well hello again friends.. this is my first post since i've been in Uganda. However I don't intend on updating you on the past two weeks as that would take far too long. Here is what I can tell you. I am already a different person than I was upon leaving. I am a different person than three days ago. I am being stretched, challenged and it's all for the best. I love it, hate it, laugh, cry and sit in silence and scream at the top of my lungs on a daily basis. My roomates and I are so different, but it's so good. Since being here i've begun to take the words "fix" and "change" out my vocabulary. I can't do any of those things, nor should I. This place has immense need, that is a fact. There is a need for love, a need for a child to laugh, there is a need for compassion. There are no words that will properly describe for you what i've experienced here. Everything from Acholi women from the north doing traditional dance, to seeing a child beat in a classroom. Life is so real here, so raw. Invisible Children....wow, i've watched it again since being here, it looks just like my streets. So intense. I am going up to Kitgum which is even farther north than Gulu, from Kitgum you can see where the LRA come in from the southern Sudan, see homes that have been ruined. All of it. I leave on thursday. For those of you who didn't hear, the LRA decided to finally re-join the peace talks. We have all been living in an awkward state not knowing what is happening in the north the past week. The seize fire ran out and we've all been waiting to hear of attacks. Then this morning news came that Joseph Kony is going to the Sudan to join peace talks....talk about a relief. Also in other news...I'm going to the Invisible Children bracelet campaign office. We live just ten min from it. Rad? I think so. For those of you who didn't read earlier. I have been sick this week...no need to discuss the details, just very sick. I got a 2nd degree burn on my shoulder (the anti malarial i use makes you sensitive to the sun) annnd it got infected cause i'm an idiot and didn't take care of it. Oops. I am okay now though. I have fully settled into life here. I love it. I act like a ugandan, you will laugh at me because i speak slower/broken/british sounding english...I don't know why, but we all seem to. I wish I had the time to write everything that has happened on here, but I don't. I wish I had the words to write everthing that has happened on here, but I don't. I am at a loss for words...if you know me well you know that is ab-normal. I can't wait to come home and can't wait to come back. Life is so good. I am doing so well. I am praying for you all. Love you.
THIS little one is Nantale she is the girl I talked about in my very first e-mail. She is beautiful and I love her dearly...we play everyday. :0)
this is actually of my class room not House of Hope. As you can see from the picture it is a small small room that is split into two and the children are all but on top of one another.
This little guy is HIV+ has malaria and is malnutritioned...that stomach is fully because of sickness
This is the little boy that fell asleep on me...i didn't want to ever leave him :0(
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