Well the hustle bustle that never really stops even to pause not even for Christmas here in Uganda. Nothing got blown up which was a huge answer to prayer with all the threats circlating around at Christmas time.
The babies are great, a couple weeks ago everything got turned around. Most of the babies here at Suubi moved down into the village and we have had oppertunities to go and visit them from time to time. A bunch of the babies from bullrushes moved here, there are about 30 babies here now and 10 special needs kids. It just makes Suubi that much better with all the kids (well not quite) that we've built bonds with over the past month are now here with us at Suubi. We are both loving it out here. The kids are all older 9 months at the youngest up to 2 years, so its alot of fun playing with them and seeing them laugh.
Christmas Eve was fantastic!! Spent the day with the norweigens back at our old place, we had each had a secret santa which was alot of fun and we had alot of laughs. Then got into a taxi at 8:45 and what should have taken us 1.5hrs ended up taking 3hrs the trafic was so painful. Christmas day we had an early morning working with the babies, it wasn't anything special, but it was nice to spend the day with them. Then we started making supper for some of the volunteers, the 4 norweigens (Amy, Lina, Tone, and Kristine), the australians (Jen, Anita and Lucy) and one guy from NZ (Andy). The dinner was good, we tried to have a traditional but this is africa lol... we had bought a ham but left it back at Buziga on Christmas eve, which we didn't notice until 6pm as we where going to take it out, so we improvised and made speghetti. It all worked out in the end and had alot of fun playing cards and chatting.
This week Amie and I have been struggling with being sick, right now Amie's feeling better but I'm hopefully at rock bottom and will be ready to get back to work on Tuesday, thankfully we have tomorrow off to just chill.
On Thursday we went into town to do some much needed grocery shopping, unfortunatly we skipped soccer this week as we were not feeling well. But before we went shopping we walked up to bullrushes and visited all our old babies, I love Suubi, but for those babies I would move back to Kampala.
New years eve we spent at Buziga and enjoyed dinner and games with 11 other volunteers. We went up to Cassia Lodge, a resturant on the hill with a view of the city but didn't get in because you needed reservations, even though we had asked a week ago and they said that we didnt. So we ran back to Buziga just in time to catch the last little bit of fire works from the balcony at the house. We then stayed up playing games and went to bed, then had a skype date with the lovely Carly... and welcomed in New Years with her back in Canada.
So apperently the babies are all feeling better, after a week of cranky babies that is quite a relief!! Please pray for continued health for us and the babies... also keep Sudan in your prayers as they are voting to split or not in the next week. So pray that a war doesn't break out there, and for the ivory coast which is at the beginning of a genocide.
We hope you all had an awesome New Years!! Thanks for keeping us in your prayers
-Christina
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