Kids say the funniest things

Here is your weekly dose of things these boys say.


One of our board members, Courtney, is here visiting.  We were listening to music in Luganda(the local language.)

Richard:  What is the use of a tailor?
Me:  To fix clothes.
Richard:  So they sew?
Courtney:  Yes.
Richard:  So the song says, "Sew me."  Did you get that?
Courtney:  No.
Richard:  Of course not.





Richard and Courtney were writing a letter.

Courtney:  What do you want to say?
Richard:  That I am becoming a doctor these days and if they know of any hospitals that need a doctor my number is 077777777.
Courtney writes that and Richard discovers it.
Richard:  That's not my real number.  I am not going to get the job because they are going to say I am not serious.  Why did you write that?




One of the boy's uncles came to visit the house.

The uncle:  How are you?
Me:  I'm good.  You?
Him:  I'm good.  Then looking down and seeing that my feet were really dusty from walking he says, I see you are so busy.
Me:  Um.  I just got home?




I was searching the music on my computer and was looking for a song to play.  I was going to choose a song that I play a lot.

Me: My favorite?
David:  What?

Our life in photos

Paul, Jacob, Ronald

Ronald

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Jimmy waiting at the airport 

Jimmy and Paul

Dunkan and David

John and Jimmy

waiting at the airport for Courtney

me and Jimmy

Paul and Moses after church

Paul

What I heard this week

Here is your weekly dose of the crazy things these kids say!

I have been keeping a garden, and it has tons of greens in it.  I picked some on Sunday for lunch and Kansiime cooked them for us.

Me:  The greens were really good today.  Thanks for cooking them.
Kansiime:  You're welcome.
Me:  Were they good because I dug them well or because you cooked them well?
Kansiime:  All of it.

More on the story of greens.  In Uganda, anytime you farm or grow plants they refer to it as digging.  I was serving lunch on Sunday.  I was still at the back of the house serving food when I heard Paul shout from the front of the house, "Thank you for digging!"  Clearly, he loved the greens too.

We were at a fancy mall on the other side of town picking up the strawberry plants.  I took 3 of the boys with me and the mall was having all sorts of promotions because of Christmas.  There was a life size Santa Clause doll, dressed in a red sequin suit, that danced.

Me:  You see that thing?
David:  Yeah, it is Father Christmas.
Me:  Yep, we call him Santa Clause.
David:  Why doesn't Father Christmas bring us a bunch of gifts?
Me: uh...

There is a song in Uganda and it is about a guy that wants to buy his girlfriend shoes until he realises what size shoe she wears.  When she tells him a really big size, he says she has gorilla feet.  Not the nicest song, but it is still pretty funny.  Richard and I joke about who has gorilla feet now.  Our opposite of gorilla feet are cat feet.

We are sitting in the slums waiting for the women to arrive and a church lady gives her baby to Richard to hold.

Richard:  Playing with the baby, "Who has the gorilla feet now?  Him?"

More on gorilla parts, after my things were stolen my hand was really swollen and I couldn't move it.

Me:  Ah, now I have a gorilla hand.  Look how big it is!  It is just like a gorilla's.
Richard and Jimmy just stare at me, not laughing.
Me:  Why aren't you laughing?  That was funny.
Jimmy:  Maybe to you.


Wishing you a happy new year!

Photo time

Monday of last week we spent in the slums helping our friend with his party for the boys on the street.  

Christmas Day we went to the slums in the morning to give boys eggs, bread, and juice.

Then we had lunch at home and headed to the beach.

Hope you have a great week!

Last week in pictures

Sylvester at the Gandhi statue at the Source of the River Nile.  I had to go to Jinja to get my visa figured out, so we did a little sight seeing.  For having lived in Uganda their whole lives, the boys have really seen very little of it.  Most of them only know their villages and Kampala.  They have never gotten the chance to visit any where else.  

Sylvester and I on the Nile River.

Several of the boys and I spent our Friday with the boys on the street.  Our friend was showing a movie at his programs and the boys are all captivated.

I am not the only one excited for our garden.  Our tomato plants are doing so well and have many baby tomatoes on them. Kansiime is so excited he couldn't wait for them to be ready!

I found someone that sells strawberry plants and could not resist!  Strawberries are really hard to find here and if by chance you do, they are so crazy expensive that we can't afford them anyway.  But now, we will have our own, fresh, soon.

These boys love little kids.  One day, in the VERY! far future,  they are going to make great dads.  They are always playing with the neighbourhood kids, actually any kids they find.  I was leaving the house and I was met by Jacob and all of his little friends.

To get the strawberry plants, we had to travel to the very far other side of town to a super fancy mall.  She had set up a table in one of the malls foyers.  When we got there, she was all sold out of strawberries and told me that I could come back on Monday to get others.  However, once she found out how far we travelled, she called someone and they brought them to us. Here is John and Jimmy taking a rest before our journey back home.


We hope everyone has a great week and Merry Christmas!

Things heard around our house

These boys are hysterical.  Most days, these boys have me dying laughing all of the time.  Their surprising wit and even insight into things is incredible.    So I am going to start sharing their funniest shenanigans with you every Wednesday.

I was walking with Vincent and had my hands in my pockets.

Vincent:  What’s in your pockets?

Me:  Nothing.  Why?

Vincent:  Why are your hands there?

Me:  I don’t know.

Vincent:  Puts his hands in his pockets and then says, “My pockets are boring.  Let me try yours.”

We then walk by a little boy who has his hands in his pockets, both start laughing, and he says, “See everyone else’s are nice.”

Richard, John and I went to eat after we were walking all day looking for a new house before we moved. 

Richard:  The food was nice, but I have a complaint.

Waitress:  I’m sorry.  What’s wrong?

Me:  Just ignore him.  Everything was fine.

Richard:  No, really.  I have a complaint.

Waitress:  It’s fine.  Let him talk.  (looking worried)

Richard:  You see, I like to eat a lot.  The food was fine, but it was not enough.  I am still hungry.

Waitress:  Dies laughing.

Richard at dinnertime asking me to serve him food.  (He’s a 15 year old boy and is growing, so he is always hungry)

Richard:  You’re joking around talking to me, but really I am dying.  Please, can I have food.  At lunch, they gave me such little food.  For them they don’t know how much I eat.  For you, you know, but them they don’t.  I am really hungry.  They gave me little food, then Lucky (our cat) wanted some and you know if I didn’t give her she would rip my face off, so I had to share.  Please, do we have food?

The water at the house has been out for several days so we have to take jerry cans to the tap to get it.  Vincent brought me the jerry cans to show that we needed to go and get water.

Me:  What happened to all of the water?  Why did you take it all?

Vincent:  Be serious.  You can’t drink a jerry can.  What am I, a frog?

I had just put my contacts in, so it looked like I was crying.

Jacob:  Are you fine?

Me:  Yes.

Jacob:  Don’t lie to me.

Me:  I’m fine.  I just washed my face and put my contacts in.

Jacob:  If you are lying to me, God will beat you.

I was sitting on my bed in the morning drinking coffee and checking my emails.  My coffee was sitting on my bed, when Dunkan came into my room and started plopping himself down on my bed.

Me:  You’re going to spill my coffee, please don’t.

Dunkan:  Sorry.  Then he gets up walks away and comes back.  He plops back down.

Me:  You keep doing that and are going to spill coffee all over my bed.  When you do, what am I going to do to you?

Dunkan:  Thinks for a second and then says in a mischievous voice, “Give me a high five” and then makes the motion of a high five while saying, “in my face.”

Richard:  Do you know apes?

Me:  What?

Richard:  Apes?  The ones that are like gorillas?

Me:  Yeah, why?

Richard:  Just think about how much they love bananas.  That’s how much I love you.

Photo Mondays

In an effort to start giving you a better insight into our daily life at the home, on Mondays I am going to share a photo from the week before.

This is Ibra.  He is showing off his fake tattoo.  Currently, the boys are obsessed with candies that have fake tattoos in the wrappers.  I don't know which they like better, the candy or the tattoos.  Whenever they get them, everyone in the house ends up being covered in fake tattoos.  I drew the line at the dog though, but that doesn't mean the boys didn't try.  :-)

Happy Monday!