Team Time! (for you TH folk)

There are 6 of us ‘Muzungus’ working at Smile. Meghan, USA, has been here since July and has been working as a nurse and now a teacher. Holly, UK, has been here since September and will be here until June, she is helping in the baby room. Sarah, USA, arrived with me and is helping in the field with kids but hoping to teach some and will be here until June as well. Marie, USA, arrived with me and is here until mid December, she is working in the clinic prepping to go to med school. Anna, USA, also arrived with me and is here until mid December, she is also working in the baby room. 

(L to R) Sarah, Marie, and Anna

It has been so amazing to hear everyones story on how they got to Africa and how the idea came about coming here. God works in mysterious ways! Marie and Anna are staying with another missionary family in Tororo and on Thursdays we are free to use their home to cook dinner!!

So our first meal was spaghetti!! We bought noodles, sauce (in a jar even), beef sausages and our dinner was delicious!!! The next week’s meal we made was a vegetable mix:) We went to the market and bought bell peppers, carrots, tomatoes, green beans, and potatoes. We cooked them all together in a pan with beef sausage and it was also delicious! Africans don’t eat raw vegetables, that I’ve noticed so far, so I’m really missing my vegetables!

(L to R) Anna, Me, and Sarah

Beef Sausages!

We had a great time thinking about what to cook, cooking, eating, chatting, playing Skip Bo, which has become a new favorite game for Marie, Nerts, Phase 10, and getting to just be together as a team. It is so wonderful having a group of people going through the same thing and being able to talk our feelings out in a place that is so unfamiliar to us all.