AFRICA

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AFRICA

• By Cassia Jones

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Our Arrival In Africa

• When we arrived in Uganda we stayed in Kampala.
• Our Hotel was noted for being the cheapest in
  Kampala
• Kampala was the largest city in Uganda and the
  capital.
• Its was about the size of Los Angelos with all of
  people, probably more than L.A.

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Now into the Village

• We stayed in Kampala for about a day or two to
  retrieve money to pay for a car (special hire) to
  take us to the village.
• As you can see in the pictures one was taken in
  the city the other picture in the country before
  our village.
• The trip from Kampala to Gulu took about 4-5hours
  in a car (special hire).

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The Roads!!

• The roads vary often from the city to the
  village. The Africans just started to pave some
  of the road to Gulu.
• Which is why it takes five hours to get from one
  place to the next because the roads are full of
  crater like holes everywhere.
• Just driving from the city to Gulu was an
  experience all on its own because I thought we
  were going to run into other vehicles or run off
  the side of the road.

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Order Up !!

• Every now and than we would stop and get
  something to either eat or drink.
• This was Africas Sonic.
• What the Africans would do was get their meat,
  water, fruit and chickens, and force them into
  your window asking you to buy them.
• If you would be hungry you would purchase
  whatever you wanted by basically tossing the
  money at them because the driver is impatient.

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Entering The Village

• When we arrived in the village the Africans came
  running.
• It was really interesting to me because a lot of
  these children have never seen White people
  before, and I was the one to change that.
• They do learn about the Americans that do come to
  the villages, but to see us and touch us was an
  amazing experience. For us and for them.

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Home Sweet Home

• Our home (top) compared to the rest of the huts
  was very nice.
• The village was very large and dense with huts
  and people, but spacious and beautiful
• Our home looked similar to a home here but not as
  nice and without electricity and running water.

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Our Compound

• Well our compound was quite large.
• 1st. We had our home in the center,
• 2nd a kitchen outside that was a hut,
• 3rd our house for boscow,
• 4th the shower, and toilet and the back,
• 5th our church right next to the shower and
  toilet

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Huts vs. American Homes

• Being in Africa was an experience for me just
  with the house change.
• This house is Joels in Chicago, and the huts are
  the ones outside of our compound.
• We have running water, kitchen and electricity,
  and shower with toilet all in our home, in Africa
  there is no such thing unless you are very
  wealthy.

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The Interior

• Comparing the interior of our to the interior of
  an American home you can tell the difference
  between the two.
• The pictures shown is one of our beds that we
  slept in with mosquito nets, and the other
  picture is of the living room.
• We bought about a 4in mattress and placed it on
  our beds with sheets and slept with our sleeping
  bags on top.

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Toilets.. eww

• So toilets in America are definitely not like the
  ones here in Africa.
• The nicer toilets look a lot similar to ours but
  do not flush which means that we had to go the
  bathroom and at the end of the day poor water
  into the top part so it will be able to flush and
  we can conserve water.
• The look similar right? Well the one of the left
  is in Africa that is our square bathroom that
  other toilet, picture taken on the Airplane

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Village Toilets gross

• The toilet on the bottom was the normal one that
  we had in the back of our house.
• This other one is used in villages and we stay in
  a village in the mountains and used a bathroom
  similar in size and shape.

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Going Out into the Village

• Here in America it is so easy to go outside and
  drive your car to the store without anyone
  intervening or caring about your routine.
• However in Africa the moment that we step outside
  of our compound, the villagers are coming out to
  greet us.
• This was an cool experience because we felt like
  movie stars. People that are making a difference
  and being loved at the same time.

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Mono / Muzungo

• These words Mono, and Muzungo were used when we
  were in the villages to classify us as Americans.
  
• Once we showed up in the village the children
  would come running while yelling mono.
• We felt like movie stars

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Privacy???

• Once we got settled into our home we lacked
  privacy.
• Every morning we would walk out and see this.
  Africans climbing everything they can just to see
  the Monos (white people/ travelers)

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Our Daily Routine

• Every Wednesday we would go to a school named
  Gulu Baptist. It also served as a church.
• This was one of my most favorite things to do
  because I got the opportunity to tell the kids a
  story in the bible and have them act it out.
• We would than sing songs and finish the day by
  just hanging out and playing with the kids

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Gulu Baptist School

• The school was separate from the church, and we
  had donated money to the church to build shutters
  onto their buildings.
• For service time, which is when I spoke they
  would go into the church. The church was
  beautiful but nothing like here in America.

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Education

• I found that education lacked a lot in rural
  parts more than the urban.
• Most all the Adults that I met in the Villages
  did not now how to read or write their own
  language.
• However, in the city I found that the adults knew
  language and how to read it and write it but it
  wasnt their language it was English.

• This is a picture of an elderly women in the
  village that could only speak her language.

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Entebbe Schools

• The team got to visit another school in Entebbe
  which is similar in size to Stillwater here in
  Oklahoma.
• This school was amazing, it had a part in it for
  kids who were deaf and blind.

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Sign Language

• My major is sign language and I never thought I
  would be able to use it in Africa.
• While signing to the children and the teachers
  the signs, were almost identical and so much fun.
• This was my favorite part of the trip.
• The girl in the picture with me is deaf and I had
  the opportunity to talk with her.

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The Market Place

• Everyday we would go to the market place and buy
  food.
• The market place is the only income for some
  families and they dont sell a lot.
• The food in the market is covered with flies and
  maggots, which makes you lose your appetite.

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Gulu vs. Kampala(The Market Place)

• In Kampala, the Market was crowded, so crowded
  you couldnt drive with running people over.
• In Gulu, it was the opposite, if you are wanting
  to go, there is room and they are much more lax
  and friendly.

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IDP Camps

• Our team went to the IDP camps for a couple of
  days while staying in Gulu.
• IDP camps stands for Internally Displaced
  Personnel.
• The children in all the pictures have no parents
  or much of a family because of the War or the
  Aids epidemic.

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Continued.

• For the two days we were there, we served lunch
  to them on their school breaks, when they walked
  back home.,
• When the weekend came we got to have a bible
  study have them learn a play of story in the
  bible.
• The Two that they choose were 1.David and
  Goliath, 2. Mesach, Shadrach, and Abindigo.
• At the end of our stay we gave away shoes and
  played games.

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My Birthday

• Murefu, asked us at the end of our trip what did
  we learn the most.
• I went back to look in my book and it said that
  my selfishness was the one thing I learned to
  get rid of.
• During my birthday we fasted and prayed, and got
  to feed the children chips and tell them a bible
  story.
• Sam (interpreter/friend), his wife made me a
  birthday dinner, with rice, beans, and meat, and
  my all time favorite. MILK TEA!! Ymm (bottom pic)

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The Crusades

• The one thing that I learned is that the
  spiritual realm is much more stronger over there
  than over here.
• We did a week long revival in our town and saw
  about 30 people possessed by a demon or demons.
• In America this sort of thing never happens or
  taught that it still does. In churches even
  pastors say it only happened during the old
  testament, but it is still happening today.
• This is a pick of one of our revivals

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Continued Witch Doctors

• In Africa, people go see these witch doctors for
  healing purposes.
• Here in America you always hear about them but
  never believe it to be true.
• We actually prayed for many of them that the
  villagers knew of and one of them came to know
  the Lord.
• This is a picture of a girl who was possessed by
  a witch doctor, but now saved.

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Clothes Give Away

• The team had donations of clothes starting from
  infant clothes to adult men and women.
• We decided to give away these clothes to the
  families in our church.
• So we invited the families onto our compound and
  gave them shoes, shirts, pants, dresses, and
  blankets.
• They were so happy, and loved the clothes. The
  closet way for them to look like us made their
  hearts just drop.

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Cleaning Laundry

• We would wash our clothes about once a week or
  every two weeks.
• What we would use was 3 basin filled with water
  and soap.
• Than we would soak them in the first bucket ring
  them out put them in a clean water bucket. Than
  ring it out again and put it in another clean
  water bucket. Than hang to dry.
• The one thing that frustrated Amanda was that
  Africans always thought that we were washing
  clothes wrong or didnt know how to so they would
  try to help or just laugh at us

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Creatures from the African Sahara
These are all creatures that we found either on
our compound or outside of our compound. My
favorite one was the cricket on the bottom right.
They are not ordinary ones that you find here in
America.
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Continued Our Pets

• We had two pets on our compound.
• Murefu bought a monkey off a boda driver that
  caught it, while in Africa. We named him
  Maverick.
• Maverick was not very nice he would bite people
  if you got him mad enough (which wasnt hard).
• Than we found our praying mantis and named him
  Manny. We only had him for a few weeks but he
  was my favorite.

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Modes of Transportation

• When Murefu would go a short distance to go to
  the market he would take the bike.
• If the Africans had to go somewhere they would
  carry things on their heads and either walk or
  have a bike as well.

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Boda Boda, Taxi

• We would take a boda (dirt bike), on our daily
  routine to the town, in that fact about anywhere
  that we needed to go the team would ride these.
• Girls had to always sit side saddle and hold on
  to the back, because that is lady like.
• Boys got to straddle and held on, eventually we
  all got the hang of it and never held on.
• Than we had taxies which we would ride all the
  time when we were in the city. Never bodas
  because they were to expensive.

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Bus, Special Hire

• Murefu told us when we arrived in Africa that he
  would have us take a special hire rather than the
  bus. (bottom white car)
• The reason why is he explained was that sometimes
  the bus was very stressful
• When we got the opportunity to ride on the bus we
  started to understand Murefus statement.
• Bus rides are crammed because they fit every
  African they can in very few seats plus you share
  seats with chickens, and babies.
• The driving is always terrible no matter what you
  take, but the bus is the worst because we almost
  tipped at least 10 times on the back to Kampala.
  (Picture of Bus)

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The Work Semi

• When we had our crusade we rented a semi to load
  our equipment to transport it from in town to our
  village.
• This was one of my favorite modes of
  transportation because what you would do is stand
  in the bed of the truck and hold on to the bars
  while trying to stabilize all the equipment also
  in the back with you.
• This was a very fun experience for me I thought
  because we drove this semi in the village which
  is bigger than the roads so we got hit all the
  time by branches and trees, plus all the roads
  had pot holes which are similar to crater holes.
• But this truck would be used for equipment use
  and work stuff.

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Men

• This is a man, that was part of a family that
  lived across our compound and we were playing a
  game while, He came up drunk and stopped us.

• Men, in this country would work, but most of them
  in the villages would just drink and sit around
  while the wife would have to do all the work.
• Reason why the children would be put with a lot
  more responsibility because there is not much
  help.
• However, a lot men are not like, and they take
  care of their family.

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Women

• I think that these women work very hard.
• There was a women that lived across from us and
  her husband was an alcoholic and she had several
  kids and no money.
• We got the chance to talk to her and ask her
  about her life.
• She is a part of our church and helps out with
  our team, a lot.
• Her and her husband used to make alcohol until
  she got saved and she stopped, but He is still
  drinking.
• She now sells tomatoes to make money

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Children

• I love children, but in Africa adults could care
  less for their children, these children serve as
  a more slave purpose.
• Murefu asked us all the one thing that we did
  not enjoy about our short term trip, while going
  back and reading I put that, how people treated
  kids wasnt good and I did not enjoy it.

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Voice of Life Church

• Murefu developed a church while he was in Africa.
  We named it the voice of life church which
  started out as a bible study.
• Now our church has over 40 members, and a
  children's choir of 30.
• This building shown on the right used to be used
  as a goat pin, and they poured cement on the
  floor tore out some walls and painted.

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Our Preachers

• Boscow, is the minister while we are here in the
  states, and now Samuel is helping Boscow and
  going to seminary school.
• Both of these men are our interpreters as well,
  and we could not have accomplished anything
  without them.
• Another one, who was the women that we name Mama,
  was also a huge influence and help with our
  church. However, she never preached because she
  could not read.

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The Choir

• This is our choir, which we bought shirts for, is
  made up of 30 children.
• These kids were so much fun and amazing singers.
• I got a chance to dance in the choir while we
  sang in church, this was another favorite
  experience that I enjoyed.

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Entebbe

• There was another church that we helped out in
  Entebbe and it was very, very small.
• This church maybe had ten people altogether but
  it was amazing.
• One of our interpreters was going to this church.
  Which is how we got to visit.

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The Preacher and Children

• The preacher, was also doing a side business, to
  gain more money because the church was not
  providing enough.
• He had two kids the girl named praise, and the
  boy named wise, I loved these names and the
  children were just as beautiful.

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The Church in Kampala

• This church is where we made most of our friends
  because they spoke English very well.
• Brenda, Diana (D), and Mercy were Amanda's and I
  best friends.
• They made us feel welcome and like we were not
  even away from home, when we missed home.

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The Mosque

• There was a mosque, in the middle of Kampala
  because of the huge Muslim influence from India
  and the middle east.
• This mosque would go off on the middle of the day
  and also 4 in the morning.

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Soccer

• Soccer, was very popular in Africa, some
  companys even had the Uganda team logo painted
  on their building because they sponsored a team
  member.
• In the villages they did not have money for a
  real soccer ball so they made them out of trash
  bags.
• Here are pictures of the boys playing soccer,
  because women could not.

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The Game

• There was a time when I was in the village and
  there were kids sitting in a circle playing this
  game with the soccer ball.
• I asked them why they didnt want to play soccer
  and it was because they were either not good or
  they were girls.
• So we played this game where you get in a big
  circle and throw the ball to one another and then
  hide it and whoever is it, which was Joel and I)
  had to guess who had the ball.

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The 24 hour Prayer

• Our team traveled to a very small rural village
  to go to their 24 hour prayer.
• They had each member of our team preach, and the
  Africans with us also go up and sing.
• This was an amazing experience but very tiring
  that Amanda and I ended up sick.

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Coming to America

• When coming back to America, there was a huge
  difference in culture, which led to a larger
  culture shock then from Africa.
• I was amazed by the great amount of white people
  and all the electricity that we have.
• The bathrooms were amazing. With the toilets
  that flush and lights.
• I realized that we have so many luxuries that we
  take advantage of.
• Americans personality is what shocked me the
  most. It seems like we dont care about what we
  have because we are always longing for more.
• When I told people about my trip it would be a
  short conversation because they were either in a
  hurry or wanted to talk about something more
  interesting than Africa.

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