Final Sunday

The last few days post are below (Thursday onwards) no pictures for Sunday, lots of short videos though, but can't upload them as would take an age...

This morning (Sunday 28th November) I made my way to Sunday school to teach Christmas carols. They were doing a play on the birth of Jesus and needed to learn 3 carols, Judith thought a guitar would help aid the process. I was a little nervous as I approached the 50 strong group of children but within no time at all we were into the swing of things. We played 'Away in a Manger', 'Joy to the World' and 'Go tell it on the Mountain' on some adlib chords and beats.

Judith has lived in Africa all her life as her father had moved out to Uganda in 1947 to work on supplying many of the towns with electricity.
She was here during Ugandas move to Independance from 1952-1962 and during the genocide in the nineties. Speaking to her she recounts the speed of Westernisation over the decades and how she got her English accent from the BBC world service, how during the early nineties she'd heard gunfire on and off for months, day and night, including the shelling of a town only half a mile away from Potter's Village.

After Sunday school she invited Kristin and I over for coffee to her home on Kisoro high street. As we entered her front garden, her groundman was catching grasshoppers to fatten the Christmas chickens and her adopted Ugandan 10 year old daughter Pamela came to greet us with their mischievous dog, Delilah.

We ate some of Pamela's birthday cake and had tea. During the short stay Pamela was catching grasshoppers too, she pulled their legs off and when bored of that place placed them on me or in my hair.

We made our way to Traveller's Rest to have a farewell lunch with the Americans who'd travelled to Kisoro and then went back to Potter's Village to clean up. Tomorrow I'm hoping to climb one of the Volcanoes, we'll drive to the base and then walk for 9 hours...I think an early night is in order.