Sunday started off with church, late as usually. Since Pastor Margret was home yet still sick, a guest speaker, a lady pastor of another church, gave the sermon. Her main points were: "Be serious" and "wrestle with God until He blesses you". I think she was trying to get people serious about their relationship with God and that God blesses those who actively seek him. Her Bible passage was on Genesis 32:22-31 were Jacob wrestles with God.
Joshua also had got his studio somewhat set up so I snapped a few photos of it (see photos)
Sunday night I tried to first wrapping gifts but couldn't get it all done in time. Pastor Edube, Pastor Robert and I also went over the schedule for the rest of the week to finalize the plans. I would teach a workshop at Buwuni on Monday from 10am to 1pm, a workshop at Buhobe on Tuesday from 11am to 2pm and Bulenda on Wednesday from 1pm to 4pm. That night, I also let the children light up a few glow sticks to everyone's delight!
Monday morning I hurried to prepare for my workshop which was going to be on business and money management. I reached the church at 10am....and sat there until 11:30 or noon when enough people finally arrived for me to feel starting my workshop was worth it. Because of the last start my workshop ran late by about 2 hours. So tiring! But the class went well and my question and answer session lasted for about 1.5 hours.
Monday night I finally had everything ready to treatment my host family to a special suprise Christmas celebration! (see photos) I was careful to have a gift for each person who was present (culturally you need to include everyone to be polite). Some gifts were for specific people and then I had some extra gifts separated into "adult" gifts and "kid" gifts since you can never know who will just happen to be there in this house of 20+. At first they were all a bit confused but then like a whirlwind they got the idea and suddenly the house was filled with laughter, shrieks, and "what-did-you-get?!"'s. Note to self, wrist watches make a GREAT gift (those Walmart watches might as well been gold), as do glow sticks, which the children never bored of.
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