All in a Day's Work

In North America, we consider a normal work week to be 40 hours (or even less in some organizations). In Uganda, it is a very different story. The normal work week is considered to be 48 hours and most people put in quite a number of hours beyond that.
Greg's team has to be available seven days per week to handle any maintenance issues that arise. They also have to be available in the evening at the weekly Bible study and whenever there is a special event taking place. In Kampala there are five Watoto celebration points and someone need to be available at each of these sites whenever anything is happening there.
One of Greg's team was having trouble with the power generator at the South site so we decided to go there to attend church and see how the generator was doing. It is a long drive from our apartment to the South site, but any drive in Kampala is always entertaining and the traffic is not so bad on Sunday morning.
We have often told you about all the things that can be carried on a boda boda, but we have never taken any good pictures. This guy is carrying a large bag of charcoal on his boda- not unusual to see a site like this. However, we thought you might be interested in what he had on top of the charcoal. Yes, that is a live chicken. We have seen up to about 20 live chickens tied on one boda, but we thought we would start you off slowly!

It has occurred to us that we seem to talk about and show pictures of the fun things that we do. We don't want you to think that we are just on a big vacation here. We actually do work and here is some proof.

This is Greg and Grace, one of his team members, checking out the generator to make sure that everything is ready for the Sunday morning celebration at Watoto South.

Each day is a new adventure in Kampala and you never really know what to expect. They are doing a lot of road construction right now so driving now has more challenges than usual. I (Lorenda) have been doing a lot more driving lately. One of our friends compares driving in Kampala to a slow dance- you just move slowly to the right, slowly to the left. I personally see it as more like a football team- everyone out there has an assignment. When I drive, I am a running back- I let the other cars, trucks, bodas, pedestrians block for me and I sneak through. I'm getting so good at it that I am thinking of changing my name to Kory (if you don't get that, you need to watch more Rider games!) Greg, on the other hand, plays the position of linebacker and the blitz is always on! Two very different styles, but so far both have been effective!