Okay so here is a bit of randomness...
I want to coin a new sauce word...but not really a new word...just a level of "done-ness"
Being the good Italian that I am...I love sauce!
Just thinking about it makes me hungry!
So today when I was making my sauce for dinner, I naturally was sampling it to see if it was ready...
I tasted it about 5 or 6 times and then it came to me...
This sauce is perfect...
How do I know this...
Because if someone handed me a thermos I would be willing to pour the sauce in and drink it...
So yeah...my sauce isn't done until its drinkable...
Makes sense in my mind...
Probably no one elses but like I said...I was feeling kinda random ;)
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
March 16th
Please be praying for GBI these next few weeks.
The Ugandan National Counsel of Higher Education is coming to GBI on March 16th to review our school to see if they will grant us our accreditation license.
This would be huge for our school as it will become one of the only Nationally recognized bible schools in the area. It would also be a huge benefit to our students, who's certificates and diplomas will be recognized all over East Africa.
The next few weeks, will be busy ones as we make sure all of our paperwork is in order and ready for review...basically it is a school wide audit...
Be praying that all goes well and that we are able to get everything ready for the NCHE review in perfect timing!
The Ugandan National Counsel of Higher Education is coming to GBI on March 16th to review our school to see if they will grant us our accreditation license.
This would be huge for our school as it will become one of the only Nationally recognized bible schools in the area. It would also be a huge benefit to our students, who's certificates and diplomas will be recognized all over East Africa.
The next few weeks, will be busy ones as we make sure all of our paperwork is in order and ready for review...basically it is a school wide audit...
Be praying that all goes well and that we are able to get everything ready for the NCHE review in perfect timing!
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Interesting Stats...
Found these from the 2009 World Audit...the lower the number the better...
United States:
Uganda:
Thursday, February 18, 2010
excitement?
Well...I thought so...but it turned out not to be the case...sorry readers...
Here's what happened...
So I was in the village this past weekend...and by village, I mean, deep bush...one family I visited was about an hour and a half walk into the bush, with no car access to reach them...
When I reached home, I noticed that I had a raised bump on the back of my heel with a black dot in the center...Now, let me say, I have never had a jigger in my foot before, but I was told that they pretty much look like a bump with a black spot...
So I asked my neighbor what she thought...she wasn't so sure what it was
So then naturally, I ask a co-worker...who said...yeah probably...
Then I go to the clinic and the doctor says...i don't know what it is...but I don't think its a jigger
Well at this point, I am not quite sure what to do...i know I tried to squeeze it and nothing came out...but still, I'm thinking...this has to be a jigger...
So I go back to work, and tell my co-worker what the doc said...and then she tells me her home remedy to jiggers...
apparently if you poke the black spot with a needle, squeeze a little, then put Vaseline over the area, the jigger just crawls right out of your foot...
yeah...it made me a little sick to my stomach too...
BUT, I also thought...how cool if it actually worked and I caught it on video and posted it on my blog...
So after work, Jennie and I tried her theory...lets just say, If i showed you the video...you would be bored out of your minds cause NOTHING and I do mean NOTHING happened.
And yes, I still have this bump and black spot...Ill keep you posted if anything exciting evolves :) haha...don't cross your fingers though!
Here's what happened...
So I was in the village this past weekend...and by village, I mean, deep bush...one family I visited was about an hour and a half walk into the bush, with no car access to reach them...
When I reached home, I noticed that I had a raised bump on the back of my heel with a black dot in the center...Now, let me say, I have never had a jigger in my foot before, but I was told that they pretty much look like a bump with a black spot...
So I asked my neighbor what she thought...she wasn't so sure what it was
So then naturally, I ask a co-worker...who said...yeah probably...
Then I go to the clinic and the doctor says...i don't know what it is...but I don't think its a jigger
Well at this point, I am not quite sure what to do...i know I tried to squeeze it and nothing came out...but still, I'm thinking...this has to be a jigger...
So I go back to work, and tell my co-worker what the doc said...and then she tells me her home remedy to jiggers...
apparently if you poke the black spot with a needle, squeeze a little, then put Vaseline over the area, the jigger just crawls right out of your foot...
yeah...it made me a little sick to my stomach too...
BUT, I also thought...how cool if it actually worked and I caught it on video and posted it on my blog...
So after work, Jennie and I tried her theory...lets just say, If i showed you the video...you would be bored out of your minds cause NOTHING and I do mean NOTHING happened.
And yes, I still have this bump and black spot...Ill keep you posted if anything exciting evolves :) haha...don't cross your fingers though!
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
A City School in the Middle of a Village
This past weekend I had the opportunity to travel south to Rakai District. A District that has been ravaged with HIV/AIDs and that lies on the border of Uganda and Tanzania.
I was there for business...Distributing and Collecting Surveys from Childcare workers that are involved with Africa Renewal Ministries.
While I was there, I had the opportunity to be a part of ARM's newest primary/secondary school opening day ceremonies...the school is AMAZING!
It will be the new school to many of the nomad families that live in the area as cattle keepers and farmers.
The locals were so excited, that they celebrated with singing, dances and speeches (for about 6 hours)
What a blessing that another 200+ sponsor children can now go to school!!
I was there for business...Distributing and Collecting Surveys from Childcare workers that are involved with Africa Renewal Ministries.
While I was there, I had the opportunity to be a part of ARM's newest primary/secondary school opening day ceremonies...the school is AMAZING!
It will be the new school to many of the nomad families that live in the area as cattle keepers and farmers.
The locals were so excited, that they celebrated with singing, dances and speeches (for about 6 hours)
What a blessing that another 200+ sponsor children can now go to school!!
Friday, February 12, 2010
GBI Book Drive
Gaba Bible Institute is having a book drive to help us launch our new Child Development Diploma September 2010. The program is geared towards child care workers who will be working with children at risk in East Africa. To meet the Uganda accreditation standards we need to have a child development library of 2000+ volumes....We need your help to do this!!
Below you will find a link to our book wishlist on Amazon. You can purchase books off of our list on our behalf and they will be shipped to someone who is helping us coordinate the books being brought over to us in Uganda.
Thank you for your support and participation!
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Gotta love Yellow!
Yolks that is...
So you may not know this but pretty much all of the eggs here have some crazy greyish color yolk when you hard boil them...
Just imagine, grayish egg salad rather than light yellow...it still taste the same (somewhat) but your mind plays funny tricks on you when you are eating gray egg salad and so its just not as enjoyable!
So the other day I was super excited after buying a tray of eggs from my friend Christine's house...I got home and boiled some eggs and to my surprise she has some super hens that lay yellow yolked eggs!!
Let me just say, my egg salad sandwiches are so much better now!
Right now, I am praising the Lord for the little things...like the color yellow :)
So you may not know this but pretty much all of the eggs here have some crazy greyish color yolk when you hard boil them...
Just imagine, grayish egg salad rather than light yellow...it still taste the same (somewhat) but your mind plays funny tricks on you when you are eating gray egg salad and so its just not as enjoyable!
So the other day I was super excited after buying a tray of eggs from my friend Christine's house...I got home and boiled some eggs and to my surprise she has some super hens that lay yellow yolked eggs!!
Let me just say, my egg salad sandwiches are so much better now!
Right now, I am praising the Lord for the little things...like the color yellow :)
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Mail!!!
SO as you know most of my blog posts are post-dated...
I am writing this on 13/1/2009 and its a special day...you know why!?
Its the first day in 6 weeks that I have opened my PO Box and there was actually a letter inside! I was actually not expecting to find anything when I opened it that when there was something I did a double take and had to make sure that it was actually for me and not a mistake!
It was first Christmas card from the US...mailed on 8 December and arriving 13 January...wow...5 weeks for a letter...our postal service really is taking its sweet ol' time...BUT I don't care!!
I GOT MAIL!!!! Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am writing this on 13/1/2009 and its a special day...you know why!?
Its the first day in 6 weeks that I have opened my PO Box and there was actually a letter inside! I was actually not expecting to find anything when I opened it that when there was something I did a double take and had to make sure that it was actually for me and not a mistake!
It was first Christmas card from the US...mailed on 8 December and arriving 13 January...wow...5 weeks for a letter...our postal service really is taking its sweet ol' time...BUT I don't care!!
I GOT MAIL!!!! Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Really?!
Today was a day that I had to just shake my head and laugh...A kinda day where you sit and ask yourself, "Did that really JUST happen or am I having some kinda crazy dream because I know this doesnt happen in real life...usually!?"
So I have come to realize that some things that don't happen in "USA" life are totally normal here in the UG...yes...its true...but today...my goodness!
It was about 1:00pm and I had decided to go into Kampala to pick up a box from the main post office and to look for some child development books in a nearby bookstore...little did I know what I was in for...
A friend of mine text messaged me while I was on the taxi into town and said she had to go to the PO box too and so we decided...since I had a box and she had a car...it would be a perfect match...
Little did I know...it may be better to take public transport to the main PO box in Kampala...at least I know for next time...
So at 1:30, Kate and I are at the PO Box...by "at" I mean we are driving around trying to find a parking space BUT we can physically see the office...
At 2:00...we are still "at" the PO box and we are still looking for a parking space...
At 2:30...its the same story...
At 3:00...Kate and I are seriously questioning whether picking up our packages are worth the hassle and decide to flip yet another U turn to find a parking space...this U turn backfired and before we knew it we had a traffic officer opening the back door to Kates Rav4 and sitting in the back seat...
Apparently its normal for the police to get in your vehicle...yet another new thing I learned today...
So this officer tells Kate to drive to the police station...which we werent to sure where it was but we did what she told us and as we are driving she is telling us it was illegal to pull a U turn...
We of course are apologetic trying to explain that we didnt see a sign for no U turns and that we didnt know it was a law...
After about 20 minutes we finally are in front of the police station...the cop tells us to pull over and proceeds to tell us that what we did was illegal and that the police at the station are going to impound the car. She hesitates and says...what would we do if that happened...
Our response...then we have to walk I guess...
Then the punchline...she says she will have forgivenness on us...BUT we have to pay for her forgiveness....can anyone say BRIBE!
Good ol Kate says forgiveness is free and unless the cop wants to give us a reciept for her forgiveness we werent paying...
Here it comes...BRIBE request #2...well...can you pay for my lunch then...its time for me to eat...again...Kate asks for a receipt...you have to love her persistance!
Then bribe #3...well I cant but you have to pay for my transport because you drove me all the way to the police station and how am I supposed to get back to work...haha..gotta love that...because WE really wanted to drive her there in the first place...so we volunteer to drive her back instead of giving her the money...
At 3:30 we are finally back to original place we got pulled over and guess what! We see a parking space...we park...along with the rest of the cars there and get out...so excited that we are finally about to get the packages when we hear...
"excuse me"..."you cant park here"
We look...parking attendant...
Kate and I ask why not and he says...well this is a no parking zone...so we proceed to ask about all the other cars parked there...
"Well...they are just stopped, not parked"
We look...there are no drivers in them...so pretty much...they are parked...
Then we ask, "we have parking tickets, can't we use these to park here...?"
He says..."how long will you be?"
In which we reply...about 20 minutes...
He says..."well...your tickets wont work BUT how much will you pay ME to park here"
HAHA! Bribe Request #4...REALLY!
At this point Kate and I roll our eyes at each other and are back in the car, back on the road with no place to park and pretty much no hope for packages...
After a few more turns we finally made it into the post office and got our packages...they werent as big as we were told they were so we were probably better off taking the public transport, saving 3 1/2 hours and the headache of avoiding 4 bribes in one afternoon...
But oh well...so is life in UG...
As I got out of the car at my place...Kate turns to me and says "Well...I never have a dull day when I am with you Lena"
Gee...thanks Kate...I think!?
So I have come to realize that some things that don't happen in "USA" life are totally normal here in the UG...yes...its true...but today...my goodness!
It was about 1:00pm and I had decided to go into Kampala to pick up a box from the main post office and to look for some child development books in a nearby bookstore...little did I know what I was in for...
A friend of mine text messaged me while I was on the taxi into town and said she had to go to the PO box too and so we decided...since I had a box and she had a car...it would be a perfect match...
Little did I know...it may be better to take public transport to the main PO box in Kampala...at least I know for next time...
So at 1:30, Kate and I are at the PO Box...by "at" I mean we are driving around trying to find a parking space BUT we can physically see the office...
At 2:00...we are still "at" the PO box and we are still looking for a parking space...
At 2:30...its the same story...
At 3:00...Kate and I are seriously questioning whether picking up our packages are worth the hassle and decide to flip yet another U turn to find a parking space...this U turn backfired and before we knew it we had a traffic officer opening the back door to Kates Rav4 and sitting in the back seat...
Apparently its normal for the police to get in your vehicle...yet another new thing I learned today...
So this officer tells Kate to drive to the police station...which we werent to sure where it was but we did what she told us and as we are driving she is telling us it was illegal to pull a U turn...
We of course are apologetic trying to explain that we didnt see a sign for no U turns and that we didnt know it was a law...
After about 20 minutes we finally are in front of the police station...the cop tells us to pull over and proceeds to tell us that what we did was illegal and that the police at the station are going to impound the car. She hesitates and says...what would we do if that happened...
Our response...then we have to walk I guess...
Then the punchline...she says she will have forgivenness on us...BUT we have to pay for her forgiveness....can anyone say BRIBE!
Good ol Kate says forgiveness is free and unless the cop wants to give us a reciept for her forgiveness we werent paying...
Here it comes...BRIBE request #2...well...can you pay for my lunch then...its time for me to eat...again...Kate asks for a receipt...you have to love her persistance!
Then bribe #3...well I cant but you have to pay for my transport because you drove me all the way to the police station and how am I supposed to get back to work...haha..gotta love that...because WE really wanted to drive her there in the first place...so we volunteer to drive her back instead of giving her the money...
At 3:30 we are finally back to original place we got pulled over and guess what! We see a parking space...we park...along with the rest of the cars there and get out...so excited that we are finally about to get the packages when we hear...
"excuse me"..."you cant park here"
We look...parking attendant...
Kate and I ask why not and he says...well this is a no parking zone...so we proceed to ask about all the other cars parked there...
"Well...they are just stopped, not parked"
We look...there are no drivers in them...so pretty much...they are parked...
Then we ask, "we have parking tickets, can't we use these to park here...?"
He says..."how long will you be?"
In which we reply...about 20 minutes...
He says..."well...your tickets wont work BUT how much will you pay ME to park here"
HAHA! Bribe Request #4...REALLY!
At this point Kate and I roll our eyes at each other and are back in the car, back on the road with no place to park and pretty much no hope for packages...
After a few more turns we finally made it into the post office and got our packages...they werent as big as we were told they were so we were probably better off taking the public transport, saving 3 1/2 hours and the headache of avoiding 4 bribes in one afternoon...
But oh well...so is life in UG...
As I got out of the car at my place...Kate turns to me and says "Well...I never have a dull day when I am with you Lena"
Gee...thanks Kate...I think!?
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