How does one celebrate new years in the bush of Uganda? Well here’s how my day played out...
- Hand washing clothes.
- Trip to the market
- Sweaty bike ride back home
- Impali ants invading our house again! (see post the Ants go marching... for more on what this is like)
- Cow crisis at RMS.
- Mango daiquiris and fajitas!!
- A round of Apples to Apples with great quotes like “I wasted ‘being in love’ on you” -Josh to Pamela... she didn’t pick his card
- A round of Cranium with more great quotes like, “I don’t know if I’m good at it, but I’ll do almost anything”- Jess
- Finally getting enough internet to download some of the top 40 songs from America... thank you Pamela!
- Going out on our front porch with our little battery radio listening to the voice of Bundibugyo (one of 2 stations we get on the FM dial) for the count down.
- Listening to the countdown in Lubwisi and shouting too early.
- Beating on our milk pail that caused the bats in our rafters to swoop down on our heads. Pamela and I to screamed and Jess and Pamela ran inside.
- Walking down the road because we thought we heard fireworks and coming upon our neighbors dancing around a tire with burning plastic inside whilst beating on jerry cans and watering cans with sticks. Needless to say we joined in the fun which brought joy to those around us despite our obvious lack of ability.
- We continued down the dark dirt road, the neighbors following us with the flaming tire now on a stick. Still beating on jerry cans
- Coming back home still hearing the beating.
- Closing my shutters... still beating on jerry cans... putting in ear plugs... still beating...
HAPPY NEW YEAR BUNDIBUGYO!
Haha, what a PARTY that sounds like! Glad to hear that the list of quotable quotes is still growing! Sounds like new team members Pam & Josh are funny & a JOY to be with;)
ReplyDeleteAnd it also makes me happy, yet incredulous at the same time, that some things haven't changed...like Impali, bats, loud neighbours, sweat...bahaha.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, Annna:)