Sometimes a girl just needs to get away from home for a few days with other girl friends and have a slumber party. That's exactly what I did this last weekend...
A friend of mine, Sydney, invited me along on this girls' weekend to Suubi, one of Watoto's orphanage villages (www.watoto.com). I had gone out there with Sydney one other time and met the headmistress of the primary school, Winnie, who invited us out for a girls' weekend the next time we came.
The weekend got off to a rough start trying to leave Kampala. With horrendous Friday-night-traffic and irritated police officers, there was one point that I really believed our weekend was going to end before it even got started. After talking sense back into the officer who took Sydney's license away, we were back on the road again!
The weekend didn't consist of anything particularly spectacular, but overall it was exactly what we were looking for! We stayed up late, watched numerous episodes of Flight of the Conchords, slept-in, and played games. On Saturday afternoon, Sydney and I walked down to Suubi 2, a new part of the Watoto village where teens from Gulu now live. We brought a volleyball with us and played with them most of the afternoon. These young adults from Gulu have extraordinary stories, former child soldiers and abductees now living in a place where they are accepted as God's children and learning how God can change the future of their lives.
We also attended the village church service on Sunday morning. It was a nice way to wrap up our time at Suubi...hearing about how we are not good on our own, but through Christ, who works in us, we become good.
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