Mrs.O's writing room.

About three weeks ago I took a cab from the bus station back home and I was trying to give the cab driver directions. For some reason I had to repeat myself 2 or 3 times before he figured out what I was saying. I thought maybe I was not audible enough, when I finally reached home the cab driver got out of the vehicle and said to me "I'm sorry mom, I wasn't able to understand what you were saying because I don't speak French". He basically left me speechless , I mean, now my English sounds like French?! It's now a household joke, if we go some where and Sam has to repeat himself, we just say "anti your speaking French". Mich however is in a league of his own, it's been three months of cold and winter and poor kid has not been able to go out and play with other children except in Sunday school. He has however been watching his favourite TV shows faithful, Sesame Street, Bob the Builder, Dora the Explorer and Diego. But now he is rolling his ' r...

So we called our friends the Okoboi's and told them our flight had been cancelled and told them the soonest we could get back to Philly was Monday night. That meant Mich would have to spend two extra nights at their house. We felt bad about the unplanned extension but there was nothing we could do to change the situation. We also called the Hotel and told them we were coming back, that was not a problem for them. What did we spend the extra days doing?? touring the city, what else?. Dallas is a very beautiful city, the streets are very clean, the people are very friendly, the weather at the time was very good, not hot and not cold just right. It's very green, the trees and flowers are well groomed. I thought Uganda would look like Dallas fifty or so years down the road, but only if we stop being selfish, cut the corruption and focus on the good of the country as a whole. I also discovered that Dallas is the Bible belt, I was amazed that there were scriptures inscribed on the wa...

Last Thursday Sam and I were able to arrange for a trip to Dallas, Sam had to meet with the colleagues he will be working with in Mercer and we thought it would be a good time to go house hunting. We had a trip scheduled last month but we didn't make it because of lousy weather, it was snowing heavily, after getting to the airport and waiting for about seven hours the flight was cancelled. This time round we had good weather, got on the plane and landed in Dallas safe and sound. Mich dearest went to spend time with our friends Felix and Candy, he has lots of fun with their girls besides the company was only able to pay for the two of us. We got in to Dallas about 9pm, caught a cab and headed to our hotel, interestingly the cab driver had strong African looks and an accent to go with it so Sam dryly asked him where he was from. Turns out he was closer to home than we expected, well he was from Sudan and has been here for five years. It was nice because after telling him where we wer...

About a year and a half ago God brought some three ladies into my life, certainly well worth it. It's not like I didn't know them before then, I did but some how I think God brought them closer for that time in my life. I met Sheila way back in 1995 when she was in charge of the dance group for the Christmas cantata, she was such a bully, as in if she didn't like you chances were very slim that would be considered. I was lucky I got into her good books, we danced together and were also in the choir but life led us down different paths from that point. Then there is Flash, let me just say we literally knew each other from our nappy days. Okay maybe that is stretching it but on a serious note we were in the same class from primary one to seven. We went to different schools after that and met again in church several years later. This time she was in charge of the choir, ho! serious woman I tell you. As for Ed, she is one of those people whom you just find in your life and can...