Today, Monday, Lauren and I let Natasha spend the night and then we all woke up together and made tea and coffee and relaxed. At 10, Jordan showed up at our door! I was so happy. We spent the morning together catching up and praying and reading and then we walked to garden city and bought internet and a water heat (the one I brought didn’t work). After the mall we relaxed in our room and then called our driver Francis and who picked us up and brought us to Bwaise to meet up with Kelsey (the area director for Purse of Hope) and Katie (the bead manager for the Bwaise house). It was the drop-in center today so there was over 70 women there all working on a huge bead order they got from a department store in Chicago, and also tailoring, and hairdressing. We spent a few hours with them and then took boda-boda’s from Bwaise back to our hotel. They were hassling us for too much money before we got on (everyone said they would) and then they were kina mad when we got on and drove really fast and I really scared us bad. They were jetting through traffic and just being horrible drivers. Jordan was by herself on one. She said that was the worst it would ever get. Back at the hotel we rested for a minute before walking back to Garden City and had dinner with about 10 American volunteers from different NGO’s around Kampala including Kelsey and Katie. Dinner was really great. We had a good time getting to know each other and Kelsey told us tons of stuff about the Purse girls and about different going-on’s of the NGO’s and people Jordan knows in Uganda. We got home around 10 and rolled into bed, exhausted as usual.
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