They call me Musungu :)

Today I had a little bit of a culture shock. While I was teaching in my class this morning I noticed there were a few students who were working slower than the others and taking longer to understand the material. I walked around to them one at a time to help them, and as I was doing this, their regular teacher walks up to them and smacks them across the head a couple times! I stood there in utter shock. Did he really just hit his students for not working fast enough???

Good thing that I stay after class as a tutor for the rest of the day, because there are several who are behind in school. I tutor this amazing girl named Priscilla...she is so bright but has missed a lot of school because she lived in an orphanage for many years without any schooling. While I was in the "teachers lounge" during break I had my very first cup of porridge! It was pretty delicious! :)

The past two days we ran a VBS at the University campus for all the children around the neighborhood. It was so great! Over a hundred kids showed up both of the days! It was so fun to lead that with the other students from the College-- who were very surprised that a "Musungu" (White) girl could play futbol! :P I swear there are 4 year old children playing soccer better than me! it is quite embarrassing! lol but still very fun! Some of the College students are trying to teach me Swahili and Luganda-- the two main languages besides English. I am learning some basic words but can confidently say that I will never be able to pronounce most of the words! haha :)