buss ride

Here I am... Sitting smooshed on this huge buss driving from uganda to rwanda... Like a ten hour drive. Ha I'm getting used to long drives... Plane rides. I love them actually!!
Its so so so beautiful here. I could sit and stare out the window the entire ride! That's what I did on the way here.
I don't really want to leave uganda. I'm so fond of it. It feels like home... I mean I'm still using a hole in the ground for a bathroom and a bucket full of water for a shower... All of that stuff. That's just something that's normal for me now. But it feels like home... I fit there. Its confirming my call there. Yesterday on the beach. I stood in the dirty water up to my knees with my little dress blowing in the wind and my toes sinking in the mud... The sun setting on this huge lake... Man made boats floating in the distance... The smell of uganda... Teenagers that are about to graduate laughing and playing down the beach... And my friends behind me enjoying the music being played. And I just felt... Home. Its nothing like America... But its home. Every moment I was there I felt at home... People speak English... People my age... A place with a family that treats me as their own. I'm going back...
Everytime I get sad about leaving god just wishera in my ear saying ill bring you back. My heart is here! So he better!! I look at Nickie and I can see hope... I see the 8 uncles and dad and friends that she lost... I see little orphange Nickie... Meeting her mom for the first time since she was two... Pushing herself through school with a drive to be successful... I see her heart when she talks abou the land she bought that she will someday build an orphanage on... I know she is a huge part of why god brought me to Africa. Its funny because if I had come later or earlier... If I hadn't worked at the preschool... If I hadn't gone over to teddies house that one day... I never would have known her. I wouldn't have gotten to uganda. God has perfect timing. When I was in America he promised me uganda... And I didn't even have to try to make it happen!!! Ha.
And now god had opened so many doors for me in the future there... A place I can always return to... Friends... Companies. Home. And now my family and I are going to help Nickie come to America and get her masters degree. An orphange in uganda... Getting her masters degree... Its possible!! And she wants me to help her with her orphanage... I want to I want to!!
Its funny because Nickie was praying for a way to America... Or even just a friend who wouldn't take advantage of her... And I was praying for a friend my age and a way to uganda. God is faithful!!!
He supplied me with the extra money to fix her car so she can get a Job and start saving for america... Money that I could not have spent if I stayed in Africa another month.
When I said goodbye to the family this morning they acted as if I had blessed them with so much... While they were the ones who housed me and fed me. And brought me home.
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Yesterday at the beach Nickie and her friend and huston were sitting with our feet in the sand sharing our hardships and joys together... Them asking me questions about America... About marriage... Divorce... Dating... Everday culture... What's rude and what's not.. Money. Gosh things are so different here.
Last borns are cherished here! Wo ho I'm a last born! When a man finds you are a virgin he showers you and your family with gifts... Cause its so rare... And so much more. Its a different world.
Nickies friend and I got so close. She was so sad to say goodbye... And I was to! Its so amazing how close you can get to a person In less than.a day if you just open yourself up.
This place amazes me!! BWA. I don't really miss America anymore. I could stay another month... But I'm not suppose to.
Oh yah I changed my tickets. Ill be home on the 29th.