Lets understand people/ My cat is red

Hmm ive been thinking about how I start a lot of my knows with “you know, “ or “hello everyone”
Maybe im not a good starter of blogs. But hey! Its all good.
Anyway, ive just been thinking abut how we don’t know the hearts of others… We don’t know why people act the way they do. So its always best to try to understand where someone is coming from. I think as a people if we all tried to do this while we are talking with people I think we would all communicate better and not get into so many fights by misunderstandings and badly put phrases.
but I think its not only just being able to understand someone, I think the way we view people will change. Understanding what someone has gone through will give us so much more compassion. So much more coolness in times of heat.
I think its more wise to do this than to just be mad at someone for nothing.

Well. Today was fun. Very fun. I think I just went all out crazy today. But its also because I had this huge thing of raw sugar cane… (if you’ve ever had it, its great and you know what im talking about. ) but yeah. Today was good. Everyone showed up to lessons that usually show up and I had a good lesson at the college today. So it was nice. And then earlier tonight I was writing another clumpy millet song that actually will be super awesome and I couldent get it out of my head and I was just walking around and beating my chest and legs as I walk in time to the melody inside my head… yeah… im sure other people had no idea what was going on… but hey its cool.

I had something I wanted to say… and I totally forgot.
I sang my prayer before dinner today. But I was by my self. But I think that’s good. So I don’t know why I was saying but like it was negitive… be-cause it aint no bad thing to sing by yo self brosephs and brosephinas… I do it all the time and its good.
Random thought… no one’s embraced me since I left from Tanzania… sorry to put a damper on that thought. But it makes me feel strange. And I don’t mean like a lame hug that’s an afraid hug or a side hug or the “ok, hello you’re my friend… ok please get off me…. No really I have a gun and a knife and poison gas all in one and mace up my sleeve and im not afraid to eat you (because really mace is pepper spray and I use it on my food…) “ hug. Not that I live on hugs or that I think about that all the time. Its just something that put a little hurt in my heart.
Anyway.
I have some more pictures. I think that shall be fun. Its me eating sugar cane, and pictures of some of my other students and rain.
Im so excited for cold weather coming my way when I finally reach home!
But apart from that I still feel quite at home here and I still have things to do and I still have not accomplished what I wanted (but im close… kind of.)
Wow people… my trip is almost done; this makes me kind of nervous. Well actually, quite nervous. Things are not where I want them to be right now, I wish they were like this like two weeks ago… but you know what? God sent me here and he will have me do whatever he wants me to do and there’s no reason for me to be uneasy because a lot can be accomplished in three weeks if the time is used efficiently.

Haha well, there’s the answer to that problem. That happens a lot with me… ill be like wait hold on… and then I’ll answer it myself (although its God answering through me to myself… or you could just say that God is answering me…).
Then I say, “well that was dumb. “
Welp I hope that you all have a wonderful day. Back home in Texas. And in other places. Do you know the muffin man? Well. If you don’t… Ask my friend Christina, she figured out his identity… but she’s not going to tell you just like that either so you have to say the abcs while playing the autoharp and skipping to the lou.
I think im going to end with a very dear poem that means a lot to me. So here it is.
Dvbsjkds
Vdakjba
Dkjabv
(that was stuff to fill space without leaving it blank also otherwise not knowen as the poem im about to give you. But sit tight and wait because as you read this you can prepare you mind for cats.)

My cat,
My cat is red
Your cat is dead
His cat is on my head
Her cat is in a bed,
That is what I said,
That is what I told fred.
Yes its something quite fearful to dread
When they fall from the sky like lead…

From the Sheepy Studios in Mbale, Uganda where the shepherd sighs at my senseless humor,
Scottry~~

30th post.

hey everyone!! this is my 30th post. haha quite unheard of really with me... so this is sweet! but yeah. i was at the children's home today! Quite heard of and fun. (as opposed to unheard of. ) haha so yeah i like dogs.

here are some photos!

i look kind of weird in one of them. but yeah. its all good.

hello everyone. i think it was time i told you what im actually doing.
ok so, heres my weekly schedule right now.

Mon. Wed. Thurs.
9:30am Private lesson. mostly consisting of music theory with some other stuff including guitar.
11:00am class at the bible college.
12:30 lunch till 1
1:00pm private lesson till 2:30 (or 3 it depends)Usually consisting of more drum set and other things. weve gone far in theory.
3pm to about 7pm several pivate lessons. although sometimes they dont happen...(ie people dont show up. )

yeah... thats those days.

Tues.
A full day at the childrens home. i teach music theory (one of my favorite parts of the week because these kids are sooo bright...)

Sat.
around 8am we go to the childrens home to teach music theory till about 1pm and then i come back and at 2 i go the the church to teach music theory to the youth choir and how to sing correctly and things of that matter till about 5 or 6 or 6:45 or just 6...

Sun.
8:30am go to church and set up drums and play in the service at the times of worship and praise. then church ends at 1:30pm.
then at 3pm come back to church and teach theory( if they show up on time... people are very bad about those things here... specified times are not followed all the time...)

heres a little bit of information about who im staying with. Pastor morris is the sr. pastor of the church and overseer of most of the churches in the area (he's planted about 70 something churches... pretty awesome... he is extreamly humble and one of the most wonderful people to talk to. very loving, very relaxed, and listens when you talk). Mama Idah is my mother away from home and wife to pastor morris
she takes very good care of me and makes sure what im eating is ok for me to eat( which by the way, the food has been awesome!) and makes sure that i dont lose things that are important.

its been alot of fun living here and its been a real blessing to be here in this church.

i want you all to pray for jared. he is one of my best students. I want you to pray that he may be able to learn and understand as much as he can and i want you to pray for him to continue to have the will and passion for music he does right now. he needs alot of encoragement. there are some people here that put him down for teaching things other than just insturments(without theory) because they want to see results... really frustrateing and by the time i leave i am going to make it a point that learning music with out learning music theory is like shooting an arrow when your blind. "well... i guess this is how it goes... uhhh... i dont understand why it goes like this but i guess thats ok" or " i think im going to sing and make songs that have awkwared phrase changes that change every so often and blame the keybordest for not following me."

haha yeah... anyway... before i keep going on... i absolutely love teaching and though oppisition comes in different forms, whats life with out oppisition? are we doing our job as christians if we are going with the world? remember that we are set apart by Jesus' blodd and that because of that we should come to serve and not to be served.

well. this is the first time ive actually tried to make my pictures smaller. so we will see how fast it goes. (these are from saturday. first at the childrens home then teaching the youth choir. )


I hope that you all are having a wonderful week. also. the pictures uploaded faster than meow mix. say thanks to my brother chad. haha who sugessted that i make the images smaller. sweedish.

the sheep who like to go away from the heard but with in my shepherds sight,
Scottry~