Archive for April, 2007
prime time
Wow. We’ve just spent a weekend in Kampala, the Ugandan capital. It was strangely awesome.
On Friday we said our farewells to the guys in Jinja. It was a wonderful fortnight there with friendships made quickly and too many experiences to recount. We learnt how to greet and how to wash clothes by hand, how to […]
Posted: April 23rd, 2007 under outreach.
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Princess
My very good friend, Princess G, has just started keeping a blog. She didn’t tell me about it - which is fair enough as I completely forgot to wish her a happy birthday at the end of last month. Until now. So…. Happy belated birthday Princess.
On a different note, we are just […]
Posted: April 20th, 2007 under musings, outreach.
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ants, rafting and church services
ants
Army ants are organised little things. They build bridges out of themselves and they have a heck of a bite. On Friday a colony of ants moved from one place on the base here to another. Hundreds of thousands of ants formed a massive convoy that ran across the base for several […]
Posted: April 19th, 2007 under life, musings, outreach.
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Easter dawn
I got up for 6am again yesterday morning to go to the dawn service on the base we are staying at. It was pretty dark when we pitched up but it was totally worth it. The service was nice and informal - on plastic chairs in the middle of the field facing in the direction […]
Posted: April 9th, 2007 under media village, outreach.
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observations
I’ve now been in Uganda for a couple of days. It’s hot, the air is acrid, the satellite dishes point straight up, the sun is directly above you at midday and the roads are chaos. Welcome to the real Africa.
I’m loving it so far. We are staying at the YWAM Hopeland base in Jinja, have […]
Posted: April 7th, 2007 under media village.
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