The girls.

There have been so many things that have happened this week that I could have written every night and still wouldn't have begun to capture it.

Quick updates:

• Both kids were released from the hospital (thank you Jesus), even the one who had meningitis is now playing with the other kids and feeling just fine.
• The other girls from Go Ed that were here left early Monday morning.
• I am leaving Friday.

I've spent almost every waking hour with the girls from the center.  They all now call me "Anaka Meg."  I've grown much closer with the two girls that I wrote about, Josephine and Lilly.  Both of them have really opened up about what their stuggles are and how hard life is for them in the village.

The funny thing is that our lives are so completely different yet we are able to relate, or just understand because human emotion doesn't change by culture.  They wake up and have to walk 2 miles to get water, struggle to find something for breakfast for their young children, strap their child to their back and go to the fields where they will labor digging from 7am until 2pm.  They will get 2000-2500 shillings (a little over a dollar) to go home with and then struggle the rest of the day to try and find some food to eat or do more work to get food.

Completely different.

Yet when you get us together we just have fun and talk and cry and laugh.  On Cammie's last night we stayed in Josephine's hut with a bunch of the girls showing them the games that we played as kids.  You know the clapping ones or just the random hand games we grew up with.  We were in the middle of the game where you all sit in a circle and the hand slap goes around and whoever ends with it at the end of the song is out.  Yeah you remember.  Anyhow it ended on Josephine and she had this face that was just hilarious.  It was exactly like anybody in the states.  It just hit me then how alike we are.  I've known that this whole time but it was in that moment that it really struck me.

These girls are amazing.