Heading home for Christmas!

It’s hard to believe November has come and gone!  Although, we’ve had some cooler, rainy days which made it feel a bit like fall (as much as it can in Uganda!).  I’m heading home to Canada in a few days, but thought I would do one more blog post before I go.

November is exam month in Uganda, so our Senior 4 and Primary 7 students both had long days of government exams from the end of October to the first couple weeks of November.  These are very stressful exams for our students, as they are quite difficult and have a big impact on each student’s future.  P7 exams determine if a student will be able to move on to secondary school, and the S4 exams determine whether students will be able to go on to advanced level secondary and then university, or if they will need to find a vocational or certificate course to take.  Our teachers do a great job of prepping the students, but they are often here from very early in the morning until late at night studying hard.  We pray that they will be successful and will be able to move on to the courses they desire!

The past month has also been full of home visits!  We had 58 potential nursery student homes to visit, and some of those visits took us far down footpaths through matooke plantations and down “roads” that seemed almost impassable!  I only got the truck stuck once!  But these visits helped us determine the most vulnerable children in our surrounding communities that would benefit most from attending school here.  These children will be available for sponsorship on the Kuwasha website (www.kuwasha.net) soon.  Sponsorship is such a great opportunity to invest in one of these young lives to give them hope and a bright future!

We had a team arrive the last week of November, and they have been doing work projects around the campus.  It’s great to see them work alongside our Ugandan workers and get some much needed tasks completed!  The Jeremy James guesthouse is now complete, with a large kitchen, eating area and living room and it looks fantastic!  The new guesthouse block is getting closer to being finished and will be ready to host teams in the new year.  We are also getting ready to welcome a new family, the LaFleurs, to Kibaale and are doing some repairs and finishes to their house so it will be ready for them when they arrive in January!  We are so excited to have them join us here and know that they will be a great addition to the team.

I’m excited to head home for Christmas and catch up with some very missed family and friends!  While I’m home I will also be doing some work at the Kuwasha office in Surrey.  It will be good to see how things work on the Canadian side of things!  I will be heading back to Uganda mid-January and will start blogging again once I return.

Thanks so much for your support and prayers!  Wishing you a very Merry Christmas!