Extreme Makeover: Village Edition

Today was the best day so far. That sentence doesn’t even do its justice. These pictures don’t even do their justice. AHHHHH I seriously just want to live in Bunbuyoka Village. 

So to get there we take an hour taxi (a sketchy bus) ride full of about 25 people that should only be holding 15 then we pile out and hike for an hour to this village that changed my life. This picture was taken halfway to the village. The hike was full of heavy breathing, breaks in the shade and many looks from the fellow Ugandans who’s second time they’ve seen white people. 

As we are walking up to the village we are lead in by fellow village men playing these rad African drums. We walk to the village and are greeted by the most precious children singing a welcome song to us in there adorable little african accented voices. They put on this whole show for us and had like 5 songs that they sang to us. It was the best thing that has ever happened to me. We went into the village school and had a huge meeting with all the teachers in the village school. All the teachers welcomed us and said they prayed for our safe journey. Ahhhhh, everything about it was so humbling. I can't even explain this experience good enough...

So in the meeting we evaluated what needed to be done in the village....The team that came last year built a school and through the past year, the villagers expanded it but then stopped because they didn't have the budget to complete it. Soooo we decided we are going to help them finish building the school and in addition build a health clinic. They have no health/first aid/hospital type of a thing in the village and we felt like that was super important. There is so much that goes into building something like that but we figured out all the details in the meeting and it's going to happen, more details on the project coming later (we might need donations) The hardest part about getting all the supplies there is that the village is so isolated and high up in the hills that it's gunna be tough getting all the building supplies there but we're gunna do it because they deserve it and that's why I/we are here!

 After the meeting some village women made up a huge meal of posho (flour and water dough type of a thing that has no flavor), matoke (mashed up banana type thing), chicken stew stuff (I didn't touch that cus it creeped me out), rice and avacado. It was a feast. It was so nice of them to feed us when we haven't even done anything yet. They have so much faith in us and that is really inspiring....
We ate with our hands. Doesn't it look so appetizing?? 
This is pretty much what we and Africans, well Ugandans eat errday.

This is us chillin with the children after we ate lunch 

 As we were about to leave I found this precious little guy, Derrik who was super shy and I tried so hard to get him to smile and finally succeeded! We are the only Mzungus these children have seen besides last year when the other team went so I think that was why he was so shy......how freaken adorable is he tho? I mean really...

This village visit is what I have been dreaming of. This is why I came to Africa.