Happy Thanksgiving!

To celebrate Thanksgiving, we went on a walk in the forest and planned a dinner of Ugandan-style thanksgiving food. W e are going to have Pumpkin soup, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, canned corn, greens, rice, wine, and a chocolate cake for dessert. We hope you all have a wonderful day and enjoy the yummy food!

A few things we did this week to celebrate the holidays:
1) We went to one of the primary schools that Jeff works with and handed out t-shirts that my Aunt sent. We had about two hundred t-shirts and thanks to the poor attendance at the end of the school year, we were able to give a shirt to every kid. Our friend Alex came along to document, so check out the pictures. One of the funniest moments was at the end of the day when a first grader came up to us crying because he had been outside playing instead of in his classroom when we handed out the shirts. You would have thought this kid just broke his leg, not missed out on a free Akron Zips t-shirt. The tears were streaming down his face. So we gave him one. But the older kids who decided to skip class got a stern warning and no t-shirt.

This day was really nice for Jeff because he often has to deal with solving a lot of problems at the school. The work he is doing here is wonderful and important, but that also means complicated and frustrating. So having a day to just hand out free t-shirts and enjoy the instant gratification that it brought to the kids and us was wonderful. In the end, the t-shirts won’t mean as much as the other things he has done, but it was so rewarding to have a nice, uncomplicated day of giving.

2)On Tuesday, we went to the Kasiisi Primary School “Christmas Concert”. More on this in a future post.

3) Today I handed out sugarcane to my field assistants to enjoy. My guys love sweet things, so this was a real treat that made them super happy first thing in the morning. I suggested that they could pick it up after work, but they definitely wanted it right away.