New Family, Camping and Basketball

A lot has been going on in the last couple weeks. Are team welcomed a new family. The Kaisers arrived about two weeks ago. They are in the process of looking for a house but until then they are staying with me in the guest house so i've gotten a chance to know them pretty well. Daniel and Andrea and their children Josiah, Nora and Zuri are from Chicago and plan on being here in Soroti for two years, so we are very excited to have them here.

Two weekends ago after the Kaisers first arrived, we had a team retreat and went camping at Sisiyi Falls. We first went and hiked Sipi falls and then drove back about an hour to our campsite at Sisiyi. The falls were amazing and we got he hike behind one of them and to the top of another. I'm hoping to get some pictures up from this trip soon.

One of the things i've started to do in the last couple weeks is have about 9 students from the local Bible college over to our house for a sports and games night. We started with basketball, which was very interesting because none of them knew what basketball was or how to play so we started from the very beginning.  I started by telling them some what the point of the game was and then taught them some of the basics like dribbling and tried to get them to use  the correct shooting form. So the first week they just dribbled and shot around for about and hour and a half and they loved it. It was really cool to see them trying something new and it was also quite funny to watch as well.  At the end of the time they were about to head out when some of the guys who usually come over about 4-5 nights a week and play basketball showed up. Those guys started shooting around and doing lay-up drills and the students from the Bible college couldn't believe how good they were. So the next week when the students came back we started again with a little shooting but then they wanted to try lay-ups as well so I explained to them how to do them and instructed them on where to go and what to do and they ended up doing very well. So we are slowly working are way up to being able to play a game against each other and its really neat to see their progress.  Tonight I'm planning on introducing some more passing and dribbling drills. Depending on how that goes, the next step is introducing defense and then we'll be able to play so i'm excited to see how it all ends up.

Josh