Our first day of Bible School. I was not excited about started, I don't know really why but I am never very confident about how children and people will respond to me. Looking back on this morning though, I realize how silly that was. I don't want them to respond to me at all, but to the love of Christ we show. It breaks my heart how they responded to us on this first day. White people are such a rarity, I can't help but think they are responding to us as they do just because we are white. But I can't let my thoughts be that negative, we all have to stay focused on showing Christ to these boys and girls and not let ourselves get caught up in thinking about how and why they are responding to us.
Billy and John sent us on a sort of scavenger hunt around the city of Arua to help us get acquainted with the town. We met a guy named Bernard, who took off from his job to help show us around the market. A surprise to both us and him, he actually knew John from selling
groceries to him. Riding a "boda" and bargaining a price was part of it. Bodas are the Arua equivalent of a taxi--a bike with a "seat" for a single passenger (pictured left). I really didn't feel comfortable with it and I really tried to avoid the task as much as possible. "really, we can probably just walk," I told the guys I was with. Come to find out, just about all of them shared my feelings about the Boda but like me, didn't want to blatantly say it. I ended up bargaining a price for our ride across town to an old church and come to find out, I did a really good job and got a better price for a farther distance than Billy had expected us to get. Not to mention it was far cooler than I had expected and we all found ourselves wanting to do it again later. And besides...those guys are FAST.
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