SNE. Today two surprising things happened, but one of them shouldn't have surprised me because it wasn't that new. Firstly, I went to meet my superior about the fact that I'm supposed to preach at church tomorrow.. and he post-poned it until January. Shouldn't have been too surprised about that one ;) BUT, while I was in his office, I got stung by a bee! Twice! First time getting stung by an African bee, coooool!

Monday November 18 
Finally got my VISA extended (take 3!) Also, pretty sure this is the first time ever that I've gotten a tan while Christmas shopping! ;)

Sunday November 17
Back-to-back episodes of sermons with Norm Miller! Had home church today and worked on my preparations for my first ever sermon preaching later this week. Also back-to-back episodes and season finale of Korra, one week before it airs in Canada, ooooh!

Saturday November 16
Whew! Today had a handful of surprises. Here's the full list:

1) 2 Great Blue Turacos in the yard this morning, cool!
2) finally got our car trunk open
3) rising anticipation for November Christmas party (tonight!)
4) someone discarded a dog carcass outside our gate... not cool.
5) went to a Christmas bazaar in town... apparently we aren't the only ones who are early...
6) made Christmas cookies! in November!
7) Didn't actually make it to the Christmas party.. we tried... Got a little lost. Then a little more, and after 2 hours decided to go back home, which took another hour indulged in coca cola and Christmas cookies and picked a movie at random to console ourselves, turns out it was actually a Christmas movie!

all in all, a mysterious day filled with Christmas miracles. sort of.

Friday November 15
Our day off in Fort Portal. We visited the sights, saw the caves named after breasts (because of the stalagmites and -tites), saw the Rwenzori mountains, and also, for the first time ever, saw crater lakes formed by ancient volcanic activity. cool!

Thursday November 14
SNE. I spoke at another primary school this morning and then proceeded to take my first official sick day working with Power to Change. I got food poisoning.. and it was my own fault... I just really liked the pizza we ordered the other day, but I guess it wasn't meant to be enjoyed over the course of a few days. oops. haha. I couldn't hold ANY food down today, I tried.. but then I puked. :)

Wednesday November 13
WOW! We've been speaking to University students thus far, but today we got to visit primary schools too. I had the amazing opportunity to speak to over a THOUSAND kids today about the love of Jesus! Never done that before!

Tuesday November 12
We returned to UPU today and got to meet lot of lovely new people, students and teachers alike. We began teaching and speaking to the interested student leaders and got a taste of what ministry is like in Western Uganda :)

Monday November 11
And we're off! First time ever visiting the wonderful city of Fort Portal. Wow, western Uganda has mountains and is quite a bit cooler than Kampala temperatures, and it's very pretty! We made it to campus in the evening and met the students of Uganda Pentecostal University for the first time ever. Something New Everyday!