Africa

I am currently sitting in the Hotel International in Kampala, Uganda. We have the evening off after playing music for a local high-school. We have been teamed up with a group of dancers and preachers to deliver a program of music, dancing, and evangelism to different high-schools through out Kampala.

Being here is such an experience and I don't know if simply typing about observations does it justice. The country is very beautiful and the city has it's moments.

People are everywhere all the time. Driving is crazy - the people seem to be pretty nice all around. Sometimes I feel like strangers hate me, but only sometimes. White people are called Mazungos (muzoongoos). The people at our host home are pretty amazing. Getting to know them and spendimg time with them has been great.

I'll post some pics when I get back - I took Lindsay's nice camera with me and have taken a ton of photos and videos.

I miss linz, but have been fortunate enough to talk to her everyday.

J

Coldplay!

Earlier this week, Jay and I went to see Coldplay. It was amazing...it was the happiest concert I've ever been to.

Here is during Yellow (one of my favorite songs in the world for almost 10 years) when they threw a ton of huge yellow balls out into the audience to bounce around - amazing:


Here's during Lovers in Japan when paper butterfly canons went off to shower the entire audience - amazing:


Looking straight up:


Here's where they walked out into the audience (the first time) to play some songs - amazing:


And here's where they walked out into the audience (the second time) to play on the lawn behind us - amazing:


And then, they gave away a free CD to everyone on your way out! The whole thing seriously just made you happy.

PS I love my new iPhone! Though I feel as though we weren't really as far away as the pics look.

This will be a work in progress...

Jay left for Africa yesterday and instructed me to go water our very dead grass at our new house every day to try to help it. So I went over there today and found myself watering more dirt than grass:

I think when the former owners decided to sell, their realtor told them they needed to work on the front yard. So they threw some pieces of sod out there to fill in the holes, but I honestly don't know if it did much good. But today I did water all that dirt and all of our little squares of sod.

Sidenote: Notice all of the neighbors' nice yards across the street. Ours is the ONLY house on the block with dirt and squares, so obviously this is not a case of climate, bad dirt, too much shade, etc.