Sunday, December 3rd. We arrived at church at 10:30am. I was worried because I thought church started at 10am. No worries though. It starts at 9:30am supposedly. No one showed until 11am I think. Africa.
Church had a very long service of singing and dancing, two sermons, worship songs (think southern Baptist after a energy drink), tithes & offerings (two total separate things here), spontaneous praying of the whole church at once, introducing visitors (including me) and up coming events. Children randomly came and left the church during this time as well as a few adults. More like a family gathering.
After church, I gave out bounce balls which were supposed to go to the children but adult ladies snatched them up too. I had a few health care items, soap, dental floss, etc and other random gifts for people.
One little girl was chewing on a glow stick from the other night. Those are toxic if ingested so I switched her and gave her a cute stuffed dog instead. She shrieked in horrible and tried to run away. Oops. Thankfully, a lady grabbed her and helped her accept the gift, while telling the little girl to say thank you to me. My guess is she never seen a stuffed animal before.
Then we walked up the mountain to Pastor Peterson's family to have lunch with them and meet all his extended family. I was a bit in a hurry to get done since we had planned to take the late bus to Kampala tonight. We also took family photos.
At 5pm we were finally back to the hotel, where I hurried to pack my luggage and shower. We were told the bus leaves at 10pm with ticket sales starting at 9pm so I was confident that we would be ready in time. At 6:30pm the usual visitors came: Pastor Nathan, Pastor Peterson, and Nickson. They went over the hand written receipt of the food for the party and finished up any left over details.
While they were there I casually confirmed the bus times for the night. It's a good thing I did because they said that because it was a weekend the only bus actually left at 8pm, with ticket sales starting at 7pm. I looked at my watch. 7:11 pm! And Joshua was still at the studio and not packed yet! Thankfully, he came just then and we were able to catch our bus out of Kasese.
The bus ride was long and not that comfortable but the nice thing about traveling at night is that it's cooler. Unfortunately, my restless leg syndrome was bothering me pretty bad. I felt like I HAD to move. It's like mosquitoes biting you constantly; so I really didn't get much sleep.
We arrived in Kampala at 3:30am on Monday but we were told before we left to wait at the bus station until 6am because of thieves and other dangers of moving at night in Kampala. I felt very dirty from traveling (trash and dust are all over public buses). I waited just to head out but we waited/slept on the bus until 5:45 am and then headed out.
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