Quote Board

Sept 11, 2007
"Who thinks we were flying to heaven?" Jackie raised her hand, on flying from Uganda to America

Sept. 13, 2007
"I'm thankful for my six pairs of socks"
"Do we use the inside washrooms or the outside washrooms?"- Faulanta
"Auntie, push me, i want to go over there, and way up there!"- Jane, on discussing my underdogs, which are becoming wildly popular

Sept. 14, 2007
"What did you see in Walmart today?" (Jenny asked after buying shoes in Walmart)... "Fat mazungus!"- boy from choir, who was completely serious

Sept 15, 2007
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."- Anna, age 7, before putting a large piece of broccoli in her mouth

Sept 16, 2007
"Hey kids, guess what we're having for lunch? Hot dogs! I want you to think about what you think hot dogs are!" Children "oh no! uncle, we can't have hot dogs, no no no no nooooo!"
3 hours later: Terese: " I promise you, this meat is beef, not dog." "Are you sure?" " Yes, I'm sure." "Do you promise auntie?" "YES, I promise!"- Terese and a table full of kids

Sept 17. 2007
"When I grow up, I want to marry a mizungu!"- Prisca, age 10

Sept 26, 2007
"Honey, let's let these little boys finish," - American mom to her daughter referring to three of our girls

Sept 27, 2007
"Auntie, my stomach pains me... i have to poo poo."- Jackie age 7, before hunching over and moaning her way to the bathroom after dinner

Sept 27, 2007
"Are they triplets? " " NO, their just from the African Children's Choir." - A guy asked me, i responded, about three girls aged 7,9,10, and who are definitly different heights

October 1, 2007
"Auntie, faulanta is poo pooing, and i want to susu, (pee) make her stop poo poo... aun-teeee make her stop."

"Auntie! Enid is cheating! Ahhhh, Aunteeeeee, she is cheating." during pictionary when Enid kept hearing Faulanta wisper what to draw too loud to Christine, so we all could hear and then magically was able to guess first try what the picture was...

October 2, 2007
"Aye, the cookies come out of this machine?" - Harriet, pointing to a mixer, expecting the mixer to spit out fresh cookies like a vending machine

October 6, 2007
"Auntie, the snow comes from heaven eh?"- Christine

"One step to arrived.... Aye, auntie, that was more then one step."- Jackie

"We loved having 'Eunuch' stay with us. "- Lady referring to Enoch who for some reason was calling him Eunuch... uhhh... haha!

October 8, 2007
Me- During class:"So children can you raise your hand and tell me some of the good things that wind does for us." "The weend, the weend takes our kites, and eet carries them into the sky, and they fly all around!"

"There's the squeals the squeals are there! Auntie, the squeals!" (talking about squirrels)- Anna, 7

"The mountains reach the moon eh?"- Christine, 10

October 15, 2007
"auntie! the car is crying, ahhhh seee, it's crying! (When a car alarm was going off)" - Jullian, 8

October 17, 2007
"Dear Lord, please be with Auntie Jenny, her home is in the hotel, please give her a host family to live in, because she always has to live in the hotel" - Margaret, 11

October 19, 2007
"Auntie, you have your goggles on!" - Anna, 7, referring to my glasses.
- later- "Auntie, where are your goggles? they are gone! your goggles, they are gone!"

During devotions- Uncle Vic- "Kids, tell me what you think God looks like?" "A mazungu?" "His face is shining, ah! it's shining!"

"Hummer Hummer Hummer! Sarah! Sarah! Sarah! Hummer Hummer Hummer!" - Joseph, every day of my life

November 3, 2007
Faulanta- "Auntie, that is a whole story" "yes, it's all one book". "Auntie, i could never read that much! But God could! " "Could I?" "No Auntie!" "Yes, i could" "Ahhhhh Auntie! No, you lie!" "K, i'll show you, you ask me next week"

November 5, 2007
Faulanta, while praying- "Dear God, please help us to obey our aunties and uncles, and to have good penmenship."
Faulanta-"My favorite kind of vegg-e-table is the one that looks like a tree."(broccoli)

December 1, 2007
"Auntie, how do you spell auntie screechin?" "Auntie what?" " Auntie screechin!" "No, Halima, it's auntie Gretchin!"- Halima, referring to a rather grouchy host family lady, the best part was she did it by accident and didn't know what screech means

December 5, 2007
"You look like the president of who? of who? of Uganda!" "Really why?" "Because right here, there is no no no hair!"- Jackie, talking with a host family dad about his baldness

December 4, 2007
"Ahhhh, auntie! Those things, they are cutting! Ahhh, Auntie!"- Jackie, referring to my hairy legs in the hot tub

December 20, 2007
Me- Does everyone understand that story?
"Auntie, what is a virgin?"
Me- "Uh, you know how you have to be married when you get pregnant?" Class two, "Yes!" "Well Mary was worried because she wasn't married, so she didn't know how she could get pregnant."

December 20, 2007
"Is this father Christmas?" "Yes! The one we will be seeing in the mall is the real father Christmas." "Well, is there a mother Christmas?"

March 6, 2008
"Auntie, what is a honeymoon?" Crystal- "it's like a vacation after your wedding." "What do you do?" "mmmm, you just relax and have fun." "no but auntie, what do you DO?"

March 8. 2008
Me- "I wanna marry a firefighter." Hudson- "Auntie, when i grow up i'll be a fireman and then you can marry me."

July 7, 2008
Jackie (in the car, while we're listening to music)- Those are grrrreat hormones!"
Me- "what did you just say"
Jackie- "hormones"
Me- "what??"
Jackie- "hooor mooones, horr mones, hormones!"
Margaret- "Nooooo Jackie, it's harmonies!"
Jackie- "Ahhh"