"home" for the weekend

As Friday rolled around, I grew more and more excited because I knew we were going back to the house in Gulu. I have fallen in love with Pabo, but I was ready to see the family that I started to miss. It was a great day of going into town with Amanda and Lindsey, and catching up with Nathan. We ate dinner-it was just like Chic-Fil-A, I swear it! Then we played the game Bananas (like scrabble) as the heavy rains poured around us. The night ended with a great conversation with Mandy, Andy, Nathan, and Kristen.

THEN

Andrew (Fuggs!) called me about 4:30 in the morning my time. We converse and joke until 5:OO and end our conversation. So, I decide to make a quick trip to the restroom before I must climb into the "womb that is my mosquito net" Andy!...Well, I looked in the toilet because something MOVED...yes, moved! It was a RAT in the toilet trying to get out and not drown. O....M...G! So I go and wake up Mandy (not sure what she was going to do, but hey, I tried) and told her that there was a mouse in the toilet and I didn't want it to die. So we both go and look, and as I peek, the rat had it's head down and I thought it was dying. Mandy looks in there and says,"That's not a mouse...it's an EFFING rat...what were you thinking?!" At this point, Catherine, our leader comes out to see what the noise was about...and we told her. She looked. Said that was her biggest fear and went back in the room. Then Danielle came out dazed and asked if there was a line..."no...there's a RAT in the toilet!" Then we wake Nathan from his slumber because the boy has a tendency to touch any creepy crawly...and he gets a cup to get the rat out. But there was still pee in the toilet. So he finally scoops it out, and it jumps out of the cup. At the "thud" Mandy promptly jumps into a chair and I literally climb on top of Danielle (I didn't want it to die, but it wasn't going to touch me either!). We were laughing so hard there were tears. Nathan finally got the rat out alive and cleaned the pee water. Savior!!!

So. Welcome back to civilization Jenni.

Cheers,

Jenni