uganda!!!

Gs its been a crazy week! I am in uganda..and I'm doing this on my phone..
Tuesday my kids took their English final!! Every single one of them passed!! I am so proud of them! Feel like I am actually effecting their lives now!! Now that I can see it!
After school teddy sent me off to nickies house... And the school guard carried my suitcase on her head..it was so cool!
But I got to nickies house but noone was there. I say there for about 3 hours... No one showed up. And I can't call anyone here. Started freaking out. And then through a number of circumstances my bags got locked in this house with someone I don't know! I hadn't eaten all day.. Ha I just started crying. These little kids saw me crying and they went and got their dad. Ha ha. He was a pastor and brought me into his house... He let me use his phone and I called teddy... App she was suppose to call Nickie when I left the school ha. Nickie hurried over and pampered me... Since I had sat in the sun with no food for like 4 hours. She made me the best and simplest meal I have had here. Their fench dries are amazing!
Anyways stayed there... Her family comes and goes a lot. Her cousins who are like 10 and 8 were there and of course they loved me. The little boy gave me a beaclet... Ill keep it forever!! So cute.
Then three of us ... The older girls ha. They were both like 24... But who cares. We decided to go out! So I put on the nicest clothes I brought... Getting ready... Made me miss america. I didn't bring anything nice and I just felt gross... But again made me ralize how blessed I am... Even here I am so blessed!
Dinner was fun!! White people were there!!
Nickie and her cousin were talking about how much they hate African Men... They say all they want is to spoil your life... From their stories it sounded true. Ha so sad. They sad even the pastor I met cheated on his wife with the maid because she didn't have birth control and he would t give her money to go get it... So she wouldn't give him sex for one night. That's ridiculous!!
Then we went to nickies coinsins house to spend the night...

Woke up... Got ready and went and caught the bus.

Spent the next 11 hours traveling to kampala. I love love love driving here. I stared out the window the entire time... The hills... Oh my word the raw life this place holds!!!
Huge fields with one person and I hoe.
Weird huge birds... Really scary roads... Weird trees. It was amazing... That is where my heart longs to be. Outside of the city... Raw pure untouched life!
Crossing the border was intersting... You walk like a mile and then get back on the buss. Ha
Then I was in uganda!!! Instant happiness.
Uganda is a different kind of beautiful.
Some horrible roads! Swevinh left and right avoiding huge holes.
Ha by the way... We pee in holes here... In a lot of parts of Africa. That was a big adjustment for me... Ha.
Long long long trip. Saw more amazing things when I can describe!!
Now I am in uganda!!!!!! In the capital with my new best friend! Oh I couldn't be happier. Met her family..sweetest people ever!! Very effected by the genocide... It breaks my heart... Even in uganda families are torn apart.
By the way I don't get to take a real shower after all. Their water isn't running. Oh well. So much for that. This place... You can't get your hopes up much or you will get let down. Ha
They made me an amazing dinner... Well for africa. I'm getting used to this more I think.
I called my mom and found out we are having problems getting my ticket chaged. Unless I get.a note from a doctor saying that staying here would cause me extreme depression or anxiety then I have to pay like 2000 more dollars to go home early. I was so tired and I just started crying. If I had my work I would stay and be good. But I don't have the money to pay for my house and food in rwanda... Not now that I lost the money though. I know people could send me money but I would go crazy! There is nothing for me in rwanda... All the schools are out... Karen is leaving and Nickie will stay in uganda.
I'm just yielding to gods will again though... If he wants me tp stay after all then he will open up a door for me.
But its funny because nickies uncle is a doctor... In kampala... Easy for him to write a statement saying that as a minor... In a foreign country... Alone... With no job... That I would be extremely anxious.
If I was in rwanda it would be really hard to get that... Because they don't speak English well enough... Butt here I am in kampala... Where English is a main language... And ha he is a family friend! God is funny.
So I got to sleep in today!! Nickie came and got me and she had breakfast all ready! Eggs and bread and meat. Ha. They thought it was weird that I had water with that... I just won't risk the milk here.
Then I had a sponge down. It was more plasnt here... They have a better system for it. Ha.
Uganda is so rich compared to uganda... Still poor... But they are much better off than rwandans.
Got ready... And finally felt nice! Oh how good that felt. And Nickie has her car here!! Which died on us later. Ha but it was fun. Driving around with her. Exchaning my money. The us dollar here is so so so good.
We drove into the city and shopping here is so fun!! But oh my word its so hot here! Too hot for my jeans and shirts and closed toed shoes!! We shopped for a bit... Everthing is so cheap for me... But I just got kind of frustreated... Shopping with Nickie isn't exactly fun. I don't like shopping when the other person isn't looking also. Feels like pressur. And she kept picking up things I didn't like... We have very different taste. Ha
She didn't want anything...
But I just felt pushed... I think she doesn't mean to be pushy... But she is. In a way that tries to be caring... But isn't. Ha just try and let it go over my head. Even with money... I paid for the mechanic... She didn't ask she just took the money. Which was in her wallet. But it was a weird feeling for me. She paid me back without me asking. But it is just a didderby culture. In America you don't tell people to do things... You don't use their money as your own.
Then she asked me to pay for her gas which I did... But its just weird. I'm glad that she asked for that one at least ha!! Ages very sweet.. Its just how things are here.
They are very caring and giving in a different way... I have plenty of money here though.
Oh I'm spending the money I have because my mom called me and told me not to go to the doctor because she is working with the insurance company to get me home for cheaper... For a simple chaning fee. Couple hundred dollars. Money that I saved for my trip and left in america... So I hopefully will fly home on the 28th... Its cheaper then the 25th. And I would be alone.
That gives me a couple of extra days in rwanda... Say goodbye to teddy... Go to a coffee farm... I can spread some things out a little. Oh I hope that works. I just don't know what I would do here... I didn't come to Africa to shop or relax... If I am to stay ill prob come back to uganda and stay with Nickie... They offfered me food and housing for free!! And I'm sure I could find an orphanage or something. Is invisible children head quarters in kampala??
Either way...i want to please god! Stay or go!!!
I had a milk shake! And some ice cream! Something sweet felt so so so good!
Uganda is so different. Feels more like home... Prob because no one stares at me! Few Americans... But still no one stares! They still call to me and blow me kisses or try and grab my arm... But I've learned to deal with that... And that's only in the busy shopping areas.
Me Nickie and her mom are going to dinner tonight!! And tomorrow I shall get my hair plated... And then go see the land Nickie bought to someday build an orphange on... She wants me to help hee. I love uganda and maybe I will someday!! When we both finish school.
Nickie told me all about her life today.
Hard not to cry. Lost her father in the genocide and than her mother dissaperered. She lived with her grand parents... Thinking she was an orphange. Her mom eventually came back with money.
That's a very short version.
Anyways. I am excited for the beach... Ha ha and we are going dancing tomorrow night. Ha ha ha ha
This is a mini vacation for me. Ha ha then.next week I will be refreshed and will poor everything I have into those children!!! There is your update!!!