pam Ward, who was lucky to run into me as she had a lot of running around in town to do and then had to pick up a child from the Lift Up project who was in hospital.  I thought it was strange that she was a little frantic about how she was going to do everything, until we went to pick up Joan from the hospital and had to take not only Joan and her clothes, but a mattress etc that she needed to bring herself.  This worked out ok as Henry and Harriett had come to visit Paul and Pauline and were still there when I arrived. 

After the Manzis left we went down to Akanyijuka for a last visit and it was a great time for all.  The children and Matrons were happy to pose for family photos and they sang songs and danced.  Not quite Watoto standard, but it was fantastic for having nothing prepared or planned, the children were parading around and having a blast.  Because it was Quinton’s birthday tomorrow and his parents were leaving in the morning we headed out for dinner straight afterwards.  Then when we got home we had a cake and coffee, Pauline had made a lamington cake, which was great, not only because it tasted good, but because it reminded me of home a little.