Saturday, we went to a concert/ministry/outreach event hosted by Amazing Grace, the local Ugandan church that Janet, one of our staff engineers, attends. It was a ton of fun. They had set up a temporary stage in a little field and brought in the requisite giant, extremely loud speakers. The program was supposed to go from 2-6pm. We arrived a little after 3, but the program actually ended up running from about 3:30-7:30pm. But we stayed the whole time and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Children of all ages from the church performed various dances, skits, and lip syncs (which they called "mimes"). They were all amazingly good (like 8 year olds performing dances that looked practically professional) and were complete with matching outfits made from different African fabrics.
The most interesting part was how our little
mzungu (meaning "White people" or generally "foreigners") section became a magnet for dozens of kids. Most of the time, their parents tried to keep them from bugging us too much (or from disrupting the program), but we always had several different kids around us, either sitting by us, holding our hands, playing peek-a-boo, or the most popular: playing with our cameras! That became a huge hit, and kids were grabbing for my camera and taking dozens of photos with it for hours. (I think 200 photos were taken with my camera that day.) Below is a photo of some of our new friends taking photos with Megan's camera.
It reminded me of how much I loved spending time with the kids when I was in Nairobi. Kids are such a blessing. It's amazing how well people can communicate with just a smile. =)
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