Today after checking out of our hotel room we arrived at Chayah and got down to
the business of employee reviews. All is well and everyone was happy to receive
a well deserved increase in their monthly salary...and we
are blessed to be able
to encourage them that way.
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We talked a bit, Dann with John and me with the older
girls. Rashid received
the balance of the unused water balloons from yesterday and
made quick use of
them. 9 yr old
Maureen, was our photographer this morning and took these shots.
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| Photo by Moreen |
Melissa and Edrine are in their final year of primary school
so they have been
in classes everyday during the week from 7 to 4pm preparing
for the final term
and their final primary exams.
Today though, they returned at about 1pm for lunch and then
to spend our final
afternoon with everyone at the pool. Dann and I no longer fit into the 7
passenger van with all of the kids and Janet, they've just
out grown it so we
took Melissa and Olivia with us on bodas and stopped at
three shops that had
shown interest in the t shirts they had made. I was wearing mine, but I
encouraged them to each wear one as they were trying to sell
them. They came
out of the bathroom from changing with a customer in tow
who'd complimented them
right away on their shirts.
Two shirts were sold right there on the street at our retail
price to a group of
visiting short term missionaries, which is exactly who their
target customers
are. These girls
wanted to take pictures and were so encouraging and our two
we're so excited. 
It
didn't go quite as we'll in the other two shops, but they
sold 2 more to the main vendor on the street "The
Source Cafe", and two to
another shop across the street. Now the most difficult part of all, saving
all 80,000 shillings until January when we return. With all
the copying that
goes on, they may have just had their best day with this
design, but they have
gotten some experience, and opportunity so that is worth
something.
We headed to the hotel and met the rest of the group which
quickly exploded into
squeals and shouts and stealing of floatation devices.
It was the first day in
a while when nobody went under involuntarily, whew! Of course, we didn't know
realize that until the end of the day so we some super power
vigilance until
everyone was safely dried off. Ice cream on the patio came next.
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| Doreen |
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| Sharon |
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| Judith |
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| Regina |
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| Yoweri |
We are grateful.
I'm in the back seat of now of Chris's compact car about
90minutes into our long
drive to Kampala for our final night here in Uganda. That means we have had
our swim party, a
small dish of ice cream a final group picture and said our
goodbyes. My heart is
tear stained once again, but what a gift to love and to
be loved by Chayah's children and staff. I'm uncomfortable beck here but I
don't think it's because I'm packed between the stack of
empty suit cases and
the door. More
likely, it is because for the life of me I cannot figure out to
pull these two worlds of ours closer together. It might
really be a gift
actually, that I have no choice but to focus on the family
that is on the same
continent we are.
There are at least 12 people I cannot go much longer without
putting my arms
around...and so it is a gift to go from one amazing family
here to precious
family at home that call us by our real names "Papa
& DD". Life with Jesus, on this side of heaven doesn't get a whole lot better than that.
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