Monday, June 22, 2009

Dreams

We have to take Malaria medication while here, and it is causing some of the most ridiculous dreams of my life. I've taken Malaria for other countries before, but I have never had this intense of an experience with the dreams side effect. The most random dreams ever! Sometimes I can trace parts of dreams back to something that acutally happened that day or a few days ago, but most of the time they consists of random people and random events. I've been trying to write them down, but there are so many it gets tiring.

We had a pretty busy weekend! On Saturday we spent the whole day at the Kasompe congregation for a youth activity. The youth of both the local congregations came together and the pastor gave a seminar on "How to find your partner." It was a bit challenging for us to contribute anything because there are so many cultural differences in the way they date and the way our culture dates and we didn't want to be offensive to them. It was quite long though...Pastor Jenny went through 12 conditions you should have for your partner and then took questions. Then about 2 we took a break for lunch. Catherine had packed us a lunch but then I guess they had prepared something for us and we were supposed to eat with Jenny as the "guests" but there was a lot of confusion and we didn't really understand what we were supposeed to be doing. Eventually we went back and ate with her and then at about 3 we started the seminar again for more questions. They sing a lot. Lots and lots of choruses they call them. They probably sang at least 15 throughout the day. At about 5 we started to head home. Catherine's family owns a taxi so we call him when we need to go places. He picked us up and we came home and started dinner.

Lots of pasta, we haven't had Nshima that much really, but lots of pasta and vegetables. Catherine makes really really good scones, and she's made those for us a couple times so far.

Then Sunday we went to church, their system is a bit different then ours. An opening prayer, a few choruses usually-the song "There's No One, There's No one Like Jesus" is from here..I think that's what they said. But the other language that it's in in the Sing a New Song hymnal is their language, so I acutally knew that song when they started singing it yesterday! :)
They do Sunday School in the middle of the service (not a bad idea to get people to go to Sunday school...) During Sunday school we went out and worked with the kids..really we just watched..and then played games with them. We went back into the service for announcements and then the sermon.

Yesterday we also had our first training session with community people for the surveys. It went pretty well I think..we had to have a translator but I think they got everything we were saying. We scheduled our first day to go out into the commnity for this Saturday, so we'll see what results we get.

Today we just have an easy day to relax! Maybe try to do a bit more laundry....

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