crazy crazy crazy...

wow crazy week... started writing a blog yesterday but the power went off an i lost it

wednesday was my last day with my kids!! we just played all day... and i just poured my heart and soul into them... let them crawl all over me and got like hundreds of priceless pictures :)
then got a headache and got stuck at aunts house in the rain all day.. it rained 8 hours. oh my word.

thursday there was no school... just grading for the teachers and another teacher did mine for me. so i went to aunts house and got my hair plated. oh my word i was thinking like... 4-5 hours tops. 10 painful hours later its all done. at first i didnt like it :) now i love it. ha ha youll just have to wait and see.

then karen jesse and i went out for indian food! oh my word the place was sooo gorgeous.. decorated amazingly. and it was that weird scene again.. like the Italian restaurant.
in the middle of dinner the lights went off.. and these colored lights came on and the entire staff in their costumes came out banging stuff together and singing and dancing. it was for a birthday. sang in like 5 different langauges.. and danced.. for like 5 minutes. it was a treat.

friday... oh friday. i had to say goodbye to my kids :(
i think the saddest part of the day was unexpected tho.. when i was walking inbetween the school and the buss... i saw this woman... like 50ish... crawling on the ground.. next to the road. and she had flip flops on her hands and her knees must have been a mess and her feet were in the air all wrapped up. i just wanted to cry because it was so unexcpted. what can u really do for someone like that? ugggh..

then we had the big goodbye party! lots of parents .. and mingling .. and soo much playing with the kids. and lots of goodbyes :( saying goodbye to the kids was soo hard. i dont think they understood. but i MADE sure i said goodbye to lopez.. my absolute favorite. and kamikaze.
but it was so hard to get to them! because i just kept getting mobbed by kids.. no teachers were around so no one to help. ha i was attacked like never before! they basically just pulled me down. no wonder im so sore today.

when i said goodbye to all the other teachers i just fell apart. it took forever for me to get them to understand that i wont be seeing them again before i leave :( we became like a little family... they just embraced me. i miss my kids and friends soo much already! but i didnt say goodbye to teddy. she said she was going to come last night or this morning... but she didnt. she says she has something wonderful to tell me. haha no clue... when she is coming? its so weird... people are just never where they are suppose to be here.. or not never. but alot of the time. communication and getting something to come together right... takes alot of work.

i think thats alot of why im exhausted. putting anything together is just a fight... but there is also the whole sense that its out of your control so why fight it.. just sit back and enjoy the ride. the conflict of the two is exhausting.

cried the second i started walking away from the school... meh. its weird to think im done there. and ill prob never see my students again. because they are leaving that school this year and splitting up and going to secondary school hopefully. if their parents can afford it.

then i met karen at the house and we went and met chantal. now chantal runs the orphange that i was originally going to work with them i was coming here. she was really sweet.. she had a very powerful but loving presence. and she was playing some of my favorite worship music in the car.
i saw one of my favorite little girls walking when we were on the way to the orphange.

im so so so so so glad i didnt stay and work there. God knows me SO well! i could do that for like... 3 days and then i would go insane! its sooo nice. the place is huge.. so many buildings..and everything was just so nice. and the kids were soo cute and soo happy... but if i want what i would have gotten there.. i can just go to an orphanage in america... and i would have been stuck up in there. would not have met all of the amazing people i met... or gone to uganda.. and my whole trip would have been in this ONE place.
im so glad it didnt wokr out.
they are doing AMAZING things there... the kids are so smart. it is wonderful. but not what i was looking for at all.

chantal is the first african ive met who hates obama by the way... ha and with a passion. it was funny.

at dinner last night agnes and dina .. the house maids.. i guess u would call them. they bought us all 2 goat brochettes from up the street!! i was so happy. yum yum yum
it was fun.. i sat with them for like 2 hours and just talked and got to know them better. i really love the people i am living with. it feels like a family now. their stoires are so sad tho :(

now to today..
woke up SO tired. guessing from playing with the kids yesterday. just completely worn out. i think my body knew it was done with work today.. and it just decided to fall apart ha.

karen and i went to the alpha palace hotel and i treated her to a nice little goodbye breakfast. because she left today. toast! and butter.. oh yum. eggs... and fruit. oh it was wonderful.
came back and bummed around for hours.
maria finished my dress.. that was fun to try on. i love it :)
and then went to kicukkiro to pay aunt for my hair... and then went to the college of technology to meet nelson and his soccer players. oh that was soo fun! like 40 kids maybe. took alot of great pictures and just had fun.. and then it just started POURING rain. it was a funny scene again. white girl.. running through the fields with like 60 black boys in the pouring rain. ha ha.
we all huddeled in these stands for a while, ha ha ha ha. of course they acted like they had never seen a white girl before.. that whole thing. im used to it by now i guess. hm.

oh on the way to kicukiro our buss got pulled over. the police system here is random. they just pull anyone over.
on the way back we ran out of gas.
haha that was fun.

came back and said goodbye to karen and now im here :)

nelson insists i come to the alpha palace hotel where he works to work out. oh my word he will kill me!! oh gosh choices... ive gained all the weight i lost back... and do i want to exhaust myself?

who knows.
it will be weird having the house to myself tonight. weird but kinda.. nice i guess.