My first day at the college was spent touching base with the principal Jeff from the US who is a missionary here for about 6 or 7 years i think. His wife helps with the animals- they have rabbits and goats I know. Then I went with Racheal to a class- she is in the Child Development diploma/certificate area. Class was from 830-130 with a literal break (from the fast) at 1030-1100. Tea and some days tea and chapati (think flour tortilla of sorts). I love the chapati.
Right now the school has dipolma and certificate levels for theology, music, child developemnt, IT. They are adding Bachelors of Theology in January and next september Social Work and Social Admin and probably Child development bachelors.
I spent the afternoon with Samuel who is the director of the child development program and working on the bachelors level coursework. His boss is the registrar (i think head dean in our university set up) Dennis. He showed me the library which houses about 15000 titles which is large for a school in Uganda but severely lacking in reality. Students don't have textbooks- they have to read everything in the library. There is one small row of child developement and social work-sociology books. Everything else is theology related.
Lunch was beans and sweet potato and matooke and jack fruit for the staff for dessert. (yah for jack fruit!)
Thursday night I had beans and posho. They had "devotional" at 8-9 which turned into 945. Full on singing and shouting and jumping and dancing. The students from the north and south sudan lead. And a guy shared briefly from Ecclesiastes. At 945 I was just whooped and wanting to crawl into bed.
Friday morning I woke to more singing about 4am. They have devotional friday morning at 6am so that cranked up to. But there are significantly less students their from what they said.
Friday I sat in on a meeting for the bachelors of theology coursework. They are making decisions about what would transfer and how many teachers they need to get and such for January. The meeting stretched on into the afternoon. And I met with Dennis who I call the Dean. I discovered there was wifi available!- he had an ipad he was looking at with his email. This enabled me to check my mail on my phone and not have to wait for an open computer. And i could check on the weekend outside of that room until the power went out and I lost the passoword. Dennis and I talked about my possible return to teach. Both Dennis and Samuel were asking when I could come and invited me to return in January or May to teach a holiday term and then remain. I explained that I would have to work on funds in order to return and that would take time. But I would pray and work on what the Lord had for me.
I ended up in my room with plans to shower in the afternoon to maximize my opportunity for warmer water from the tank but it poured down and ended up with cool wind and cool shower after the rain past. TIA. Roll with it. No pictures really to post other than general pictures of the facility that I will post when I get home.
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