Recap - Day 5 - A Perfect Injustice Brick Throwing Continued

Waking up in Africa, still very surreal - it hasn't sunk in yet that this is where I am.  And I'm okay with that, for now.  We ate breakfast and then went down to the babies home to help with feeding and bathing the infants and getting all the kids dressed for the day!  Then back in the taxis and headed back out to Bombo (I think?!?)  to the new boys home for A Perfect Injustice!  David and Abby Kakeeto are leading the charge for this ministry and have such a wonderful vision for this 22 acre plot of land.  They would like to have 2 homes for 16 boys each, a bakery, possibly a school and church, a bakery, crops and livestock - and 5 fish ponds!  All so that these boys will have a chance in life. 

Of course the contractors worked quite a bit since the time we left yesterday and got lots done!  You can see where the window will be on this wall already.

But you can tell that his stack of bricks is dwindling so the mzungus had to get back to work throwing those bricks around to the other side of the house!

 No matter how far out in the sticks you are, there is still an audience when there are white people around!

 As the walls get taller, the need for more bricks INSIDE the house increases so we started throwing bricks "through" the windows and stacking them inside.  April (left) and Alei (right) decided to be stackers instead of throwers - and Jesse (Mr. Cool in the front) handed them up over his head - this is a very wearing process for these 3.

Even though it was a Tuesday, 3 of the boys from A Perfect Injustice (API) were allowed to skip school to come out to the land and work with us.  It helped us to get to know some of the kids that would live in this house when it is completed!  The three boys were: Davis, Monday, and Amos.

This is AMOS - a small, but VERY hard working boy.  He didn't want to waste time talking to us, he was too busy working!  I asked him to come throw bricks in the line with us, but he instead went to the brick pile and picked up 4 bricks and walked them to the end of the line!  He was also seen carrying one brick in each hand...what a beast!  He also took the hatchet to some wood and used a slasher to clear some land. He only stopped working to eat some chicken and chips for lunch.

Due to the climate in Uganda, there are all types of fresh fruits and vegetables growing EVERYWHERE!  The tree in the yard where we ate lunch these 2 days was an avocado tree.  Here is Michael's monkey with a fresh avocado that just fell from the tree.  So bright and vibrant!

At the end of the day, we were working on digging the trench for footings and making the porch/veranda area longer.  So we were able to do more hands on labor instead of just throwing bricks.  We got to help mix cement and lay bricks under the cement pad that will be on the porch.  Here is Pastor Dwight - the one in charge of our team.  He has been to Uganda 6 times and made the connections and relationships with each of these organizations.  So wonderful to see.

 Here is another one of the boys that came to work - this is Monday.  He enjoyed taking photos and goofing around between work tasks!  The other boy, Davis, was busy taking photos on Cristina's iPhone all day so I didn't get any shots of him!

 And one photo of me in this post.  I'm sure I was working...because I wasn't the one taking the photo!  A little pink in the face - probably more because of heat and not that I was getting a tan!

We finished work a little early this day so we could actually shower and relax a little before going back to the baby home for dinner time.  Then dinner at the guest house again.  I'm already in a routine and I'm okay with that.  Having someone else make most of my decisions through the day is helping me be able to experience more of Africa without thinking about the mundane decisions about life (when to get up, where to eat, what to do)!