Today is surreal. It's like a normal day, I went out, walked around town etc. BUT in one hour I will be on my way to the Entebbe airport. Our flight leaves at 12:30 am tonight and we arrive in London at 6am their time. (Thank gosh for sleeping pills.) We then spend all that day (Friday) in London and on Saturday afternoon the students fly back to the States. I will be staying in England with my friend Alice for a couple days before returning to the States by myself on the 18th.
Again, I'm not ready to leave Uganda. My heart is here. But I have an almost positive possibility for coming back this summer and also for my Education Fund.
Basically everything with providing scholarships for the girls in Kitgum is going well, I now need to sort out specific logistics and find people willing to support this. I have had a great response and hope to keep working on that!
This will not be the last blog entry. I promise to keep with it at least until I get to the States. There is still a lot that I'm thinking about and reflecting on and I will certainly have time to do that here in the next few days!
Good bye from Uganda!
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Kitgum and Lost Things
I went back to Kitgum again last weekend. A bunch of people wanted to come so it was great. Also, we were fortunate to leave early enough in the morning to miss the severe punishment of house/kampala arrest that the other half of our group had to deal with for the weekend due to someone breaking some rules.
So we got to Kitgum and had an amazing time. The girls were so excited to see us and I just embraced every minute of it knowing that it would be my last time in Kitgum for a while. We did the normal Kitgum stuff: danced/played drums, hung out with the girls, played with the little kids and did other Kitgum kinds of things.
It amazes me every time I go up there how attracted I am to the area.
We had two former Go-ed students come and talk to us about how after they finished school they moved back to Uganda and started a home for street children. It was motivating to realize that they actually followed their desire to come back.
I know God has me here and I'm just hoping I follow through with that call.
Another interesting thing about my life is that I lost two items that are extremely important to me:
1. My Bible - Which I can obviously replace but this one has all my highlights and quotes written in it from when I was a baby Christian that mean a lot to me. Baby Christian means my 16 year old self.
2. My camera which I spent almost a full paycheck on and am in love with. (Fortunately all my pictures are on my computer) But I spent a ton of time picking it out and obsessing over it because it was a hefty investment.
Gr.
Anyhow it's weird that I only have a day and a half here. I'm not ready to go.
So we got to Kitgum and had an amazing time. The girls were so excited to see us and I just embraced every minute of it knowing that it would be my last time in Kitgum for a while. We did the normal Kitgum stuff: danced/played drums, hung out with the girls, played with the little kids and did other Kitgum kinds of things.
It amazes me every time I go up there how attracted I am to the area.
We had two former Go-ed students come and talk to us about how after they finished school they moved back to Uganda and started a home for street children. It was motivating to realize that they actually followed their desire to come back.
I know God has me here and I'm just hoping I follow through with that call.
Another interesting thing about my life is that I lost two items that are extremely important to me:
1. My Bible - Which I can obviously replace but this one has all my highlights and quotes written in it from when I was a baby Christian that mean a lot to me. Baby Christian means my 16 year old self.
2. My camera which I spent almost a full paycheck on and am in love with. (Fortunately all my pictures are on my computer) But I spent a ton of time picking it out and obsessing over it because it was a hefty investment.
Gr.
Anyhow it's weird that I only have a day and a half here. I'm not ready to go.
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