Feasting

Last night Simon and Dena and their family blessed us with a feast of goat, chicken, sausage, potatoes, rice, and much more as a welcome to Uganda. It was also a thankyou for Connie for supporting their daughter Priscilla; helping her to go to a better school. Boy was it good!

Simon told us we would be eating at 8pm, and then came back about 7:30 and said it would be 8pm Ugandan time (which meant about 20 minutes later) because the rice wasn't quite done yet.

Things in Uganda move quite a bit slower than in the U.S. It is rather refreshing not to have to be on a strict time table. Although for some it can be frustrating. Dr. Jan (from England) some times gets a little annoyed with the pace of things, but I think she has learned to just go with the flow on most things.

Today we continued labeling and alphabetizing the medical records here. I think it is going to take us 2 weeks to finish all of them. We have completed 9 out of about 40 boxes so far. We have to wait for Murethi to get us some more boxes for the files and we have to work around the patients. The boxes are kept in the waiting area and there isn't much room for us to work if the hospice is full. We usually manage to find a place to work, whether on a bed, a table in the kitchen or outside somewhere.

Well, I need to see about tickets to Rwanda so i will sign off now.
Love to all.