Mucaga

Okay, so I always hear this word when people are talking...and I think to myself, WHAT THE HECK IS MUCAGA and my co-volunteer told me today it is "six"...so...Six. Mucaga. Yeeeeeep. This weekend was SUPER crazy.
First, an update on my pal Ivan Koretta. He's now just chillin in Lugazi, the police could not keep him any longer. No one's stuff was recovered except for an mp3 player. It just breaks my heart. I know I keep saying that...but it's true. No matter what has happened or what he did or didn't do, I still want the best for him and hope he can see how much we all still love him. He's our friend. He is not allowed to communicate with us, but my prayers are always with him.
Secondly, HOLY CRAP IT'S JUNE!! DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS? SEVENTEEN DAYS FROM NOW, CHRISTIAN DEE PAGE WILL HAVE BEEN OUT FOR ONE FREAKIN YEAR! YEAAAAAAAAAAAH AND ONE WEEK LATER...ANDRES ANTONIO GONZALEZ!!!!!!!!!!! BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. I love June. I especially love June 2010. GAH. Okay....
Let's see...I have to remember what happened on Friday. Oh...nothing super exciting. We worked with my favorite Youth Outreach peeps to make a soccer game...after we taught them about HIV/AIDS. Oh AND I got my hair braided.
Wow. Okay so I'm sitting here at the internet cafe and the sweetest woman next to me just started talking to me and she offered me a necklace as a gift that usually costs 8000 shillings...that is a LOT of money for these people. But she runs a women's group and I told her I want to help her with teaching the women English and with generating income. She told me they will be so excited to meet me! YAY! I'm so excited! Okay so...I have so much to say. So friday...hair braided. It's awesome. People keep calling me, "African Queen" or saying "You look smart!" Which is kind of like saying you look cool. So...I like it :)
Saturday was the weirdest and funnest day of my life. A bunch of people stayed at Sipi falls for the weekend, but I decided to stay with some people here. So we went to Kampala for the day. We left in teh morning...OH and we went with the Youth Outreach people. I LOVE THEM! Robert, Wilson, Luta, Godfrey, Patrick, the whole bunch. I LOOOOOOOOOVE them. They're such good wholesome boys. None are mormon, but we're hoping they will be. ;) So...we went to Kampala and to this MALL. Guys, it was like...AMERICA. God bless America. Seriously. There was a mini Wal-Mart in there.....like everything you could ever imagine to be in Africa was there. I even got cold cereal and milk. Blessed blessed cold cereal. Yum. So then we hugn out in Kampala and went to the "pentagon of Uganda"...parliament...beautiful building and really cool. Then we Just walked around and got DOMINOS. It started to rain when we were like a half mile from it and we thought What the heck, we are running. The africans looked at us like yeah right, but we dragged them along. It wasn't just raining my friends it was a freakin Hurricane. Okaynot really, but it felt like it. We wereSOAKED but the pizza was worth it. And a chocolate milkshake. yuuuuuuuuuuum.
Just a sidenote mostly for Bonnie, Mal, Jess, and Gabaroo...I know how to braid hair now, so if you want me to when i get home, I will. Letr me kknow cause you have to buy extensions. Also, for anyone, if anyone wants to buy me billy joel/elton john tickets for my birthday...I'm definitely fine with that.
Geez, I have no time. I will write more tomorrow probably, but yeah...Saturday was crazy...danced at African Paradise with the Youth Outreach guys. Then...Sunday I sang Todd's song and eveyrone LOVED it. They all want to learn it. And they all said I have a voice of an angel, thank you Kyle Hanson.
And this morning I went to this nursery school (like kindergarten) and it was made of a bunch of sticks and tin basically. I really hope we can do something for them! GAH! I just am so excited about all of the projects! I walked into this school and said to the 70+ kids, "Hey guys! How are you?" and they all stood up and responded in unison, "I am fine, Thank you Madame!" SOOOOOOOOOO cute. Okay. I love you all. And African men love white girls. Peace out Mzungus.