Last night I could not sleep... even though i was sooo tired! i woke up this morning... very tired.
today was my first day traveling on the busses alone! everything went perfect...
i love it when i approach the school some of the little tiny kids all fun to me... they are so precious!!
I taught them how to write the alphabet today... and what sounds the letters made.
i feel like i am hitting a brick wall with them. i never know if they really understand me and what im teaching.. or if they just repeat what i say and copy what i write. oh i hope they are actually learning!!
i got some great pictures with the kids today :) my favorite kid is lopez! she is the cutest sweetest little thing! always quiet when she should be.. and smiling.. and she loves me :) she calms me down when i get overwhelmed.
after school I went to Nickies house... they had cooked me lunch. it was so nice... app the day before when the mom knew i was coming over she went out and bought all the best stuff to cook for me.... they said Beccas coming Beccas coming!! white people are like royalty here...
they were all so nice. i met frank.. and wilson... and jason. FINALLY some normal names i could understand!! they were so excited to have me. they kept pilling food on my plate... gosh i ate way too much! it was so good tho. rice with carrots and green beans in it... and this meat stew thing... and potatoes! oh finally potatoes! and some avacado. it was really good
figured out uganda stuff!!!! i am going next week!! yayayayaya wednesday through sunday.
im kind iffy to miss my classes... but if i want to go and make it worth it i have to! its only three days right? gosh im going to miss those kids so much!!
im so excited. nickie lives in Uganda and was telling me all about it. I will be perfectly safe.
things are nicer there... i can take a shower! rwanda has just been completely destroyed from the genocide... completely.. they are so poor. and they know it :(
nickie is going to take me sooo many places.. parks.. markets.. villages.. anywhere i want! and they speak english there! it was colonized by the british... so they speak english and take the american dollar! im so excited.
nickie wants me to come for 2 weeks.. or one week.
but i cant leave the kids... thats why i came...
still contemplating coming home early.
it makes sense in SOOOOOO many ways... sooo many ways. part of me wants to stay till like.. november 2nd tho.. idk. i still have time to think it over and pray about it.
Nickie told me today that her father was killed in the genocide... it broke my heart. her family doesnt even live in the country and he came to fight...
everyone seems to be effected by it...
everyone wants to be my friend! i love it so much :) and people on the streets.. sometimes.. are so helpful.
app i was standing where the motocycles pick people up... when iw as waiting to cross the street... haha someone came and helped me and explained not to stand there. im the naive american!
part of me feels like i could stay here for 6 more weeks. part of me longs for home!! WHAT do i listen to.... urg. im horrible with decisions!!!!!!!!!!!
they listen to alot of american music here... like Lollipop was playing at nickies house... haha i was cracking up....
i am just soooo exhausted. i dont really know where it came from. just hit me today... im sooo tired.
hmm dont have much else to say. im not homesick anymore. i always long for my mom tho...
and for america... america is sooo amazing to me now.
everyone here wants to go to university there... but with the exchange rate. that seems almost impossible!! but people have done it before!!
thats kind of it for now...
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Becca,
What an adventure! Take your time making your decision. Better to make a decision you won't regret, either way. And keep in mind, that if you come home earlier, we can still do things, send things to help these children from here. I'm quite sure these kids will never forget you, and you are changing and touching them in ways neither you, nor they will understand for a very long time. But looking back years from now, it will be obvious. Focus on what you can do, and then do it well, and don't worry about what you can't do. That will be someone else's mission and contribution.
And take a moment to think about this. Someone, somehow, inspired and probably helped Obama's father to find the desire and the way to leave Kenya and come to the US to start a new life. Now his son is about to become President of the United States of America. Could he have imagined this? Could the people who touched Obama's father in some way helping him, have possibly known? So your effect on just one of these kids, could be like that, the mere flap of a butterfly's wings, that changes the future forever. One of these kids, or their kids, or their grand kids, that because of you, change the world for the better.
Your spirit is so kind and special and you leave flowers blooming in your path, little one. Just trust in the power of that, and that your work will matter in ways none of us can know.
I love you so.
Dad
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