I will be back.

Sorry I didn’t post yesterday. We didn’t get home from our appreciation dinner until late. Yesterday we visited the villages Subbi and Burrah. Our first stop of the day was Subbi.  I really liked Subbi! There are currently around 1,800 kids living in the village. Here’s some math for you, there are 8 kids per household and around 1,800 kids which makes 225 homes.  To start off the Subbi village tour we took a tour of where they weld and build all of the furniture that Watoto needs. It was pretty neat because after high school some kids would go to vocational school and learn how to be a welder or carpenter and then automatically have a job working there. Like I said  they make the majority of the furniture needed at Watoto, like bed frames, cribs, school desk. Some of the team members met their sponsor child while is Subbi, but since I am not sponsoring anyone, not yet anyways, I got to play with the older toddlers at the baby home. I know last time I posted I mentioned that I had found a boyfriend but I found another one yesterday, Rockman.  He had the cutest smile! He made you work for them, but man were they worth it!  He had two little front teeth that would peek out whenever he smiled. I don’t know if you can tell but I feel in love with it.  One of the funniest moments of the day, more for spectators than myself, was when the toddlers tortured me. No words can really explain this event, I’ll try and post a video on Facebook for farther explanation. After Megan and Carla got done visiting with their sponsor child we said goodbye to the Subbi babies and loaded back up in the bus. We finished off visiting Subbi with a tour of the goat and corn plantation. By this point my Chacos had broke so I was stuck going barefoot, needless to say I passed on the tour of the goat plantation. After that we made the 30 minute drive to Burrah. From the moment we pulled up I loved Burrah! Some other members of the team met their sponsor children there but the rest of us were free to roam the village. There were children playing in the area where we parked so we were immediately greeted with several little voices shouting “mzungu, mzungu!!” I became friends with two boys who grabbed my hands and drug me to their home. I was greeted there by their three sisters Angel, Rachel and Sraah, as she later wrote for me. They were all younger children, the oldest being maybe 7. We played ring around the rosey and took pictures with my phone. After we had tired ourselves out we sat down in the grass and the kids used me as a jungle gym. Rachel and Angel immediately started playing with “mzungu hair.” They quickly learned that my hair wouldn’t do the same things as theirs, so after trying to twist it like their own they decided to tie it in knots. I could tell by the way Angel started karate chopping the hair Rachel was playing with that she wasn’t happy with the way it looked. So in the end I got two braids tied together in the back, I wore it proudly for the rest of the day. Half way through my hair make over the children’s mother, Ester came out. Earlier she had sent one of the boys out with a bottle of water and a mat for the mzungu to sit on.  We talked, well we attempted to talk. We had to get a piece of paper and a pen to write down what we were trying to say so the other could fully understand it. When Harry came to tell me it was time to leave I was so sad. I could have stayed there forever! I realized on the way back to the guest house that Uganda had started to feel like home to me and that I loved these red dirt roads and having children yell “mzungu” whenever they saw me. I feel at peace leaving here because I know that I’ll be back! Sorry I’m not able to write about what we did today, it was a slow day of packing and a trip to the mall. We leave for the airport in 13 minutes! Let the plane rides begin!! Please pray for safe and smooth traveling!

See you soon,
Allie