Certainly not Guilty...

Well I just spent an amazing weekend with two of my greatest friends here in Uganda. One of them you know...he is called Innocent. The other one you don't know but here is my other good friend....INNOCENT! (remember I met 4 in one day....)

For ease of understanding I will use their surnames in my entry. So the Innocent from before is called Aswiimwe Innocent and the new one is called Mushabe Innocent.

Mushabe was in my town for a training session on monogamy (a serious issue here) last week. I told him that he should come to my place for Friday night and we would go out and eat Muchomo. He was absolutely ecstatic about the idea and accepted the invite readily. So on Friday night I picked him up from the workshop and we went out to meet a couple Muzungo girls from Edmonton for Muchomo. He was pretty pumped to have his picture taken with the beautiful Muzungo girl and eventhough he couldn't really talk to her he was loving life!

He also ordered more Muchomo than I have ever seen anyone order and ate all of it. We then went back to my place where I showed him pictures of hockey and ice which absolutley boggled his mind. We chatted to all hours of the night trying to understand one another (he only made it to Grade 5 so English isn't super strong). We then woke very early the next morning to get ready for our day. I got ready while he tried to figure out how to use a laptop and my cell phone (this boy really is from "The Village"). I shaved and then went to the bathroom to brush my teeth. When I came back to my room he was holding my electric razor with the most puzzled look on his face. He honestly looked like a monkey trying to figure out what the heck it was. I tried to explain what it was and then he asked if he could try. So I let him have a go. It was hilarious...I wasn't laughing out loud but inside I was dying. He was puffing his cheeks and using the wrong end of the razor. I had to show him...showing him meant me using the razor on his face...ha ha ha what a hoot! He finally got it and then done as he had seen me do...put on aftershave (I am sure not really knowing why he was doing it) which made him feel like a million bucks!

I was then to take Mushabe to Kaberebere and drop him so he could get home and in the process pick up Asiimwe as he and I were going "Deep into the Village" as they call it. We were going to his home village Kikagate. When we arrived to pick Assiimwe I had to get a picture of the three of us...I mean really how often do you meet an Innocent? Let alone 2? Add a Kent and you get Innokent (their idea not mine).

Mushabe then decided that he too should come to Kikagate and Asiimwe was very excited to extend the invite. So Innokent made the long (eventhough I was told it was near) trekk to Kikagate. When we arrived the view alone was worth it.

The place was absolutely beautiful. Similar to the foothills I guess but much greener. I forced them to climb the huge hills with me which was apparently so "Muzungo" of me but it was quite grand up there and you could see Tanzania which was pretty cool.

Of course it didn't take long before the whole village had heard that Aswiimwe had brought a Muzungo to the village and even less time before I was invited into just about every home to eat. I learned it is really rude to turn down an offer to eat. So we ate...and ate and ate...I seriously felt soooo incredibly sick and it seemed the 2 foods which I don't care for in Uganda kept being served over and over again! We finally finished eating our 4th supper (no lie) at midnight and we slept in a really nice home. And let me tell you...in the village you can SLEEP. It was so quiet I felt like I could have slept forever...unfortunately in the village you don't actually sleep but wake at about 6. At 6 Asiimwe came and laid on my mattress and asked if I wanted to go to Tanzania for the day? Uhhhhh...heck yes I do. I'll post some about Tanzania later this week. My internet time has come to a close. I am truly blessed to have amazing God fearing men here in Uganda as my closest friends. I still feel like I am on Cloud 9 (not sure where that is...but it feels nice regardles!).