I'm Thankful for Peace...keepers.
While we all await Jeff's post about what he is thankful for I thought I should write out my story about peacekeeping for those of you that haven't heard it yet...
Robert from Kampala, Uganda came to visit several months ago. He works with college students in Kampala as a lay minister and is probably about fifty. He really wanted to visit some MAP activities with me so I took him to class one day. I spent probably an hour with him before we went. I began to ask multiple questions and became very confused quickly.
Robert told me that he used to work with natural resource management and had now began his own private endeavor of peacekeeping. Do you travel? Who funds you? What does your daily job look like? I literally asked questions for an hour and he simply kept insisting it was his own private endeavor, he did travel, but that he funded himself and wore a "special" suit for visits. I have loved all of our friends from Uganda, but was honestly starting to get the strangest impression of him.
At lunch he was talking to another MAP student and I said "Robert, help me understand again...Do you keep peace in your own nation or between Uganda and the surrounding nations like Sudan and Rwanda? Why do you work by yourself again? He stared at me blankly and my friend Shibu said "Sarah, Robert is a bee keeper." Bees? I said. "Bees, not peace" Robert said. "Oh" I said.
Just another typical day in my life. :)
Robert from Kampala, Uganda came to visit several months ago. He works with college students in Kampala as a lay minister and is probably about fifty. He really wanted to visit some MAP activities with me so I took him to class one day. I spent probably an hour with him before we went. I began to ask multiple questions and became very confused quickly.
Robert told me that he used to work with natural resource management and had now began his own private endeavor of peacekeeping. Do you travel? Who funds you? What does your daily job look like? I literally asked questions for an hour and he simply kept insisting it was his own private endeavor, he did travel, but that he funded himself and wore a "special" suit for visits. I have loved all of our friends from Uganda, but was honestly starting to get the strangest impression of him.
At lunch he was talking to another MAP student and I said "Robert, help me understand again...Do you keep peace in your own nation or between Uganda and the surrounding nations like Sudan and Rwanda? Why do you work by yourself again? He stared at me blankly and my friend Shibu said "Sarah, Robert is a bee keeper." Bees? I said. "Bees, not peace" Robert said. "Oh" I said.
Just another typical day in my life. :)
posted by drivel at 4:00 PM
6 Comments:
i'm covered in peeeace!
Are you sure he wasn't a peas keeper? Or a pigs keeper? Or the keys keeper?
One time, I worked at a pharmacy and I thought the guy was asking for euthanasia, but he was really asking for echinacea. Miracle ear is what I'm asking for this Christmas
he likes chitlins too sarah.
Funny stuff like this never happens to me.
Pea keeping is a dangerous job. I once snagged my jacket on a pea plant. I'm never going back there.
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