Friday, January 19, 2007
homestays...
Tomorrow morning at 9am, we leave to go to our homestays. i will be staying with a family for two weeks in the area, while also walking back and forth to school for class. it should be a very unique experience. im kinda nervous, but i think it should be fine. look for posts all about it soon! probably monday or tuesday. be well!
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Good luck. Hope the family speaks English.
Maybe this will inspire you to produce a family drama about an American family living in Uganda. You can call it "Little Hut on the Savannah." Your parents can play Pa and Ma, you, Becky, Heather, and Sarah can be the four daughters, Matt can be Albert, Brian can be Willie Oelson, Elizabeth can be Nellie Oelson (since she's blond). Noah can play Reverend Alden since he went to Bible college and Eric can play Doc "Doogie" Baker. Since Uncle Ben likes to sneak drinks he can play Mr. Edwards. Since Uncle Jim will cry if we don't give him a part, he can play an annoying, recurring townsperson that we see sometimes in church or in the mercantile. The only question is who should we cast as Mrs. Oelson - Aunt Gina or Aunt Amy - hmmmm, that's a tough one.
Of course you can go another route and do a sitcom called "Full Hut." Aunt Amy would have to play the part of D.J. Tanner since she was as bad as D.J. when she yelled at Ben on the phone that day. Uncle Ben can be Uncle Jesse since they both have outdated 80s hairstyles.
I read in Sports Illustrated that the Giants Mathias Kiwanuka is going to Uganda to spend some time with his family. Now it is possible that you are staying with one of his relatives.
If so, please tell him to tackle Vince Young next time, not dance with him
Oh, my gosh. Jim, you always did have the best one liners...
Noah is angry at me today because I have been very "witchy". I think the word he used is "psycho". So I guess I should be Mrs. Oelson. That would probably be a good fit. This will open Amy up for the role of D.J. Tanner.
Can you imagine if you get in with a family as sick as ours? It would be pitiful to think about if the reality weren't worse. Because after all...you do live with a sick family like ours. Every day here in America you are part of US. How awful!
Remembering that probably makes you want to set up shop down there in Uganda forever.
Oh, by the way...I think you are going to do great with whoever you are with. You are just a pleasure and a doll. Anywone would love to have you in their home.
Said the psycho to her niece...
It was always fun staying in someone's house in Russia because their hospitality was always so far and beyond anything I had experienced here. Have fun with it and enjoy the home cooked meals.
This may not fit in here, but there has to be on or two benisms for every post I should think. So here is mine (until I could think of something better):
If Australia is Kangaroo alley, and the US (not just NJ, but our whole country) deer alley, what does that make Africa?
PS. And make sure you don't become a traitor to our country and support those soccer teams in Uganda.
Tenywa Bonseu's feet stink up the whole stadium!
Hopefully, each Ugandan family has one person who has nothing to do but cook for you and wash and iron your clothes and bring you mint juleps why you are sunning yourself on the veranda.
I am always so uncomfortable staying in someone else's home. I just hate the fact that they are forced to do extra work for me. If both parents are working and they are pressed for time, you make sure you help out, even though you suck at being a girl. Let's not have the Ugandans thinking all Americans are lazy!
What is lost in all this is the fact that we are all proud of you and I, for one, am a little envious. I would have loved to have had the opportunity you have, make the most of it. Of course if your next post says that your dinner was fried crickets washed down by fermented water buffalo milk, my envy will disappear. But we'll still be proud.
Love, Uncle Jim & Aunt Martina
tell Kiwanuka I said Hi and that he should go for Strahans record ;)
Don't cry if one of your shows are cancelled. Because Jimmy and Mary Kay cried when the Brady Bunch was cancelled and we couldn't control that.
PS. Ben wonders if Uganda grows coffee beans.
I cried just as hard as Jimmy and Ben did when they cancelled Batman. What was Grandma supposed to do - call the broadcasting company?
Uncle Ben was very upset when they cancelled FB Pie
Whenever I bring up how he used to cry when Batman was cancelled he seems to turn it into how Aunt Mary Kay and Uncle Jim cried when the Brady Bunch was cancelled.
Now I want to see if he will cry when Little House on the Prarie is cancelled.
I'm always the last one to know about these important family events.
By the way its the one and only Keith.
Seriously, at Aunt Bubbles Anniversary i'm talking to ur sister
"How's your sister doing?"
"Good, its hard for her to get the bugs out of her clothes."
That wasn't the answer i was expecting. I was very, very confused...very. Luckily your mom explained it to me and gave me ur blog thing.
Anyway, it sounds like your having fun and enjoying uganda. I bet if you read this, u'll be like "Whose this?" and delete me. My parents even knew, but forgot to tell me, jeez i'm like the black sheep.
So, hope you keep having fun and um i'll keep checking ur blog i guess. I dont know what else to say, so...oh my parents say hello
In "Little Hut on The Savannah" Uncle Jim should just be some random guy in the town that nobody talks to or likes. Then he won't kill the show and he can have a part.
It was pretty funny to see Keith's reaction when I said that about the bugs. He is like "What are you talking about?" He assumed you were at Messiah... Oh Keith...
Good luck Kat I hope your family is super cool Luv you lots!!!!
Silly Eric. Even people in Uganda know that Little House on the Prairie WAS cancelled back in the early 80s. Remember? Albert climbed a mountain and died and they blew up the town. Then all the townspeople, led by Uncle Jim, marched out of the town singing "Onward Christian Soldiers." Don't know if there are mountains in Uganda. If not, Katie will have to stage a different death scene.
It's awesome having Keith join our group. I'm sure in no time he will be Ben's favorite person to telling something to.
Lets not give Uncle Jim a part. As long as he doesn't show pictures of me we don't give him a part. He would KILL it
Oh Becky, how can you turn on me. Yesterday when you were crying to me about how your parents did not understand you and treated you cruelly, did I not comfort you? Didn't I tell you that life was not so bad and you should not run away from home? Alas, now you seek to attack me.
Who is matt d? I have a nephew named MATTHEW D. You should use your real name MATTHEW MATTHEW MATTHEW MATTHEW MATTHEW MATTHEW!!
Keith, glad you are around, but Kate is in Uganda. Have some sensitivity. You are an African-American Sheep, not a black sheep. Your post was funny.
Did you ever see Tracey Gold in Growing Pains? That is Aunt Mary Kay. And "I'm sure in no time he will be Ben's favorite person to telling something to." does not make sense.
Danny, Uganda is a former English Colony. They speak English.
Sorry Kate, but this isn't about you anymore. ;-}
shhh, Ben still somehow can watch the same episodes over and over (and over) and over. We don't want him to know that it is cancelled.
Whenever Little House on the Prarie is about to come on he nags me about being his "Favorite Person to Share what Country Used to be Like with" but as soon as it comes on he is silent. (Or Ben's version of silent anyway, you still get all the sound effects)
Since Uncle Jim posted while I was typing, I will go on to look at the above comments and note that it stopped being about her 2-3 comments from the top. Now it is purely about Ben I would assume.
Don't know if that is good or bad, so I will put both a smiley face, and a frown.
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And MATTHEW
http://tinyurl.com/2stlbl
Aunt Jimothy so you have the brains to post a picture of me. Impressive! So you go from dogs to Ben to Me who comes next.Keith or Eric? I am pretty sure you lose 1000000 brain cells a min. but you don't have that many brains so you go down negative every min.
Extra for every beer he drinks. But I don't know where you came up with the 1,000,000.
I won't tell Ben that Michael Landon is dead. Otherwise I would have to hear about the guinea pig sitting on his lap in heaven. Don't know why Uncle Jim is picking on me without provocation, but I can't be Tracy Gold. Remember, she is anorexic and got "so blasted thin." That is so not me, but it might be Katie when she comes back from her diet of crickets and bats.
wow. our family is so nice to each other :-)
and if anybody ever read these comments and didn't know any of the context, we'd all be taken away to the "funny farm" as uncle luciano likes to say.
Well, Kate...you certainly have a crazy family. Everyone tries to lighten your day and bring a piece of home to you. You should never feel alone again. Jesus is always with you. But so is this crazy group of people that you call "relatives." Best to just love us all. Just as we love you.
Ben is sick today and I have to take it easy on him. Let me think of who else I can make fun of...?
As far as staying in someone else's home: Jim may hate it, but I love it. Everytime I go to speak I stay with people. I don't make a lot of money, as my job is considered ministry. If I stay in a hotel, I burn up my whole fee. If I stay with someone, I go home with a decent paycheck.
Everyone dotes over the speaker. The people that host me always spend much of their day tending to my needs. Jim doesn't like it because he must not be spoiled. On the other hand, I am spoiled, so I love it.
My needs are always very simple, as I don't eat much and am very happy with a small plate of pasta. As long as the host can point me in the direction of a WAWA so that I can buy my cappucino.
Guess they don't have a WAWA in Uganda do they?
I would not be a good traveler I don't think. I don't mind my little speaking engagements. But I could never adjust to going out of the country. The time change alone would kill me. I admire you for taking such a bold step.
I love this blog. Thanks for taking the time to set it up. I love having a place where we can just be the silly family that we are.
And I love the fact that Keith joined us. And yes, an "African American sheep" is better than saying a "black sheep." Seems you should have learned that somewhere in a politically correct class. Don't that teach that these days....?
Uncle Jim Matt sounnds better. Uncle Jim Jesus didn't die on a rabbit he died on a cross Kiss for you Kate. Back to the T.V. show I think Uncle Jim can be the family bat. They both look the same so he doesn't have to dress up. Eric (Doc "Doogie" Baker) can treat Mr. Edwards and maybe give him a chcoalate rabbit if he is bad. No beer if he is good.
Kate Bens says Hi and hopes you tell everone about Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays
Yes, it is a shame Uncle Foxy isn't feeling good. Tell him that the doctor said that it is coming from too much caffeine.
"But I'm not a caffeine freak, I choose not to be. And you are to young to be ... And you are too young to be."
Okay, Okay, I fixed your picture Matt. Maybe next time I'll make a picture of Uncle Ben with an alligator for a pet. He would like that until he lost a hand. I must make a note to remind Ben about Michael Landon's death.
I would prefer not to be spoiled. In the immortal words of Uncle Ben "I don't want to be an invalid ... or a cripple" As long as God gives me leave I would prefer to take care of myself.
Can you imagine if Katie reads all this and is pissed off. Wouldn't that be something.
Here is a cute one of Keith and Becky
http://tinyurl.com/3dcjq7
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