African Visitors

Last weekend, we had the privilege if hosting the traveling performance group called The Young Africans, composed of college aged former members of the African Children's Choir. We all enjoyed the lively, colorful and moving musical show. This horribly blurry phone picture shows the "Jerry Can Dance," a thumping song that incorporated plastic gas cans as percussion instruments and dance props.

Our family hosted a young man from Uganda named Timothy and the groups sound technician (from Oregon).

Timothy has dreams of studying land economics and becoming an actuary. The funds raised from their tour will help him and his choir mates be the first among their families and villages to go to college.

I had hoped Stephen could learn something about other cultures and perhaps poverty... But he was quite shy. 

Timothy taught us a little Luganda ... 

"Oldio Tya?" Is "how are you?" And "jendi" is "fine."  We also learned that kids in Timothy's village usually make their own toys, such as cars by shaping bits of wire and dolls from plantain leaves.