Matany, Moroto, and Much Much More

March 26^th-28^th: Friday- Sunday

Since I will be leaving here in a few weeks Jim and I wanted to visit Logiel Mark before I left. Jenny and Heather wanted to come and see Matany and visit Mark as well so after work the 4 of us along with JB and Okwai Moses set out for Matany. As we pulled out of the gates it began to rain ominously. thunder and lightning. a killer stalks the night.

All this proved notwithstanding though since the rain soon left and although the sky remained cloudy the roads up to Moroto were clear and somehow smooth. We stopped for petrol in Moroto and continued on to Matany where the road became a bit more dynamic. Upon reaching Matany we drove to the hospital and back to the guesthouse where located out rooms and learned that dinner was still in progress. Jim, Moses, JB and I went to go find Mark. We met him just outside of the surgery ward where he is working; it is good to see him. We went back to his quarters and he changed his cloths and then he returned with us to the guest house. /he had to leave to go to dinner and we ate some decent although rather odd food including pizza and fish noodles. after that we watched some satellite TV and then went and visited Mark. we got to talk and pray with him for a bit and then returned to the guesthouse where some went to bed and others did email and I slid around on the floors in my socks.

Saturday morning was really fun. Mark had classes early so we toured the gardens and Jim was able to buy some plants for his house and Moses got to spend some time in the lab and Heather got to see all the agriculture that Robert, the Italian missionary was doing. We got to go into town for a bit with Mark and have a soda and I bought a nice plastic red mug with “ok” written on the side and everything was just ok. we had lunch and met/talked with some of the missionaries working there and played “mobile” the most confusing African game I have ever played. after lunch we left and went direct to Nakipiritpirit where we planned to spend the night and meet Salim a Bangladeshi working for concern there and have some Bangladeshi food. unfortunately he had just gotten back from a trip so we drove the 45 minutes to home after Moses, JB, and I had a fight with some small fruits.

that evening the Baumgardeners came over and we made naan and paneer tika masala and watched slumdog millionaire. and I had tea out of my “ok” cup and the whole evening was just ok.

Sunday the morning was cold and cloudy and every one was late for church but almost everyone showed up so it was fine. That night Jim and I and the singles went over and hung out at the Wrights were we talked and looked up engrish.com a website with funny English spelling and grammar mistakes from all over the world.